The 2012 Feltron Annual Report is now online.

Print copies are available for pre-order here: http://feltron.bigcartel.com

Soviet Infographics (via Seher Shah)

NYC’s SoPo (South of Power) through two lenses.

Eric Fischer (left) and Iwan Baan (right)

TK TYPE: A Not-So-Brief Explanation of Chartwell 

tktype:

The underlying architecture of Chartwell revolves around ligature substitutions. Most typefaces use ligatures to prevent glyphs from crashing into each other. A simple swap code looks something like:

sub f i by f_i;

So, whenever an “f” appears next to an “i”, the two get swapped out with a…

How Google Builds its Maps — Mind boggling to consider how many man-hours are required to map the world with this detail.