To say that a lot happened this week is the understatement of the century. On top of the normal curve balls that life sometimes throws, I attended rainy rooftop parties in penthouse apartments, visited the Highline, did some design work for the Wall Street Journal, made a massively long trek by foot to the Financial [...]

• The New York Times’ T Magazine often comissions artists to create their own interpretations of its logo and is sharing some of the standouts of 2009. • Font War: IKEA fans are fuming over the iconic furniture chain’s switch from a customized version of Futura to the homogenized Verdana typeface. • 50 logos using [...]

Usually, we only see the final outcome of a designer’s work. We’ve been taught to show the end result in our portfolios, glistening in its perfection. Often, viewers don’t see the in-between stages, the multiple rounds of work, the blood, sweat, tears and sleepless nights that went into getting a piece to its final state. [...]

Here are some more of my favorite pages from the now shuttered Blueprint Magazine. In every issue they’d do a themed spread in a classifieds section style and I thought that these two pages were particularly good. You can view all of The Typofiles scans on Flickr here.