Recently, Allan Haley, director of Words and Letters at Monotype Imaging Corporation, visited with Delgado Community College’s typography class to share some of his, and Monotype’s, type and font wisdom. Haley was also responsible for the generous donation of a full Monotype  font library that was auctioned as a fund raiser at the 2012 AIGA New Orleans chapter “ADVANCE – Creative Review & Resource Day.” Monotype is one of the largest and oldest font development companies in the world.

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This week, the curators of Felt & Wire Shop are taking an opportunity to give back to the community with the charity: water collection. Charity: water works to

bring clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations around the world. The profits from each product in this collection are being donated to their important cause. Learn more about charity: water here. [MD]

[Ken Carbone] When does a visual cliché become an enduring symbol? Everyday. Clichés can be painfully banal, but contemporary graphic design is rife with them, and for good reason. The evolution of a visual cliché often has noble beginnings in art: A masterpiece or monument seen as ground breaking can be so beloved and celebrated that it is then overused, obvious, and regarded with disdain.

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The curators of Felt & Wire Shop are celebrating the arrival of spring with cherry blossoms. This week’s Find, the Sakura Ni Poster, was designed by Polygraph to honor this year’s 100th anniversary of the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C. This limited edition run of 100 unique posters are screen printed by Fire Studio. Also, 50% of all poster sales are being donated to Bread for the City, a D.C. charity that aims to supply food and clothing to residents in need. Buy a beautiful poster and support a great cause. [MD]