Madrid based Sergio del Puerto, who at the start I believe was on his own has expanded Serial Cut into a larger multi-person studio. They have recently updated their portfolio with new work. Gone are the early touches of 80’s pop influence and now the efforts are more concentrated on typography and 3d. There is some very nice examples of dimensional typography in the recent updates to the body of work.
My friends at the local (local for me anyway) Boulder, CO design studio Cypher 13 have been really busy this year and continue to push their name into all the right places. They have recently released a couple of new typefaces at Hype For Type that are now available for purchase and download. One of the fonts is a geometric compressed sans-serif while the other is a play on type rendered by liquid crystal displays.
“An experimental typographic work (from Murat Pak); trying to go beyond the limits of our well known garamond.”
Digital Mash is a ‘mash’ of work from Australian (now living in Japan) graphic designer Rob Morris who is heavily influence by the ‘modernist school of design’. His sites seems a little heavy-handed in tone, but he has some nice examples of typographical layout happening within his design portfolio.
I am way into these drawn typography layouts in the Behance-folio of Serbian illustrator Nebojsa Cvetkovic. There is something retro about them that is hard to put a finger on (like you have seen them before) but they are oh-so-likeable and I would pick one up if they were for sale.
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.
Jonas Hegi spent 2 years studying at the University of the Arts in Zurich. He moved on to complete an internship at Ludovic Balland and is now interning in Den Haag at Carvalho Bernau. He is part of the motion graphic collective Les Enfants Terribles. He has some killer typography in his print portfolio. Hegi’s approach is very swiss and very inspiring to those whose tastes lean in that direction (mine have been lately).
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.“
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.
There have been some small updates recently at This Studio including this beautiful A1 promotional poster that should be available soon. This’s work has been splashed across the pages of the creative blogosphere for the last several days and for good reason, every bit of work is highly considered and the use of typography is stunningly gorgeous.
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:
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.
“Founded by Natasha Shah and Chris Hilton, Design Friendship is well just that, a friendship born through a love of design. Nat & Chris met while working together in 2003 and have been friends ever since.”
It’s a lucky thing they decided to solidify that friendship into a design firm as well because they have some absolutely beautiful work in their collective portfolio.
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.
It’s been a very very long time since I have dropped in on the portfolio of Barcelonian graphic designer and typographer Angel Sanz Correa and I was pleased to find some new and inspirational work.
Swedish graphic designer Daneil Carlsten recently left his job after 5 years at the creative collective Acne to venture out on his own. It looks as though he will do well by the measure of the wonderful work in his portfolio.
This is Tomorrow is the work of designer Martin Plonka. Martin has a BA Hons in graphic design from the academy of fine arts and design in Wroclaw, Poland. He currently resides in London and isn’t afraid to experiment with type and layout.
Pete Rossi has long sideways scroll of clean and beautiful graphic design. There is some stunning use of color and clean typography in his apt portfolio.
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.
