TypOL

Why, what, what for ? For typography and graphical related interests :

– Typography is what language looks like. (Ellen Lupton).
– I can’t explain it; I just like looking at type. I just get a total kick out of it. Other people look at bottles of wine or whatever, or, you know, girls’ bottoms. I just get kicks out of looking at type. It’s a little worrying, I must admit. (Erik Spiekermann).
– Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. (Robert Bringhurst)

iLoveTypography (iLT) may be the best online window to typography. Typocentric WebOL cannot but agree, and has a long memory while enlisting those links out of the former Lavoisy/Net 1.0 :

Typography
Typographie

Thinking with Type, by Ellen Lupton | I Love Typography | TypeSites | Jon Tangerine + WebOL/TypoGrapho

Museum Plantin Moretus (Anvers, BE) | Luc Devroye’s Pages on Typography (Univ. McGill, CA) | Rencontres internationales de Lure (FR) | Atelier Perrousseaux (FR) – Ouvrages de culture typographique et graphique | Imprimerie Nationale (Paris, FR) | Association GUTenberg (FR) – Groupe francophone des utilisateurs de TeX

Type foundries/Font distributors & libraries/Font stuff – Dafont.com | Linotype (DE) | Typotheque (Den Haag – The Hague, NL) | Emigre (US) | Myfonts | Fontshop | Optimo (CH) | Lineto (CH) | FontFont | TypeKit | Fluxus-Virus (FR) – Polices & publications non latines – Non latine typesetting and desktop publishing | 100 Beste Schriften – 100 Best Fonts | …

Helvetica is 50 years old in 2007 (MOMA, US)

Graphism
Graphisme

Muenchundmuench | Mark Porter – The Guardian, NZZ am Sonntag, Wired, … | Wieslaw Smetek – Die Zeit, Stern, Geo, Der Spiegel, … | Mario Garcia – Die Zeit, The Wall Street Journal, … | Christoph Niemann | Otto – Le Monde, The Guardian, The Times, The Economist, … | Mark Boulton | Graphisch Ontwerp – Blog de MC Doyon | Khoi Vinh | Walter Bernard | Information Architects – Die Zeit, Das Magazin, …

NAGO (NL) – Nederlands Archief Grafisch Ontwerpers | Publishers/Books – 01 Publishers (NL) – Nijhof & Lee (NL) – Arminius (SE) – Hyphen Press (UK)