Letter by Letter: An Alphabetical Miscellany

TI is a font fiend, having great love for both the classics from Arial to Zapf Dingbats, to those insane new forms the likes of M &M/Paris keep coining. If you are passionate too about the shape, size and scale of the lettering you encounter in your everyday life then you must read Letter By Letter. Designer/calligrapher/artist Laurent Pflughaupt painstakingly traces the history and structure of each and every letter of the "Roman" alphabet. It may sound boring on the surface but visually the book is inspiring and invigorating and telegraphs the idea that evolution is implicit (and inevitable) in all creative human endeavor.

Chewing gum on a scanner. The Situationists would have applauded

We've all been there and TI adores the inventiveness of this. Meet 'Chewing' font, developed by stretching chewing gum on a flatbed scanner and redrawing the outline. Designed for the publication In/visible it makes me want to invite all those young designers out there to email me me some more invented fonts.