MOTH and RUST

Moving from the Sciences to the Arts It’s always interesting for me to learn about others who have moved from the Sciences to the Arts, so it was great when Taiwanese illustrator Emma Cheng appeared on one of my design news sites this week. I find her style, and use of pencil crayons, quite unique. She describes her work as “a dram...

#FlashbackFriday: Communicating 15 years of science The McGovern Institute for Brain Research is a community of MIT neuroscientists committed to understanding the brain and to applying this knowledge to improve human health and well-being. For the occasion of its 15th anniversary, an ambitious booklet was created to give current and potential support...

A typeface everyone should know → Ed Interlock: The Ed Interlock font uses “Artificial Ed-telligence to arrange letter combos for a more hand-done appearance!” exclaims its creators, House Industries. What is AI up to now you might ask? “Disrupting the type industry,” perhaps? Here is the problem: handwritten digital fonts don’t really ...

Host an event and have your organisation shine Sometimes, when so much energy is focused on the event, it can be easy to forget events are a great opportunity to showcase your organisation as well. MOTHandRUST find these three questions are useful to ask of any event design project: What event design work do you need exactly? Of course this seem...

Five ways of looking at Comic Sans Having gotten to know more about this typeface, I actually appreciate it a bit more—just for what it is! 1) When Microsoft designer Vincent Connare saw a beta version of the cartoon Microsoft Bob that used Times New Roman in the word balloons, he thought: "Comic dogs don't talk in Times New Roman....