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.‘
“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.
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.
Mihail Mihaylov sent a note that he updated his website with some new examples of his simplified print and typography work.
Evan Stremke is laying down the typographical law with this PDF poster that is free to download and serve as a reminder.
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
‘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.
Phil Yamada has added some small but notable updates lately. If you have yet to discover his work, here’s your chance.
Mike Giesser (formerly known as Neue75_Bold) has updated with both a new website and body of really impecable design work.
Swiss design duo Ronnie Fueglister and Martin Stoeckling make up Studio Sport. Having real Swiss last names (as they stipulate on their site), consequently there is some crisp typography work in their collaborative portfolio.
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.
Non-Format has updated their portfolio yet again with more examples of their unique typography.
Barcelona-based graphic designer Michele Angelo A.K.A. Superexpresso has updated with some typographical work.
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.
Damien Conrad Design is a creative studio based in Lausanne and Bellinzona. They got in touch to share their work yesterday and have some work that is definitely worth sharing.
Leeds-based design/branding agency The Consult, have relaunched their website with some clean and crisp new work.
There is some clever typography and illustration work in the Flickr-folio of Scottish designer Steven Bonner. Gotta love the ampersand.
Julien is Plastic Bionic. He is 26 and lives in Nantes where he is currently producing some attractive graphic design and typography work.
