Hi, I’m Matt Balara.I solve design problems with my head.

If you’re a designer, you’ve certainly seen it. And if you’re lucky, you’ve got a copy. FontBook, the most comprehensive catalog of typograpyh in the world. Last published in 1998, and sold out for ages, the new FontBook 4 will…

For the last two and a half weeks, I’ve worked an average of 12 hours a day (including weekends), attended hours of brainstormings and meetings, made a large stack of sketches, produced around 25 screens, spent over 12 hours travelling…

Today Cameron Moll asked an interesting question. “What were you doing seven years ago?” No idea why seven and not ten or five or some nice round number, but it’s rare that I take a moment to think back like…

For those of you unfamiliar with the history of barbarism, the “quartered” part of drawn & quartered was a punishment consisiting of four horses attached to four ropes attached to the four limbs of the punishee. You can imagine the…

In the frolicksome days of my youth, I played too much Dungeons & Dragons. The one have-to-have-it item in the game was the Bag of Holding. What appeared to be a simple leather sack on the outside was capable of…