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Design Observer
www.designobserver.com
Design Observer is the real deal when it comes to high-end
design-driven discussion, and it has developed from its earliest
days into a group of connected sites. Observatory covers a vast
range of general design topics including typography. Change
Observer covers news about design and social innovation.
Places is a forum of design for the public realm. Observer Media
is home to audio and video content, and Observers Room is a
straightforward design blog.
Michael Bierut, William Drenttel, Jessica Helfand, and Rick
Poynor founded Design Observer in October . The site now
boasts a roster of contributors that reads like a who’s who of the
design world. Strictly speaking, it’s slightly erroneous to include
Design Observer in a directory of typography-specifi c sites, but
the reality is that this site should appear on every directory
relating to any sites connected to the design industry. For many,
it’s a daily read.
Easily Amused
http://johndberry.com/blog
John D. Berry is an editor and typographer, as well as the fi nal
editor of the venerable U&lc magazine and U&lc online, origi-
nally published by International Typeface Corporation ().
At the time of this writing, he is the president of the Association
Typographique Internationale ().
His blog, Easily Amused, exists as a subsection of his main
portfolio website and contains an extensive archive of well-
written and well-considered articles stretching back to May
. Though he does not post articles daily, he does go more
in depth for individual posts than the average blog. It’s rather
like reading complete magazine articles. The site isn’t over-
populated with inspirational imagery, but at least one related
image accompanies almost every article. However, this site is
much more about the text. A useful tag cloud leads the viewer
to groups of related articles by clicking on links such as book
design, letters, or signage, and previous articles are accessible
by month all the way back to the site’s inception.
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