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I was really pleased to stumble upon some new type arrangements in the Behance-folio of Barcelona-based design studio Vanila BCN for Nike. Super cool and candy colored work.

written by Christopher | tags: Barcelona, Behance, Nike, Typography, Vanila BCN

Since I would struggle to do justice to the description I was sent of the Karl Otto website, I thought instead that it might be easier to just pull a quote directly from the email I was sent: “The site prominently contains the “collection” what is a library of original works by Karl Otto made available through the Internet. The collection is formed as a social instrument, working with all aspects of graphic design and should be approached as a raw material that is acted upon or used as a building material to construct a variety of expressions.“

written by Christopher | tags: Graphic Design, Hand Lettering, Karl Otto, Typography

Abi Huynh is a graphic designer originally from Lethbridge, Alberta, living in Vancouver but working (temporarily) in New York City. He is a graduate from the Type and Media MA program at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (Den Haag). He also holds a B Des Communication Design from the Emily Carr University in Vancouver. There is some excellent use of typography work in his portfolio.

written by Christopher | tags: Abi Huynh, Canada, Graphic Design, Print, Typography

There is some great typographic inspiration pumping through the feed at Friends of Type. Here is an excerpt pulled from their about section:

“Erik sent me a sweet sketch. I said, “you should post that!” He was like, “where?” So there you go. 8 hours later, at about 4am EST and 1am PST, we are Friends of Type.

We are, at the moment, alphabetically:

• Aaron Carambula—Objective Subject
• Erik Marinovich—The Big Animals
• Jason Wong—enormouschampion
• Dennis Payongayong”

The site serves as a bit of a sketchbook, dialogue and archive of inspiration for all involved. You can never have too much inspiration when it comes to typography.

written by Christopher | tags: Blog, Friends of Type, inspiration, Typography

The Daily Drop Cap is an ongoing project by typographer and illustrator Jessica Hische. Each work day she posts a new hand-crafted decorative initial cap that you can use in your blog posts. There is some lovely typography work happening as a result of her efforts. Great idea.

written by Christopher | tags: Daily Drop Cap, Graphic Design, Jessica Hische, Typography

A real gem of a site for inspiration, Typographicposters.com has relaunched with a minimal and beautifully functional interface that makes navigating the site good fun. You can spend a lot of time on the site and the deeper you dig the more you will be rewarded. There is some spectacular work in their archives.

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

Amsterdam based graphic designer Jarrik created this entire dimensional typeface by cutting and folding pieces of paper. That’s a labor of love.

written by Christopher | tags: Amsterdam, Graphic Design, Jarrik, Typography

Autodidakt is the portfolio of Göran Söderström who began designing typefaces in 2006. He has since had typeface families picked up by several foundries including Veer.

written by Christopher | tags: Autodidakt, Graphic Design, Typefaces, Typography

My friends at Cypher 13 got in touch to inform me that they have recently released a new font called C13 LCD through YWFT.

written by Christopher | tags: Cypher 13, Joyengine, Typography, ywft

Romanian designer/illustrator Alex Beltechi is doing some interesting dimensional type-as-image work. Yes, it is highly digital (and I know some folks don’t like that), but it is also expertly rendered.

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Alex Beltechi, Behance, Romania, Typography

Eye Magazine has a nice little overview of a show currently taking place at Advanced Graphics. The show is titled ‘Celebrating 20 years of New Letterpress Prints’ and serves as a tribute to the work and partnership of letterpress typographers Alan Kitching and Celia Stothard. You can read more about the show and see more of the sincerely stunning letterpress posters created for the exhibit at Eye.

Eye also has a nice little Flickr page where you can see the prints at a larger scale.

You can also visit the Advanced Graphics website to see more imagery from the show by clicking below:
Celebrating 20 years of New Letterpress Prints
Alan Kitching & Celia Stothard: The Typography Workshop
19 November – 19 December 2009

written by Christopher | tags: Alan Kitching, Celia Stothard, Letterpress, Typography

The typographical illustrations created by Jonathan Zawada for the ‘Big Mouth Project’ are just downright spectacular. You can read more about the project at Zawada’s website.

written by Christopher | tags: Australia, Graphic Design, Jonathan Zawada, Print, Typography

The Casual Optimist has posted a nice Q and A with David Pearson from David Person Design on his process for generating some truly beautiful covers for Penguin Books.

written by Christopher | tags: David Pearson, Graphic Design, Penguin Books, Typography

Tom Balchin is a recent graphic design graduate from Central St Martins. He has just completed an internship and is currently seeking either freelance or full time employment. He has some beautiful typographical posters in his portfolio.

written by Christopher

There is some really stunning calligraphy in the Behance portfolio of the talented craftsman Jordan Jelev. It is truely type as art.

written by Christopher | tags: Behance, Calligraphy, Jordan Jelev, Typography

There are numerous awesome typographical street murals abounding from the creative minds behind A Love Letter For You. ‘Love Letter is a project by Stephen Powers with the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program and is sponsored by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative.‘

written by Christopher | tags: A Love Letter for You, Philadelphia, street art, Typography

“Born in 1937 in Omaha, Nebraska, Edward Ruscha was raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where his family moved in 1941. In 1956 he moved to Los Angeles to attend the Chouinard Art Institute, and had his first solo exhibition in 1963 at the Ferus Gallery. In 1973, Ruscha began showing his work with Leo Castelli Gallery in New York. He continues to live and work in Los Angeles, and currently shows with Gagosian Gallery.

Ruscha has consistently combined the cityscape of his adopted hometown with vernacular language to communicate a particular urban experience. Encompassing painting, drawing, photography, and artist’s books, Ruscha’s work holds the mirror up to the banality of urban life and gives order to the barrage of mass media-fed images and information that confronts us daily. Ruscha’s early career as a graphic artist continues to strongly influence his aesthetic and thematic approach.”

Ruscha’s work has been out their circulating the typographical ether for some time now but has never been mentioned on this site. You can still see his influence on a lot of the young illustrative typographers working today.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Ed Ruscha, Painting, Typography

A calendar as well as individual prints created for each month from the contributing artists have been made available at Lifelounge from this year’s Some Type of Wonderful. Siggi Eggertsson’s print (above) turned out nicely.

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