Panoramic of the recent House Industries Eames Gallery Exhibition celebrating the release of Eames Century Modern. Those supersized ply letterforms look fantastic.

Details from ‘The New Spencerian Compendium Of Penmanship, 1879‘. Available online with some other fantastic resource material from IAMPETH – The International Association of Master Penmen, Engrossers and Teachers of Handwriting.

Studio8 Design’s new identity for the Central School of Speech and Drama includes a bespoke typeface referencing old neon theatre signs.

Sunday saw the redesign and relaunch of The Observer. Reduced down to four sections, most of the changes can be seen in the hefty 56-page News Review and Observer Magazine. There’s some nice typographic and illustrative details but on the whole it comes across as a mish-mash of styles. As Coley Porter Bell suggest, perhaps its days are sadly numbered.

Ross Beren’s ‘Under the Milky Way‘ poster series, available to buy here.

To celebrate the release of the Eames Century Modern font collection, the mighty House Industries are holding a prizedraw for the chance to win a tour of the Eames House led by Eames Demetrios and Lucia Atwood, grandson and granddaughter of Charles and Ray Eames. All you need to do is register at House Industries.

Fantastic tribute site for American Graphic Design Pioneer Lester Beall. Timeless design and typographic work.

Commercial Type, a new type foundry started by Paul Barnes and Christian Schwartz, the team behind the design of the Guardian’s Egyptian.

Scott Teplin’s Alphabet City. A collection of 26 dream-house prints using characters from the alphabet.

Loving the simplicity of Ryan Tym’s typographic re-design of the covers for an Alfred Hitchcock DVD box-set.