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There is some really nice hand-rendered type in the portfolio of Paul Coors.

written by Christopher | tags: Graphic Design, Illustration, Paul Coors, Typography

The Some Type Of Wonderful09 Exhibition will be held at the McCulloch gallery in Melbourne from 22 – 25 October, 2008

If you’re in the area drop down and have a beverage or two and get up close and personal with the final individual artworks on the opening night:

THURSDAY 23 OCTOBER
FROM 6 – 10PM

McCulloch Gallery
8 Rankins Lane, Melbourne

Featured Artists:

Alex Trouchut
Merijn Hos
Jesse Hora
Si Scott
Hellovon
Merda
Timba Smits
Puzle
Justin Lee Williams
Niels Shoe Meulman
Steve Espo Powers
Luke Lucas

download flyer for more details

written by Christopher | tags: Exhibition, Graphic Design, Some Type of Wonderful, Typography

The talented Matt Burvill has made a seizure-inducing update to his website ‘House of Burvo‘. It appears he is now focusing his energy more on converting his site into a font foundry since as he explains on his site, that was his first love.

written by Christopher | tags: Graphic Design, House of Burvo, Typography

A little about Handmade Font:
We are an Estonia based design company HMF (HandMadeFont). It was founded in 2008 by Vladimir Loginov and Maksim Loginov.

We spesialaze in developing of unique, untraditional fonts. We take inspiration from everything that surrounds us. On this website we offer completed fonts that You can buy and use freely. We recommend You to buy the whole collection. In that case, it will save You an essential amount of money and will expand Your potential in visualizing Your own projects. Developed fonts are of such a high standard that they can be very widely used, from a business cards to an outdoor advertisements.

written by Christopher | tags: Graphic Design, Handmade Font, Typography

There is some really tasty hand-drawn lettering in the portfolio of Jon Contino.

written by Christopher | tags: Brooklyn, Graphic Design, Jon Contino, Typography

You could literally spend a couple hours looking through the work of Post Typography and every minute would yield some sort of inspiration. Their work is just that good.

About Post Typography:
“Originally conceived in 2001 as an avant garde anti-design movement by Nolen Strals and Bruce Willen, Post Typography specializes in graphic design, conceptual typography, and custom lettering/illustration with additional forays into art, apparel, music, curatorial work, design theory, and vandalism. Their work has received numerous fancy design awards and has been featured in such publications as Ellen Lupton’s Thinking With Type and D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself, The Art of Modern Rock, Metropolis magazine, Taschen’s Contemporary Graphic Design, and Phaidon’s Area 2. Post Typography have appeared in numerous design and art exhibitions, and their posters are collected by high school punk rockers and prominent designers (whom they consider equally important). Strals and Willen currently teach classes in design and typography at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and have lectured at the Cooper Union, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, and Harvard University among others.”

written by Christopher | tags: Graphic Design, Post Typography, Posters, Typography

Nice typography in the Behance portfolio of Pablo Abad.

written by Christopher | tags: Behance, Graphic Design, Pablo Abad, Typography

100% of the cover price of this book goes to UNICEF’s Myanmar (Burma) Cyclone Children’s Appeal in the wake of Cyclone Nargis that hit Myanmar on 2nd May 2008. It’s already sold over 700 copies and it is for a good cause so if you can spare the dough, pick it up and feel good about it.

Contributors: 2×4 Adam Hayes Alan Dye (NB: Studio) Alexandre Bettler Angus Hyland (Pentagram) Antoine+Manuel Ben Freeman Ben Parker (MadeThought) Bibliothèque Cartlidge Levene Claire Warner (Browns) Domenic Lippa (Pentagram) Daniel Eatock Daniel Lock (NB: Studio) eBoy Eike König (HORT) Experimental Jetset Farrow Fernando Gutiérrez Fuel Hector Pottie (Third Eye Design) Henrik Kubel (A2/SW/HK) Hi-ReS! Hyperkit James Goggin (Practise) James Greenfield (BB/Saunders) Jeremy Leslie (John Brown) Jerome Rigaud (Electronest) Jessica Helfand (Winterhouse) Jon Dowling (SEA Design) Jon Forss (Non-Format) Julian Morey (abc-xyz) Lionel Hatch (The Chase) Matt Simpson (Stereo) Michael C. Place (Build) Michael Johnson (Johnson Banks) Mogollon Nick Bell Paula Scher (Pentagram) Paulus M. Dreibholz Pixelgarten Ralf Metzger (North) Simon Earith (YES) Spin Stefan Sagmeister The Designers Republic Why Not Associates Wim Crouwel Zak Kyes Zamir Antonio (Eat Sleep Work/Play)

written by Christopher | tags: 50 Designers' Current Favorite Typefaces, Myanmar, Unicef

The amazing typographic wunderkind, Alex Trochut has updated his portfolio with yet even more tasty pieces of delicious typography. Amazing.

written by Christopher | tags: Alex Trochut, Graphic Design, Typography

As much as I love both typography and art, I am a little ashamed that I have yet to have written about Sam Winston. No one combines art and type like Winston. He has recently updated his site with new work and there are some really amazing pieces of art in his portfolio. It belies the imagination how difficult it must be for him to do some of his arrangements. The piece I chose to show is an example of one of his drawn pieces but the really amazing stuff in his book are the arrangements with small type. There is just so much detail in them, I didn’t think posting an image of them would do justice. Please do visit his site to see how with time and patience you can create art out of something most people would never think to use.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Sam Winston, Typography

There is some nice typography at Argentinian Watafak. Notice the r completing the e above, nice. I am curious though, is Watafak like some kind of one word version of what the…well you know.

written by Christopher | tags: Argentina, Graphic Design, Typography, Watafak

YWFT is onces again sponsoring this year’s TypeCon 2008 in Buffalo, New York. TypeCon is the leading conference in America on all that is type. YWFT is also curating a poster exhibit at TypeCon. They are currently seeking the best poster work that has excellent type. Type can be the main focus of the poster or minor (that seems a little strange). They will be showing the best submissions and the poster show will also most likely be traveling like their last TypeCon poster exhibition. They are currently seeking as many submissions as possible.

Download the submission PDF here

written by Christopher | tags: TypeCon, Typography, You Work For Them, ywft

Smashing Magazine likes to, on occasion gather together a massive archive of inspiration and spew it out into one ginormous blog post. They recently clustered together some of their favorite recent examples of bold and experimental typography. You will notice if you frequent Changethethought often, that I have covered several of the designers that are mentioned. It’s a great source though to have them all in one huge post and you can find some really spectacular work in there.

Thank you Smashing Magazine.

written by Christopher | tags: Graphic Design, Smashing Magazine, Typography

Andreas Pihlström has a new type foundry entitled, Subtype. There are only a few typefaces available so far with more in the works I am sure, but what is there is very well done. There are also a couple freebies that are worth the download.

written by Christopher | tags: Andreas Pihlström, Subtype, Type Foundry, Typography

I am sure if you trawl the internet as much as I do you have stumbled across Jonathon Yule’s (AKA INVDR) fontbots. They are robot-like characters comprised of Yule’s favorite fonts. The bots are made of Akzidenz Grotesk, Helvetica and Futura which I would dare say are probably the favorite fonts of many a designer. They happen to be my favorite fonts as well, along with Lubalin Graph and Avant Garde.

Jonathon Yule is currently a resident of Ontario, Canada and seeking commission for freelance work.

written by Christopher | tags: Fontbots, INVDR, Jonathon Yule, Typography

It’s obvious by their website that Amsterdam-based graphic designers Richard Niessen & Esther de Vries don’t really design websites. What they do is create really great print work with an especially notable amount of attention given to typography and color. Their site is tough to look at and a little daunting at first to try to figure out where to click but once you start, you will be rewarded by some really stunning layouts.

written by Christopher | tags: Amsterdam, Graphic Design, Niessen and de Vries, Typography

How do you choose typography when asked to solve a design problem? It’s a tough question that plagues a lot of young designers and usually takes some time and experience to begin developing a sense of what is appropriate and what isn’t. Personally, I either custom create or modify a lot of the typography that I use. I do have my stock of favorites though that changes based on time and trends but there are a few permanent residents including the obvious like Futura, Helvetica and Berthold Akzidenz Grotesk.

I Love Typography ran an interesting article titled, ‘On Choosing Type’ on the subject here. I found some of it very useful and think it is an article that offers up some great pointers for aspiring designers on a difficult-to-master topic.

written by Christopher | tags: I Love Typography, On Choosing Type, Typography

Fonstruct is apparently still in beta mode but it is an exiting new idea that I am sure will quickly gain popularity amongst the design and typography crowd. The site offers an online application that allows users to construct their own font. After building your font you can then save and download it in a zip file. The application allows you to preview and tweak the kerning of the letters as well. It looks like it could be really cool. I have wanted to work with a font application for some time now and have never gotten around to purchasing one so I may give this a try. It’s a great resource for any designer and probably a good study in typography in terms of the experience. You can also view and download the creations of other users.

As I said, it appears to still be in beta mode but if you consider yourself an early adopter, you can go to Fontsruct now and try it out.

written by Christopher | tags: Fontstruct, Typography