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How ligatures are made

by David Schwen who happens to make much more cool stuff

Sexy alphabet

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by the wonderful Malika Favre

Nice cards

All these and more at 55his.com

Times New Rope & Swing City

by Sveinn Davíðsson

Explorations in Typography

Not sure if this is terribly old, but here is a book by Erik Spiekermann and Carolina de Bartolo. Basically it's not the book itself that interests me (the layouts don't seem very practical and reading the same (?) article over and over, I don't know. I think they could've come up with more content. This is based on the first impression though, I will have to wait till the book arrives) The site is remarkably well done, it's almost like a layout app in your browser, or at least a great specimen tool for a type foundry. Here it is: Explorations in Typography

Lost World Fairs

Apparantly the typography skills of IE9 are over 9000, and to showcase them, there is a site dedicated to lost world fairs, I liked Atlantis most

TDC2 2011 Winners

These and more winners here

Spore custom type

While the type itself is not my cup of tea, it's an interesting write-up over at The Case and Point (bookmark them!)

Pay per Headline

Our favourite House Industries has launched photolettering.com where you can quickly set flashy headlines or logos and buy the vector files for like 2 bucks. There aren't that many fonts but since HI now owns the Photo-Lettering Inc. faces it will surely grow very soon. Works great on iOS devices btw

Some more posters

Typography deconstructed

Not that there would be a shortage of type anatomy posters, but this one is quite nice, and remarkably affordable, only $100 ;p

Sounds familiar

There's actually a totally unaffiliated blog at nicetype.tumblr.com, dedicated to motion typography. Well worth a visit, just don't get confused with your bookmarks ;) One nice example of their fine selection:

A Brief History of Title Design from Ian Albinson on Vimeo.