Tom Waits by Stanley Chow

This week Veer released Phaeton, my first contribution to the world of fonts. I can now attend typographer soirées. If anyone is throwing one of these anytime soon, send me an invite. I’ll wear my “I like my punctuation well-hung” shirt.

— Kevin Cornell (illustrator for A List Apart, among other things) recounts his experience designing a typeface with Randy Jones.

(via Cameron Moll)

(via freshphotons)

Ah, yes … I always forget how to do this one.

walkwhilereading:

This is the only official illustration of Holden Caulfield, printed in Collier Magazine in the 1945 Christmas Issue. Apparently JD Salinger had started writing what would end up being The Catcher in the Rye some 10 years before the books official publication. [via]

“Characters for an Epic Tale” letterpress print by Tom Gauld

“Complexer” by Jasper Rietman

“Portraits,” by Eiko Ojala

A wall of Chris Ware. (via walkwhilereading)

New Yorker cover by Chris Ware (via chriswilliamsdesigns)