New type: Google Fonts, Hobo Rococeaux, Johnston100 and more…

Our latest pick of new type designs and projects includes a redesign of Google Fonts, a remastered version of TfL’s Johnston typeface, an intricate illustrated A-Z by Rebecca Strickson and an ornate display face combining Hobo and Rococo lettering

Skittles gives up its rainbow for Pride

In a sweet (ahem) campaign to celebrate this year’s Pride, adam&eveDDB has stripped Skittles of its famous rainbow. Black-and-white packets will be given out to Pride supporters in London this weekend, with a monochrome float forming part of the Pride parade…

CR July issue: the future of the museum

Our July issue is a museums special, taking a look at the challenges facing cultural institutions and how creativity is helping to meet them. Plus, Jeremy Herrin, Pictoplasma, We Built This City and Missoni

Ordnance Survey maps London, 1801-style

To celebrate its 225th anniversary, the UK’s mapping agency, Ordnance Survey, has produced a contemporary map of London in its original cartographic style from 1801

Penguin Modern Poets returns

Tom Etherington, a Junior Designer at Penguin Press, is behind the look of the relaunched Penguin Modern Poets, a revival of the series that originally ran in the 1960s. Here, he reveals more about the direction for the design of the publisher’s latest poetry collection.

From the website for the Swiss Army Man film

Highlights from the web #4: Swiss Army Man; TypeVoice; HP Magic Words

A monthly selection of the best of the internet by Marieke Dekker, a strategist at SuperHeroes Amsterdam. This month Dekker examines a hilarious promotional site for the film Swiss Army Man; Typevoice, which gives you a personalised font based on your voice; and a project from HP which helps record the stories of those who can’t read or write