2009 was a year I’ll never forget.
I married, honeymoon’d, moved to the south coast and even bought a Volvo estate. And I already know that 2010 will be another record breaking year for me.

Wishing all my readers a happy and prosperous year ahead. I am looking for bigger and more challenging projects in 2010 and am available now! So if you are (or know of someone) looking for a creative with a decade of experience please do me the favour and pass my details on.

For those of you who missed it last week (like me) the BBC is repeating the documentary of Stephen Fry and the Machine That Made Us - it’s on again this Friday (25th Apr) at 9pm on BBC Two.

Stephen Fry goes in search of the story behind the first media entrepreneur Johann Gutenberg - the man who invented the printing press – to find out why he did it and how. The story combines both historical enquiry and hands on craft and technology. It is through these practical trials and tests that Stephen demonstrates the brilliance of Gutenberg’s invention and brings the man and his machine to life.

I’ve had a look around and you can catch it again on the BBC iPlayer and TV Replay on your set top box, as well as five parts on YouTube.

Nice poster by these people

I came across an excellent article whilst over at the wonderful ilovetypograhy. A very talented chap named Mark Simonson is creating some unique typefaces you just have to check out. One that particularly impresses me is the delicious Kinescope - a 1940s brush-style script inspired by hand-lettered titles in the Fleischer Brothers’ Superman cartoon series.

The typeface is extremely edible, straight away it looks tidy and refined, but it’s only when you unwrap the entire item that you appreciate the fine-mixing and special ingredients thats gone into creating all the alternate characters. (Super special alternate characters are used to connect neighbouring character strokes at all times – traditionally a problem that plagues script typefaces.)

I couldn’t resist but buy it for my collection, at just $29 per bar and sweet as candy itself.

Lovely lovely old posters over at Blanka - all of which I can’t afford. If anyone is feeling charitable – my birthday is in July.

I found myself at a wonderful new blog today - ilovetypography

Read on to see Helvetica v Arial in a face-off!, web type that doesn’t have to conform to the standard 4 faces and “Type Sundays” where you too can make some potato type examples.