It’s almost Labor Day. We’re sorry to bring it up but after that, autumn isn’t far off. The weather ought to be cooling down. The good thing about this is that you will have more fashion opportunities and get to accessorize. Maybe you’ll need a scarf to keep you warm for instance. Little factory has that covered for all you chilly typophiles. They have three different typographic neck-warmers for you to chose from – Uppercase, Lowercase and Numbers are all represented.

Marion Bataille has produced a pretty fantastic looking book called ABC3D. Its a three dimensional pop-up book mixing papercraft, typography, graphic design, and fun. There is a preview video up of her own hand made proof of the book in action and the book itself is already available for ‘preorder’ though is out allegedly in October of 2008 from Roaring Book Press.

Mark Liberman has done a bit of investigation into the history of typographic censorship (or ‘bleeping‘ as he calls it). It is a very different thing than taking a black marker to text as a tool for censorship. Typographic bleeping involves the replacing of one character with another to abstract or obscure offending words. Anybody who bought a hip hop cassette in the 1990s is well familiar with this trend.

This is an ancestor of the post-modern typographic abstraction found in much of today’s graffiti murals. Glyphs are transformed to create a duality of semiotics between language and image. Peacay has done a nice little write-up on a great subject which is often overlooked and sorely in need of further documentation particularly some which contextualises this work to what we see today in typography and graphic design.