It's never too early to download your favorite Christmas fonts--the typefaces that keep on giving. Not surprisingly in this season known for ornamental excess (and don't get me wrong, I love it, and even did a book on artists's xmas cards), there's an excessive number of faces and ornaments available for the taking. Many of them are free; and for all your dingbat needs, check out this site as well as this one. But that's not all: More are here and here, along with something a little more traditional. Blessed are the novelty types, for they shall inherit the season.








Have a favorite of your own? Let me know in the comments.

"Okay, wiseguy, what would you do?" With those words, Frank Stanton, former president of the Columbia Broadcasting Company, challenged Lou Dorfsman, the creative director, who died last Thursday at 90, to devise a concept for the 35' x 8'6" cafeteria wall in the new corporate headquarters. Dorfsman replied, "Give me 30 seconds ..." and the mammoth "Gastrotypographicalassemblage" was conceived, subsequently rendered by Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnese (Lubalin's sketch below). The wall was dismantled after 25 years (once the "Tiffany Network" became the Wallgreen's network) and left to the termites. Recently, artist and illustrator Nick Fasciano obtained the nine panels, which are currently housed at The Center for Design Study in Atlanta, Georgia. Together with Richard Anwyl, he has mounted a campaign to "Save Lou's Wall." See a wonderful video here. And here is a great tribute by Michael Bierut.