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Call for Entries: Finding Forte

Fonts in Use

Forte in use for a shop sign, spotted by Tom Koch in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Reißberger’s typeface consequently appeared on shop signs in Mumbai, food packaging from Singapore, and manhole covers in Palermo. Detail of the growing gallery on the Finding Forte website , with some of the first finds of Forte in use.

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Is It Art, or Is It Type? What We Learn When Language is Built, Not Written

Eye on Design

As Robert Smithson wrote in a press release for a 1967 exhibition of language-based art (which he famously described as consisting of “Language to be Looked at and/or Things to be Read”) at the Dwan Gallery in New York: “Here language is built up, not written.” exhibition view), 2019. Chloë Bass, How much of love is attention?

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15 Illustration Portfolio Websites That Are Brimming with Talent

High on Design by Wix

Her illustration portfolio’s homepage combines these very different locations into a thumbnail display, using the Wix Pro Gallery. New York-based Brian Cronin has illustrated for publications such as The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal and Time, alongside his personal paintings which have been shown in various exhibitions worldwide.