Winners of the 2026 Doug Wright Awards

From the Doug Wright Awards website.

Here are the winners (in bold) of the 22nd annual Doug Wright Awards which were given out on Saturday June 6 at the Arts & Letters Club in Toronto.

The History of Graphic Design: 1890-1959

Rom Amazon.

History is a complex business. Fortunes boom and bust, empires wax and wane, and change whether social, political, or technological has its winners, its losers, its advocates, and its enemies. 

Through all the turbulent passage of time, graphic design with its vivid, neat synthesis of image and idea has distilled the spirit of each age.

"Selected Works" by Barbara Klunder

 From Barbara Klunder's Facebook page.

Barbara Klunder has just self-published, in a very limited edition, a selection of her work.

Divided in 14 Chapters, the book contains a few stories of the times as well as paper-cuts, illustrations for the BamBoo bar on Queens street in Toronto, posters, book and album covers as well as fonts design. 

Donald Trump’s Handwriting Is Now A Font Called Tiny Hand

From Fast Company.

Although he’s known for his incessant tweeting, an interesting fact about Donald Trump is that he doesn’t really use computers outside of his iPhone.

Although he aspires to lead the most technologically progressive nation on Earth, the Republican presidential hopeful has admitted he didn’t own a computer until 2007.

Mike Parker, Godfather of Helvetica, Dies

From Fast©Design.

Mike Parker, a legendary typographer, type designer, and historian who is perhaps best known for his work giving the world Helvetica, died Sunday night. He was 85.

Drawn 2005-2013

John Martz on Drawn.

Drawn in 2005.

Mirror Alphabet

A very beautiful ambigram from Thomas Haller Buchanan's Pictorial Arts blog.