Author Archives: ianl

Brand new Cooper revival out as of 5 minutes ago! http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/wordshape/cooper-highlight/ Cooper Hilite Complete is a complementary set of two fonts- Cooper Black and Cooper Hilite. Either typeface can be used alone, or as a stackable, multi-colored set.  The history … Continue reading →

Jonathan Ive, Apple’s senior designer (iPod, iPad, iTouch, et al) likes the YACHT logo so much that he and the Apple design team dropped some free custom laser-engraved iPods on the YACHT team last week. — plazm blog has moved … Continue reading →

I wrote a 10,000 word essay called “Heft, Gravy, and Swing: The Life and Times of Oswald Cooper” for the latest issue of Idea. The essay serves as the definitive biography of the Chicago type and lettering designer, famed for … Continue reading →

I’ll be exhibiting a number of illustrations drawn for the recent Blunt Mechanic CD on Barsuk Records on February 13th at the Sakura Gallery in Nakameguro. The exhibition is an all-day art party and exhibition, running from noon until 10pm. … Continue reading →

My latest print project, a double poster set called “Poster Initiative 004A” will debut at Grasshut in Portland, Oregon in the show “Staying Put”. The show opens tomorrow, February 6. The show is a collection of prints from folks such … Continue reading →

Clobber Grotesk Bold is a new typeface just released via MyFonts. It was one of a two-part family originally designed for a metal-cutting business, as they were seeking bold letterforms for their custom aluminum furniture that would be readable at … Continue reading →

Just released via MyFonts, my latest typeface release is the definitive version of Oswald Bruce Cooper’s great lost typeface Cooper Fullface Italic. At the end of 1927, Oswald Bruce Cooper yearned to create a heavy “modern” face- akin to Broadway … Continue reading →

Two new font releases on MyFonts this week. The first is the definitive version of Oswald Bruce Cooper’s classic typeface Cooper Italic. 1924 saw the release of Cooper Italic, the italic companion to Cooper Oldstyle. Cooper Italic possesses “a most … Continue reading →

Last chance to sign up for Typography 101 at Temple University Japan. The course has been expanded to include designing custom typefaces and programming digital fonts from them. — plazm blog has moved to http://blog.plazm.com — — plazm design studio: … Continue reading →

Clobber Grotesk Stencil Bold is a new typeface I designed now available through MyFonts. Clobber marries crude stencil forms with extreme legibility/readability at small sizes. — plazm blog has moved to http://blog.plazm.com — — plazm design studio: www.plazm.com — — … Continue reading →