Tag: World War I

• New font based on Lithuania’s Act of Independence

  Eimantas Paškonis made a beautiful new font based on the manuscript of the Act of Independence of Lithuania, passed in 1918: The whole project took more than 6 months. First of all, a high-resolution scan of the Act of Independence of Lithuania had to be obtained from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Then the person who…

  Feb 19, 2018

  # design, Germany, Lithuania, politics, Russia, typography, World War I

• The Guns of August

  I like books with spunk, and Barbara Tuchman’s The Guns of August has it. Published in 1962, it’s too old to be considered the definitive historical work on the First World War, as I’m sure more modern books have benefitted from a more widely available historical record and emotional distance from the events now a…

  Nov 6, 2015

  # Barbara Tuchman, books, review, The Guns of August, World War I