Rolling Stone Logo

MyFonts April issue of Creative Characters features typographer Jim Parkinson, who designed (among other things), the logo for Rolling Stones Magazine. The profile touches on at least a dozen other successful typefaces all originally produced for magazines or other clients which are now commercially available to download.

I just discovered ‘The Die Line‘— a super charged blog that features a tasty look at package design. They just ran a feature on japanese food packaging… all of it very playful and color driven. It’s fantastic and nothing i wouldn’t expect to emerge from the japanese. I visit japanese markets a lot and the one thing i’ve noticed is the kind of care that goes into wrapping each piece of food or beverage.

Even household products like cleaning supplies and solvents get the royal treatment, a BIG change from the way we brand our food in America. Has anyone even bothered to look at the slow decent of Smart Start Cereal from clean and polished typography too… utter rubbish? (Read THIS! and tell me you don’t see a difference) I’m telling you, if this trend continues we’re all doomed.

Fresh new book cover designs for Dante’s Divine Comedy.
Designer Nicole Peterson says:

“I wanted to create a set of book covers that did not use images from the Bosch Hell painting, or any images of Dante and Virgil that are normally found on covers for the Divine Comedy.

I was inspired by Dante’s use of mathematics and architecture in describing Hell, Heaven and Purgatory. I employed simple geometric shapes and color to represent these places, while still keeping the design simple, and allowing the reader to use their imagination when reading these vivid poems.”

Closes-ups here, here, and here.