Humble Bundle in collaboration with Magix is back at it again - this time you can get hold of both Vegas Movie Studio 15 and the professional video editor Vegas Pro 15 Edit for only $25, and for this price are additional software such as the effect pack HitFilm Movie Essentials included.

I bought the Magix/Vegas Pro bundle last year and was really happy about it. Since the Vegas Pro 15 includes a much better looking interface in comparison to version 14, and the built-in support for using 3D LUTs, I'll get this deal as well.

Film director Ingmar Bergman was a frequent writer of notes. To celebrate Ingmar Bergman's 100th anniversary, Bergman's characteristic handwriting has been made into a web font.

For over 60 years, Ingmar Bergman wrote everything – from entire manuscripts to passing thoughts – by hand in his yellow notebooks. To commemorate the centenary of his birth, we have created a font based upon his handwriting. Add a touch of drama to your everyday life by having Bergman write your grocery list, a greeting to grandmother or a shout out in social media. […]

Try it out for yourself here, but be aware that what you'll scribble end up for all to see at the left side.

Via Swedish Television. H/t Feber (SE).

IWLTBAP has released on their Facebook page (no need to login) yet another great free 3D LUT for color grading your images and video footage – a cinematic LUT inspired by "Blade Runner 2049".

If you're interested in logo design, take a few minutes to watch and enjoy designer Aaron Draplin when he creates a timeless logo.

Inspired by infrared photography, IWLTBAP has released a set of 55 unique psychedelic color grading presets. Five of these LUTs can be downloaded for free here, a pack that also includes bonus LUTs.

The image below taken by me during a trip to Falkenberg, Sweden, earlier this summer is graded with the LUT Choweed. Looks like a Polaroid, don't you think?!

The short documentary "Roadliners" is a documentary about the occupational group that is responsible for roadmarkings. Watch a day in the life of Glasgow roadliner Thomas 'Tam' Lilley as he creates some nice street typography.

Via Notcot.

Font retailer FontShop's website The 100 Best Typefaces of All Time lists like the site name says, 100 high-quality licensable typefaces that have been selected by a jury of international experts.

FontShop's selection differs from other typeface charts because it is both subjective and as objective as possible. By incorporating its own sales figures and various bestseller lists from the past ten years (see "Scoring Criteria" below), FontShop ensured that the users of the nominated typefaces also had input into the selection. The subjective element was provided by an independent jury of international experts. On the basis of the "commercial" pre-selection they were able to eliminate fonts, nominate others, reorder, veto and up- or downgrade. After several rounds of this, everyone had agreed on a list of the top 100 typefaces.

The 900-page coffee table book "Beyond the Wall: Art and Artifacts from the GDR" by Justinian Jampol and published by Taschen, features over 2500 items from the the Wende Museum's East German Collection.

This encyclopedic volume features over 2500 items from its extraordinary collections. Never before has a book included this full a spectrum of art, archives, and artifacts from socialist East Germany: official symbols and dissident expressions, the spectacular and the routine, the mass-produced and the handmade, the funny and the tragic. Packaged in a slick, portable box, the book also comes with a facsimile of a GDR family scrapbook, documenting real and imagined travels both within East Germany, and across the border.

You can order the book on Amazon here.

H/t Umbrella Magazine.

In this short video by Coleman Lowndes, the amazing and time-consuming colorized photography work done by colourists Jordan J. Lloyd, Marina Amaraland, Mads Madsen, Dana Keller and Patty Allison are being looked at and the amount of research that is done to make these photographs authentic.

The following Swedish travel posters come from the coffee table book "Come to Sweden : reseaffischerna som charmade världen" (The Travel Posters That Charmed the World) by Jens Vagland and Michael Tjelder. Vagland and his team run the company Come to Sweden that offers vintage Swedish travel posters and additional related products such as notebooks and postcards.

"Have a Good Time" poster by Inga-Greta Solbreck-Möller, 1952:

"The Midnight Sun Hotel, Lapplandia, Sweden" poster by Gunnar Nordgren, 1948:

"Svenska skidspelen, Nässjö, Stockholm" (The Swedish Ski Games) poster by Kurt Netzler, 1955:

"Scandinavian Airlines System" poster by Staffan Wirén, ca. 1960:

"Wintersport in Zweden" postcard by Hjalmar Thoresson, 1938:

"Sälen och Transtrandsfjällen" (The Transtrandsfjällen Mountains, also known as the mountains of Sälen) poster by Gunnar Nordgren, 1953:

"Im Hohen Norden, Schweden" (In the Far North) poster by Olle Skrede, 1940s:

Image credit: Come to Sweden

Jane McDevitt has collected and compiled a large number of Eastern European matchbox labels from the 1950s and 60s that you can view on Flickr. Below are a few samples:

Moskau Grotesk is a beautiful typeface created by designer Björn Gogalla that is based on the work of East German graphic artist Klaus Wittkugel and the lettering display he created for the restaurant Café Moskau in the 60's.

The Café Moskau, across from the Kino International on Karl-Marx-Allee in Berlin Mitte was one of the prestige edifices of the former DDR (German Democratic Republic). Built in the early 1960s, it advanced over the years and changing social developments to a trademark building of the capital. The lettering display on the roof was created by the graphic artist Klaus Wittkugel (October 17, 1910 – September 19, 1985). He had been Professor at the School for Applied Arts in Berlin, and, in addition to the creation of many posters, book covers and postage stamps, he was responsible for the signage of the Kino International as well as for the complete graphic treatment for the Palace of the Republik.

The signage for the Café Moskau with the words »RESTAURANT«, »CAFÉ«, »KONZERT« and »MOCKBA« set in capital letters, becomes the basis for the Moskau Grotesk which was developed by Björn Gogalla in 2013. This face should not be seen as an imitation. A few shortcomings were »fixed«. In favor of maintaining the core characteristics some unique features were, however, not relinquished. Lower case letters and the missing capital letters were designed from scratch. It is not surprising that the plain, unassuming geometrical direction of the basic character style forms a bridge to the architecture of the 1960s. Inspired by the then favored, diverse possibilities inherent in the architectural example and wall reliefs, two complimentary pattern fonts emerged.

Featured image: A man and two women modelling clothes in an oil refinery in old East Germany taken from the photographic exhibition "Colour for the Republic: Commissioned Photography on Life in the GDR" (2014) by Martin Schmidt. Via Deutsche Welle.

Here, presented by Vox, a short story about the great typeface Futura.

Via Holy Kaw.

The vector graphics editor Illustrator came out in '87 and made the job so much easier for designers, that prior to its release had to work with time-consuming and difficult techniques.

The short "The Adobe Illustrator Story" produced and edited by Ami Capen outlines the program's history and is wonderfully edited with archived magazine articles and TV segments, an absolute delight to watch.

In this short presented by the Great Big Story, typographer Vincent Connare talks about how he came to create the font Comic Sans that was pre-programmed on 90s versions of Microsoft Word.

In 2014, Connare wrote a statement defending his font after The Sydney Morning Herald met criticism for having used Comic Sans on their cover.

I must admit after having seen this video, the font doesn't look too bad when incorporated with illustrations.

Via Boing Boing.

I appreciate the illustrative work of freelance illustrator Alex Williamson, who is based in Bath, England.

"The Great Santini" for Atlanta Magazine:

"Russian Doll Kit" for Stanley Post Production:

"Fair Isle" for National Trust Scotland:

'Spies' for the New Yorker:

If you're a fan of vintage business cards, this Flickr group will give you ample inspiration, but not overwhelm you.

And when you're done looking on those, why not look through some of the vintage business cards that were used by the people responsible for building America's nuclear program in the 60's and 70's.

Featured image: Via Flickr user Alan Mays.

It was a rather difficult task to select only a few of the American travel posters made by the Anderson Design Group for this post. Such a great collection!

These posters can be ordered as art prints, canvases, metal signs, notecards and postcards.

New York's Central Park: Early Snow by Shelby Rodeffer and Joel Anderson:

Cincinnati, Ohio by Michael Korfhage:

Chicago: Lakefront by Michael Korfhage:

Santa Fe: Print Shop by Andy Gregg and Joel Anderson

The Don Thomas Poster Collection consists of vintage airline posters that was donated to the San Diego Air and Space Museum by Mr. Thomas who was an aircraft memorabilia collector.

Sudan Airways:

Air France French West Africa poster:

British Airways Concorde poster:

Air France North Africa poster:

Sell Aviation poster:

If you're a designer or a blogger that want to create designs that remind of the colors of India, design magazine Rudecolor has put together a nice color guide for you entitled "2016 Color Trends Forecast for India".

You can download the pdf here.