Hasta La Ideas

If Simon Garfield‘s book Just My Type isn’t already on pre-order or included somewhere on your wish list, then it’s likely that you just hadn’t heard about it. The book, which tells the story of typefaces, typographers, fonts, and everywhere in between, was a fairly substantial hit in the UK (how many books about type can say that?), and as of September 1st, will be ported over into a US version, with a new forward by Chip Kidd. Our pals at Pentagram just released a book trailer for the US edition, directed by Naresh Ramchandani and Michael Bierut (the latter of whom also blurbed the book):

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