Changethethought

Evan Stremke is laying down the typographical law with this PDF poster that is free to download and serve as a reminder.

written by Christopher | tags: Evan Stremke, Graphic Design, Rules, Typography

This is the inaugural exhibition in the newly re-located
Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography.
Herb Lubalin (1918–1981) is best known for his wildly illustrative typography and his groundbreaking work for the magazines Avant Garde, Eros, and Fact.

On view in Cooper Union’s new gallery, the installation includes recent posters, publications, and motion graphics by internationally recognized graphic designers that spotlight an emerging trend toward expressive lettering and typography.

Original sketches, magazines, logotypes, and posters selected from the Lubalin Center Archive will illuminate Lubalin’s influence on contemporary graphic design.

Opening Reception
Thursday, November 5, 2009, 6 – 8pm
The Cooper Union
41 Cooper Square Gallery [ MAP ]
This event is free and open to the public.

Exhibition On View
November 5, 2009 – December 8, 2009

Gallery Hours
Monday–Thursdays 12–7 pm, Saturday 12–5 pm
Closed Fridays and Sundays
Closed November 26, 2009–November 29, 2009

Featured Artists

• Marian Bantjes
• Deanne Cheuk
• The CW Network
• Ariel Di Lisio
• Marcus Eriksson
• Oded Ezer
• Gretel
• Jessica Hische
• HunterGatherer
• Justin Thomas Kay
• Like Minded Studio
• Brett MacFadden
• Christopher Martinez
• Non-Format
• Matt Owens
• Post Typography
• Roberto Quiñones
• Alex Trochut
• TV Land
• Herb Lubalin

written by Christopher | tags: Exhibition, Graphic Design, Lubalin Now, Typography

‘Shit hot’ is really the only way to describe these posters by Korean graphic designer Seok Jaewon. I guess that’s why they were finalists in the Chicago International Poster Biennial.

written by Christopher | tags: Posters, Seok Jaewon, South Korea, Typography

Qlocktwo by Biegert & Funk is an unusual typographic clock that displays time in 5 minute intervals combined with four-minute dots. It’s a really beautiful piece of functional art that not surprisingly will cost you a crap ton of money. So I won’t be buying one, but the pictures on the website look pretty sharp.

written by Christopher | tags: Biegert and Funk, Clocks, Qlocktwo, Typography

Non-Format has updated their portfolio yet again with more examples of their unique typography.

written by Christopher | tags: Graphic Design, Non-Format, Typography

Barcelona-based graphic designer Michele Angelo A.K.A. Superexpresso has updated with some typographical work.

written by Christopher | tags: Barcelona, Graphic Design, Superexpresso, Typography

The members of design collective/studio Happycentro include Federico Galvani, Giuliano Garonzi, Roberto Solieri, Giulio Grigollo, Andrea Manzati, and Federico Padovani. Their Behance-folio has an impressive scroll of inspirational examples of typography. Great work.

written by Christopher | tags: Behance, Graphic Design, Happycentro, Italy, Typography

There is some clever typography and illustration work in the Flickr-folio of Scottish designer Steven Bonner. Gotta love the ampersand.

written by Christopher | tags: Illustration, Scotland, Steven Bonner, Typography

Keep it complicated is the work of Sveinn Þorri Davíðsson who graduated with his B.A. in graphic design at the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2008. He’s gotten off to a strong start.

written by Christopher

Luke from Lifelounge contacted me to let me know that he has put together an exciting group of creatives for next year’s installment of Some Type of Wonderful. As opposed to my explanation, here is the explanation of the initiative from the source:

“Some Type of Wonderful is a global typographic initiative conceived by Lifelounge in 2008 to showcase the best of the world’s creative talent across the realms of art, design and illustration. Each year 12 artists are selected for their unique approach to the craft and are given an individual typographic design brief based around a month of the year. The artist is asked to interpret the brief in a way that typographically represents what that month specifically means to them. How abstract or literal the interpretation is completely up to them.

Each piece is made available as a series of museum grade limited edition Giclée prints on high quality cotton rag art paper and is accompanied by a signed and editioned STW Certificate of Authenticity by the artist. The pieces are made available through a series of exhibitions this October and online at lifelounge.com.

All of the responses are then compiled and laid out in a beautifully designed and limited edition wall calendar for art, design and typography enthusiasts to enjoy for the following year. These will also be made available through lifelounge.com.”

written by Christopher | tags: Lifelounge, Some Type of Wonderful, Typography

All I can tell you about Empty Spaces is that she is a female from Brasil who likes to experiment with typography.

written by Christopher | tags: Brasil, Empty Spaces, Flickr, Typography

C2F is designers Cybu Richli & Fabienne Burri who are based in beautiful Luzern, Switzerland. They have some unique and colorful typographic work in their collective portfolio.

written by Christopher | tags: C2F, Graphic Design, Print, Switzerland, Typography

Bulgarian graphic designer, Mihail Mihaylov has some great experimental typographical layouts in his Flickr-folio.

written by Christopher | tags: Bulgaria, Graphic Design, Mihail Mihaylov, Typography

Tom Waits classic ‘Eggs and Sausage’ is brought to life through typography by Jackie Lay. The piece was awarded a Certificate of Typographic Excellence by the Type Directors Club.

written by Christopher | tags: Jackie Lay, Motion Graphics, Tom Waits, Typography

Both Seb Lester and Electrik Sheep have gotten in touch with me about Lester’s upcoming show at the Electrik Sheep gallery. As opposed to me butchering the description from there, you can see a video of the color-changing ink used for one of the posters above and get all the details about Lester and the show below.

“Electrik Sheep Gallery Presents… Seb Lester

Electrik Sheep is proud to be hosting Seb Lester’s first solo show of exclusive prints and originals.

The Electrik Sheep Gallery, Newcastle will be showing a full body of work from Seb Lester this August including a number of new limited edition prints and originals exclusive to Electrik Sheep. These will complement a selection of his well known back catalogue of work which documents his recent foray into the world of art.

Seb is “passionate about letterforms” which form the basis for his pieces. He brings letters to life with his innovative approach and bold sense of humour. Often drawing on racy subject matter and a dazzling array of lettering styles he manages to produce thoroughly modern work that would look as good on the wall of a New York loft apartment as it would in an English country house.

Seb was trained at the renowned Central Saint Martins School of art and is internationally known for his typeface designs and illustrations which have been used by many of the world’s biggest companies and publications including Intel, The New York Times, The Sunday Times, Penguin, Faber & Faber and GQ Magazine.

Following on from other exclusive solo shows from Faile, Eelus, Eine to name a few the show will open on August 6th at 6pm with one of Electrik Sheep’s infamous street parties and an after party at the Forth Hotel. All pieces will also be released online at the same time for those of you unable to make the trip.”

August 6th 2009, 6 pm

Electrik Sheep
22 Pink Lane
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 5DW
UK

written by Christopher | tags: Electrik Sheep, Exhibition, Seb Lester, Typography

I am really loving this ornamental alphabet poster by typographer Jessica Hische today. Wish I had the cash on hand to pick one up. Beautiful work.

written by Christopher | tags: Graphic Design, Jessica Hische, Prints, Typography

Hiekkagraphics has released a new display typeface called Pale that you can find here and see in action here. The letter ‘Q’ is always one of the rocks that the typeface ship is broken upon and for what it’s worth, it’s probably my favorite character within Pale.

written by Christopher | tags: Hiekkagraphics, Pale, Typefaces, Typography

Ryan Brinkerhoff has some really nice prints up for sale at Bandito Design Co. The print above kind of made my entire typographical day and you can buy it at Etsy for only $20 bucks.

written by Christopher | tags: Bandito Design Co, Etsy, Ryan Brinkerhoff, Typography