MoMA Sky Umbrella. By Tibor Kalman

10 Best Web Links This Week

• Create editable letterpress styled text using Adobe Illustrator.

• How to write three blog posts a day. Geez, I’m lucky I can write one. But I’m working on it!

• John Lennon’s life in pictures. I can’t believe it’s been 30 years.

• I love this little online manual from FontShop Meet Your Type: A Field Guide to Typography.

• Will you be using more Honeysuckle, Pantone’s color of the year in your designs?

• Best invoicing practices for freelancers.

• This is the time of year I often scramble to catch all the Oscar-nominated films. Salon shares their picks for best and worst movies of 2010.

• Bruce Stanley shares his creative process for a rebranding campaign. It’s always interesting to see how other people work through their projects.

• Have you seen Helvetica A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit? It’s a must see for anyone interested in typography. And I imagine still pretty darn interesting even if you’re not.

• U&lc back issues available. The typography is absolutely superb!

xo Mary Maru