Smashing Magazine

Interesting Stuff, never thought of that before.

Im about to format a 40 page product presentation document in indesign/acrobat. Anyone know of any good resources for inspiration on professional (corporate style) typography and layout for such use? This post is good but not what i need for my project. :) Thanks

What a list, very much inspiration…thank you very much!

Thank you!!! some real Eye candy the Nintendo cartridge cd is amazing.

Thanks for yet another great post. Keep up the good work!

Interesting, and beautiful, but I wish people would avoid using all capital letters in print media (and digital). The worst sin in typography, IMO. Legibility is far better without it.

Isn’t this beautiful??

thanks!! for posting this… i really love your page…

Meh.

very inspiring article…

One or two are great, some have interesting concept but I agree with barbarianbob, the bottom ones are really hard to read… and some concepts are overused.

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Impressed! Keep going on!

visual orgasm…

Generally, this is a good post. I’d like to question some of the stuff that are on the board though: while they may look cute on paper, the legibility and message is kind of… well, lost. A number of artworks up there aren’t even legible… and we are talking about PRINT here. Too much flourish, and function is completely out of the picture. So what’s the point of that second poster by Official Classic? Why did they use those cutesy, indistinguishable block letters? Or is making the readers lost the new thing in Print?

Shouldn’t Design be a balance of aesthetic and functionality?

Great Post!

BTW can anybody provide some link where I can learn about the anatomy of book cover designing

Great post,
thank you.

Ps: why don’t you post an inspiring article for a ‘serious’ typography exercise (e.g. health education…)

Most of em are sg like, shit onto a pianino and call it art….. ROFL

the list is way too long. make a selection first please

Thanks, some cool typefaces and layouts to experiment with!

Lots of Beauty :)

gosh… some of those graphics are absolutely smashing =)

Is there a good book someone could recommend on typography for the web?

Thanks

NorthK

I mean damn, what’s not to love about typography!! Great post! Great inspiration!

yup, boobies – finally some print stuff! keep it coming

inspired….. salute to your collection.

This is good stuff.

fantastic.

I am always inspired by print design.

Not really a great selection. There’s life beyond full caps sans serif typefaces, although even the best exponents of those styles are missing from this list. Neville Brody? David Carson? Herb Lubalin gets a mention, but only in the context of someone else’s work – let’s see something from the man himself.

This might be the face of the typographical zeitgeist but it’s wide of the mark in terms of being even a basic overview of good print typography.

Yes, Yes, and yes again!
great selection, with some really great works.
Would love to see more articles like this! Thank you.

Excellent..Inspirations…!!

Good collection of different styles, also some very cool fonts!

this stuff looks so repetitive. I’m so tired of huge capitalized letters stacked one word on top of another floating over a neon gradients or pics of outer space. People need to quit ripping each other off. For great design that looks unique look at karlssonwilker.

Where the hell can you learn to make so wonderful layouts. Did all these designers study it somehow?

awesome collection

nice

What the hell is this?
Experimental school work, or ego show? 70% of the staff above are just crap, communication disaster.

i love typography, so so sweet ooooooooooooooooooahahah!!!!!!!!! love

Readability was/is/will be the most important thing ever!

Most of the prints products here are unusable.

Who else than people in the graphics industry will sit in front of this and try to read the text?
Everybody will give up after 2 sec.