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Kern and Burn is a fantastic new project from Jessica Karle Heltzel and Tim Hoover focusing on the business of design. Their 100 Days of Design Entrepreneurship blog (currently on Day 58 — and counting) features conversations with design entrepreneurs like Armin Vit, Allan Chochinov, Khoi Vinh, and many more (Gratuitous Type among them!). Earlier this week, Kern and Burn launched their first Kickstarter campaign to generate funds for a K&B book — a worthy project well-worth a look (and a few bucks!). 

Nice blog of vernacular French signage. (via @kupfers)

Neal Fletcher is a self taught type designer currently in his 4th year at the University of Central Lancashire’s Graphic Design program. Neal’s strong portfolio includes several quirky typefaces (Elega, Bino, and Decani among them), all of which are available to download. Score!

From the Post No Bills Flickr Pool.

The Walker’s design department blog is awesome. It’s pink, it’s set in Apercu, and it’s full of interesting tidbits from the makings of the organization’s great catalogs and exhibitions. Case in point: this new post of kitschy cool image research for their fantastic catalog From Here to There: Alex Soth’s America. 

Display is an online resource for modern graphic design publications and ephemera curated by the Brooklyn-based design studio Kind Company. 

An online collection of LP stereo banners. (via Very Short List)

When reading a physical book is just too easy, there’s Books2Barcodes, a site that offers some of literature’s greatest works for download via thousands of QR barcodes. The project was created by Wonder-Tonic (Mike Lacher), who’s got a fantastic portfolio of equally nonsensical work, like The Geocities-izer (transform your website into a Geocities page circa 1996), Cage Flix (add every film from Nicolas Cage’s oeuvre to your Netflix queue) and parodies of celebrity gossip rags, like this and this.

What a lovely blog concept from Craig Wills. Twenty-Six Types collects beautiful letters, which are handily recategorized for your viewing pleasure. Browse by letter, material, type category, color, and more.

There’s been lots of love on the internet for Gratuitous Type recently, so I’d like to say hello to any new followers who’ve joined us through another blog post. I’d also like to thank those who’ve covered the magazine recently, it’s been a thrill to see it appear on some of my favorite blogs ever. Some recent GT-related posts: MagCulture, It’s Nice That, Quintatinta, TypoJungle, Swiss Legacy, and No.Zines. Awesome.

Notabilia, by Moritz Stefaner, Dario Taraborelli, and Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, visualizes Wikipedia’s 100 longest Article for Deletion (AfD) discussions. The result is visually stunning record of Wikipedia in action.