Last week, Roger, Angelique, Caleb and I took a trip to Baltimore. We visited SHAKEN, ate crab balls at Chappie’s, explored the punk rock/graffiti den known as the Loft, and visited a strip club where the stage was made out of raw plywood (because there’s nothing sexier than strippers with splinters). But most memorable of all was our tour of the historic Globe Posters. Founded in 1929, Globe produced bills for almost every soul, funk, rhythm & blues or hip-hop act imaginable. Their designs, chunks of florescent colors and typefaces are now iconic, and it was a privilege to visit Globe before it is gone. Due to financial issues, Globe closed its doors last year, but co-owner Bob Cicero granted us a special tour of the shop and its piles of original posters, hand-carved wood type and vintage print blocks. These are probably some of the last photos you will see of this amazing place. Bob estimated that Globe will be gone for good within the next two months.

—ZIO

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Created by Advertising Agency H-57 Creative Station, Milan, Italy

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Check out Lorizzle, a text generator site that generates Gangsta latin! So if you want to “gangsta up” your lorem ipsum in your designs, this site will let you generate Velizzle paragraphs for all your layouts.

The Periodical Table of Typefaces was created by Cam Wilde, the print is available for purchase.

The History of the Typewriter as recited by Michael Winslow (of Police Academy fame)

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For their May Annual issue, Creative Review tapped Craig Ward to design their cover.  What Ward came up with was absolutely brilliant, he went into a lab and worked with technicians using pollen cells to create “cell-level typography.”

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Taking a second to remember Malcolm McLaren, Friends of Type create this piece to honor him.