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Daily Features
By Anne Quito, Superscript November 21, 2013

Kyle Bergman, founder of the Architecture & Design Film Festival, offers his insider picks for the best design movies of all time. More...

Daily Features
By Anne Quito, Superscript November 14, 2013

Centenary of the French author's influential work, In Search of Lost Time, celebrated with readings across New York City. More...

Daily Features
By Anne Quito, Superscript November 12, 2013

New book, Shady Characters, offers insight into the secret life of everyday punctuation, typographic marks, glyphs, and symbols. More...

Rare & Beautiful
By Anne Quito, Superscript November 5, 2013

Rediscovering the work of American graphic design pioneer Clarence Hornung with rare modern book dealer Randall Ross. More...

Daily Features
By Anne Quito, Superscript October 23, 2013

 The nation's preeminent film festival for architecture and design wrapped up this weekend in New York, offering a glimpse of what's in store for events in Chicago and Los Angeles. More...

Daily Features
By Anne Quito, Superscript October 17, 2013

The award-winning graphic designer updates his monograph, Things I have learned in my life so far, with diary entries artfully rendered in everything from bananas to neon lights.

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Daily Features
By Anne Quito, Superscript October 9, 2013

With work ranging from Saks Fifth Avenue shopping bags to temporary tattoos, the designer and typographer has released a new monograph including candid notes about celebrated creations and rejected proposals. More...

Daily Features
By Anne Quito, Superscript October 8, 2013

Call them typenuts or typochondriacs, a growing number of typography enthusiasts are looking to the everyday visual landscape. More...

Rare & Beautiful
By Anne Quito, Superscript September 25, 2013

Honey & Wax Booksellers talks about the photographer Walker Evans’s personal copy of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” testifying to a special connection between two titans of American modernism. More...

Daily Features
By Anne Quito, Superscript September 18, 2013

From the Yahoo! logo redesign, to the strategic serifs on the Obama campaign mark, to rejected proposals for the Whitney Museum identity, branding war stories were at the forefront during this all-day event. More...