A Magazine About Designer Deseases
25 year old German graphic designer and illustrator Jana Rauthenstrauch just finished her Masters' degree in Wuerzburg at the University of Applied Science. This magazine is about the five commonest elicitors of designer deseases. It deals with the causes of why creatives are robbers, fellow travellers, perfectionists, denglish speakers, robbers and why they are always …
Sawdust – Experimental Typography And Clean, Clear Communication
Sawdust, an independent design duo based in London, is the award-winning creative partnership of Rob Gonzalez and Jonathan Quainton. Their approach in design has earned them a worldwide reputation for creating visually striking work that is thoughtful, innovative and meticulously crafted. The studio picked their name because of its associations with carpentry and craftsmanship: "It’s about …
‘Fossilized’ Typeface By Andreas Scheiger
"The discovery of fossilized letters brings new light into evolution of man." This might be the latest design news headline. Austrian designer Andreas Scheiger has created an intriguing ‘fossilized’ typeface that looks like they have just been excavated. "I remember that in primary school we tinkered 'our own fossil' with gypsum, leaves and twigs. With …
Free Photolettering App From House Industries
The free downloadable app Photolettering lets you create, edit and share images using fonts from world-renowned type foundry House Industries. You can take a picture or import one from your camera roll. Then scale, rotate and crop your photo with finger gestures and select your lettering style from the Photolettering collection of original House Industries …
Process Journal – Independent Journal Of Graphic Design
Process Journal ($25 AUD) is a quarterly released graphic design publication produced in Melbourne Australia. The magazine is dedicated to capturing beautiful work in print, stepping back and allowing the design to do the talking. And … the aim of the journal is to not only serve as a source of inspiration for designers and …
Works That Work, ‘A Magazine Of Unexpected Creativity’
After a year of preparation, designer Peter Biľak and his team of Typotheque foundry just released the first issue of Works That Work (digital edition roughly $11, hard copy roughly $21.50). The magazine wants to examine often ignored areas of design. As Biľak puts it, "one of the fundamental assertions of Works That Work is …
Just Add Beautiful Custom Typography To Your Photo With Over
Simply take a photo with your iPhone's camera, then add beautiful custom typography to your photo with Over ($1.99), in whatever typeface and color you choose and share them on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr & Instagram. Create inspirational or even informational images to share quickly and easily. As you can see in the image above by Sam …
Bright! Typography Between Art And Illustration
Language and text are all around us. We perceive them both consciously and unconsciously. They provide us with information, convey images, awaken desires. Typography, or the arrangement of print in a specific manner, is, for many artists, more than simply a visualization of language. Typography is a source of fascination to the creative world because …
Hand To Type – Scripts, Hand-Lettering And Calligraphy
Hand To Type (Gestalten, ISBN 978-3-89955-449-6, $55) is a beautiful compilation of hand-made and digital scripts that showcases the beauty of handwritten letterforms. The 240 pages book by editors Middendorp, Hellige and Klanten features work by some of today’s most successful and original calligraphers and lettering artists. In addition to fonts and lettering using the …
Interview: Mark Van Bronkhorst, Type Designer
MVB Fonts is a type foundry founded by Mark van Bronkhorst in San Francisco in 1991, now located on the opposite side of the bay in Albany, California. Van Bronkhorst creates digital fonts for designers, and custom fonts for magazines and corporations. PROFILE Name: Mark van Bronkhorst Age: 47 Studio: Berkeley, California Profession: Type Designer …
Typographic Chess Set
"Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency." – Raymond Chandler Typographic Chess Set (limited-edition of 50 sets, roughly $445) has been created by UK-based designer Jim Sutherlands from hat-trick design. The set is based on chess notation (K for King, Q for Queen, etc.). The laser cut pieces–ranging from …
Stylishly Destroy The Web With This HTML 5 Bomb
fontBomb is an html 5 bomb (works best in Safari), to stylishly blow up the web. Philippe-Antoine Lehoux made this wonderful Javascript/CSS experiment to transform any text on websites into bursts. To blow up other websites, drag and drop this gadget link fontBomb to your favorites bar, once it sits there just activate the countdown …
Try FontShop Fonts Directly In Photoshop
Fonts + Photo + Shop = Fontshop to Photoshop. The FontShop plugin (BETA) provides a simple way to try out any FontShop font directly inside your own artwork. The plugin allows designers to experiment with 150.000 font variations, and to show different typographic options to their clients before actually purchasing anything. If you work with …
Type For Type And Get The edding 850 Font by Büro Destruct
"An edding can write on anything." Thanks to the new Büro Destruct font "edding 850" it even keeps that promise on your computer. End of story? Quite the opposite, actually: Together with Hamburg based ad agency "kempertrautmann" and "shift" this idea is the core of a new campaign «Type-For-Type.com» for the german brand «edding» – …
Type Matters!
What does all the confusing terminology about ink traps, letter spacing and visual centring mean, and what are the rules for good typography? Type Matters! (Merrell Publishers, ISBN: 978-1-8589-4567-5, $29.95) by graphic designer and a senior lecturer (Staffordshire University) is a must-have for every serious typographer and anyone who wants to dig deeper into the …
LAIKA A Dynamic Typeface
Type has always been something static and to be honest, not much has changed in this field. Michael Flückinger and Nicolas Kunz wanted to change this and engaged themselves in this beautiful thesis about dynamic typeface. What they came up with is simply entitled LAIKA, a font that can seamlessly use the whole spectrum of …
The Serif Tote Bag
Little Factory started as a design website focusing on pixel graphics. Now Little Factory is a brand under Item Limited, offering neat design items like this fancy and neat looking Serif Tote Bag ($26). #Wishlisted ❚…
118 Typographers Open Up Their Private Sketchbooks
What could be more joyful for a designer than to see sketches of type and typography? 118 of the world’s leading typographers and graphic designers open up their private sketchbooks to reveal their creative process. Selected by the world’s most knowledgeable and well-connected graphic-design commentator, Steven Heller, this Typography Sketchbooks (Thames & Hudson, ISBN 978 …
CSS Happy New Year Code Card
Welcome to the new futura! Code Cards connect today's digital developers with the analog coders of yesteryear. This letterpress printed card has CSS code on the front which renders the Happy New Year! ($14) greeting on the inside of the card in large, uppercase, Futura text. Seasonally appropriate typography! The card defaults to a basic …
Good Design Is A Tough Job
All that is gold does not glitter? Well, Good Design Is A Tough Job (Hermann Schmidt Mainz, ISBN 978-3-87439-827-5, €39,80) and at the same time good design can change the world! Who doesn't search for the twenty golden rules for agency success? Strichpunkt has won in the last ten years over 500 international design awards …
Work Hard and Be Nice to People
The “Work Hard” woodblock poster (edition of 200, signed in pencil, 51 x 76cm, $120) by Anthony Burrill made my day. The poster is printed by Adams of Rye onto 100% recycled paper using traditional woodblock printing techniques. Printmaking is an important part of Burrill’s practice and he creates limited edition prints with slogans including …
Write a Bike by Juri Zaech
We already tweeted about the typographic bikes and we noticed that just that tweet made a huge impact and we thought we should archive it on our website. Swiss Art Director and currently Paris based Designer Juri Zaech turns frames into names with his "typography" bikes for design minded people. The concept is to bent …
Osaka Station Water Clock
I know I'm a little bit late on that, but this amazing water art is still making a splash at my monitor. Osaka Station City features a dot matrix water clock that shows the time as well as beautiful graphics, all with drops of falling water. I wonder how many people missed the train or …
