Besides ligatures, ampersands are the most beautiful characters in typography. But did you know that the ampersand actually is a ligature? It's a combination of the Latin letters E and...
It started with a few heirloom tomato varieties. Composting was next, and pretty soon, you were a chemist amending your soil to hit that sweet 6.5 pH. Vertical farming, hydroponics,...
One of our founding members went to design school near Buffalo, NY. That's a meaningless fact, but what IS interesting is the word buffalo is a noun, proper noun, and...
Is it a treatise about the rights of citizens? Lus suffragii: The right to vote. Or is it more focused on Zen? An enlightened proletariat? Our type freak tried to...
You're the life of the party, quick-witted, dropping one-liners, self-deprecating jokes, and occasional pratfalls. Where does your humor derive from? Is there a void needing to be filled? We sense...
You've seen the meme about the girl who got the cool Asian style tattoo that was supposed to say peace but actually says General Tso's Chicken? When we're designing a...
Thermodynamically, life has been described as an open system which makes use of gradients in its surroundings to create imperfect copies of itself. Hence, life is a self-sustained chemical system...
Remember when the Gap thought they could capture a bit of that Helvetica magic with a sloppy rebrand? I wonder what happened to all the new branding they produced?Love it...
Helvetica, the most ubiquitous typeface on the planet, you either love it, hate it, or tolerate it. We owe Steve Jobs thanks for including Helvetica as a free typeface in...
Numbers, big and small....today we’re gonna count them all!Some are even; some are odd...won’t you join our counting squad!? A word or phrase that reads the same both forward and...
Scorpios are the most powerful sign in the zodiac. Even when they appear self-controlled and calm, there is a seething intensity of emotional energy under the placid exterior. They are...
We’d choose Univers over Helvetica every time – it’s crafted better, the proportions are more definite, it has a smaller x-height than Helvetica, and the base font sets a little...
