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A Revered App Designer Shares His Dream Project

Loren Brichter has made the hit apps Tweetie and Letterpress, but his sights are set much higher: Creating the perfect coding language.

This Brilliantly Designed iPhone Game Could Unseat “Words With Friends”

Letterpress, a new iOS game from Loren Brichter’s Atebits (creators of Tweetie), mixes Boggle with the ancient Japanese game Go.

Re-creating The Poster That Inspired A Beatles Classic

Re-creating The Poster That Inspired A Beatles Classic

Using old letterpress techniques, a Beatles fanatic remade the one-sheet that gave birth to one of John Lennon’s strangest tunes.

Infographic: An Entire Tome Worth Of Innovation Advice, In One Chart

Young San Francisco designer Joey Roth doles out life advice in elegantly letterpressed posters.

This Short Film About Letterpress Will Make You Yearn For An Ink Roller

What is it about letterpress that inspires cult-like devotion among its practitioners, and burgeoning curiosity among the rest of us?

“LetterMPress” App Simulates The Joys (And Pains) Of Letterpress Printing

Almost everything in a real letterpress studio is photorealistically represented, from the scratched and worn metal plates on the press itself to the wood grain on the blocks of movable type.

“Moveable Type” Offers Letterpress Classes Out Of A Truck

For some bizarre reason, I really want to learn how to do letterpress printing. This is an old-school process that requires lots of dirty, heavy, expensive equipment, but creates gorgeously tactile typography and graphics -- you're literally "pressing" the inked letters onto the paper, after all.

Wanted: Letterpress Made of Legos Creates Charming 8-Bit Prints

Geeky designers (and the folks who write about them!) love Legos, and Sam Cox and Justin LaRosa are no exception. Under their Physical Fiction aegis, these two graphic designers have put Lego to yet another wonderfully off-label use by constructing a working letterpress printer out of the bricks.

Infographic of the Day

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Innovation by Design

The Amazing Judges For Our 2013 Innovation By Design Awards

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