This ‘Words to Work By’ poster set created by agency Publicis Mojo is simply brilliant. It’s the holy trinity of good concept, good design and strong typography merging in a triple kick-punch-leg-sweep.
You can read all about it at Creative Review.
There is some really great use of typography in the gig posters designed by Chicago-based Nadine Nakanishi and Nick Butcher of Sonnenzimmer. They are very different from the normal gig-poster fare and it’s nice to see a departure from that scene (although I do love me some good ole old school crazy drawn gig-posters).
Via FFF.
Jónas Valtýsson emailed last week and I didn’t have time until this morning to write about his updated portfolio. He has some really great work in there including the amazing typographical poster above created by photographing splashing milk. It’s been making it’s way around the blogosphere for good reason.
Thank you for the email Jónas.
Well this will no doubt be blanketing the blogosphere today, design/typographical superheroes Non-Format updated today and the star of the show in their portfolio, no doubt, is the front and back cover of their last art directed issue of Varoom Magazine. The cover was done by their new BFF, Alex Trochut who has completed some really great work under the tutelage of Non-Format. Don’t get too excited though, the update is fairly small but as always the work is hugely fantastic.
I know I have seen the work of Chow Martin before but can’t seem to find any posts regarding his work. Regardless, there is some really fantastic black and white hand-rendered typography and illustration to be found in his portfolio. Really fantastic.
Do yourself a favor and go pick up one of these Neighborhood posters from Ork.
Matt Keers wrote in to let me know that he has updated with some crispy clean new work. I really like what he is doing. Serious graphic design talent.
David Rager can be found living, working, designing and riding his bike in New York. Oh, and there is some really great stuff in his portfolio.
Updates in the portfolio of Willowni and wow do I dig the cover shown above for Page Magazine. My undergraduate program was heavily influenced by the Bauhaus and I still consider a big part of my education as founded in the philosophy of the Bauhaus.
James Griffin is offering a free hi-res download of his font ‘Cloak’ at Font Lorry. It’s a pretty slick looking alphabet developed in 3D. I threw together the little layout above just to help you visualize it’s creative potential. Get down on it.
“Cloak was developed for a project that never came to fruition. At first it was only a few letter-forms. It lay dormant for a few months until James re-discovered it and decided to make it into an complete uppercase character set. Cloak is loosely based on the folds and forms of black material. It was produced using 3D rendering and photo-manipulation.”
There is some clean and rock solid design work in the portfolio of Ultra Studio.
Wow, there is some red hot type and illustration work in the Flickr-folio of Amoeba 84. Inspiring work for sure. I am loving it all.
There is some tasty work in the portfolio of Figure Studio. I love the stylized portraits.
There is some really nice design for print in the portfolio of Chris Killeen. I saw his work on several blogs last week and spaced posting it. I also really like how he has chosen to display his posters (wink).
The typographical illustration work of Sarah King is absolutely insane.
I redsicovered the strangely compelling graphic design layouts that looks classic but feel fresh from Markus Mrugalla today. I wrote of his work back in October but think he may have updated since I last dropped in.
Pomme Chan updates with some really fresh typographical illustration work. There is some really great experimentation happening there coming straight out of the inkwell and right from the graphite tip.
Alexander Meyer has some really nice, crispy and clean work in his portfolio. There is some great use of color and type.
