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A picture page with many great lettering examples. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
1920s and 1930s in Travel Ephemera
| Travel brochure and travel poster lettering from the 1920s and 1930s, art directed by David Levine. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
A list of links to good free clean legible fonts collected by someone in Edmonton. Well, with a few exceptions like Linotype's Helvetica Neue... Here is that list: Ambrosia Anivers, Asenine, Aurulent Sans, Babel Sans, Bastardus Sans, Bebas, Bitstream Vera Mono, Blue Highway, BPReplay, Cicle, Decker, Diavlo, District Thin, Dustismo, Engel Light, Enigmatic, Eurofurence, Eurofurence Light, Existence Light, Fertigo Pro, Florence Sans, Folks, Forgotten Futurist, FranKleinBook, Futura Light, Geosans Light, Gill Sans, Gnuolance, Graublau Web, Grutch Grotesk, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue UltraLight, Howie's Funhouse, Josef Pro Light, Lacuna, Lane Narrow, London Between, Mammagamma, Mandinga, Mank Sans, Mean 26 Sans, M+ Light, Museo Sans, Myndraine, Myriad Pro, Myriad Pro Condensed, National First, Nevis, Nuvo OT, Pakenham, Perspective Sans, Petita Light, Phoenix Sans, Print Clearly, Puritan, Qlassiuk Medium, Sansumi, Santana, Schul Vokal, Secret Code, SF New Republic, SF Old Republic, Soul Papa, Steelfish, Steiner, Stentinga, Street, Tall Films, Tradition Sans, Trebuchet, Walkway, Weezer, Y2K Neophyte. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Great examples of type on posters and photoshop examples. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
400 Logos
| Ludwig Gatzke's collection of 400 logos of web companies. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Examples of simple but elegant or surprising typographic posters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2012, while studing at Type@Cooper under Jesse Ragan, he published the beautiful angular typeface Marais. Site dedicated to Marais. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Great letterer and poster designer in Brooklyn, NY. Home page. I particularly like the music poster Peephole (2009) done for the Peephole Band. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the (painted) illustrated caps called Growing Power (2011). Images: i, ii. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
PDF files of hundreds of fonts that are used in Academic Computing Labs. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Students at the University of Leeds (UK) who made a nice Bodoni poster in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Adam Polselli prepares guides to various looks in design, including color palettes and appropriate font choices. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aerosyn-Lex Mestrovic
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Krakow, Poland-based designer of some innovative logos in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Flickr page by Agence Eureka, which has scanned many lettering books from the art deco era and the immediate post-war era. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Udine, Italy, who touched me with her beautifully lettered logo design La Tetta di Giulietta (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Giza, Egypt-based designer of the typographic poster Scream (2013) for the movie by the same name. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer from Alexandria, Egypt, who created a typographic poster in 2013 entitled Girls Rule. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Egyptian graphic designer. Creator of a typographic donkey (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Eskisehir, Turkey-based type and graphic designer, who created New Old Rounded (2010). Also, check out his Snell Roundhand poster (2010). Another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Great graphic designer from Valencia, Spain. At Behance, she showed a trendy blingy smoky New York typographic poster (2009). In 2010, she made an equally good poster for Berlin. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Seattle, WA-based graphic designer. Creator of a beautifully lettered mural design for Killer Infographics' new office in 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Poster artist, whose lettering on this poster from 1922 inspired Nick Curtis to make ToonervilleNF. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Guttenberg, NJ-based creator of a few fun typographic posters based on quotes from the main characters in the show Mad Men. I especially like Remember Don, when God closes a door, he opens a dress (2011) and I'm not a solution to your problems. I'm another problem (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Located in Colombia, SC, Aldrena made a few nice typographic posters in 2010, illustrating faces such as Rockwell, Optima and Mrs Eaves. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Bogota, Columbia, who created Minoria (2012, hexagonal). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Buenos Aires-based illustrator and designer. He created a nice sketchy poster called Hecho en Latino America (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alessandro Segalini
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Alex Trochut's lettering must be seen to be believed---it has to be genetic transmission. Recurring themes include adorned initials and modular types. His numerical all-caps alphabet for British Airways is phenomenal and pushes the bling-bling to the fashionable extreme. Stunning dollar sign drawn by him in 2007 for Acido Surtido. In 2009, he published Neo Deco at HypeForType. Noteworthy type treatments of that year include Nixon and the Futurecraft logo. In 2012, he designed Trojan Font (like Trajan). He also did some stunning multiline alphabet for V Magazine. Also noteworthy is a swashy calligraphic logo for Wiz Khalifa and Atlantic Records. Behance link. Debutart link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Designer and artist in Bergen, Norway, who made a remarkable typographic poster called Le Muée (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Romanian graphic designer who has some interesting type posters such as Bancophone (2009) and Necro (2009). He lives in Bucharest. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Timisoara, Romania, who made a colorful and intricate typographic composition in 2013 entitled Liternictwo. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alexandra Clotfelter is currently attending the Savannah College of Art&Design in Savannah, Georgia. She created the typographic poster Occupy Wall Street (2011). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Sao Paulo who designed a beautiful set of hand-lettered posters on the theme of Jimi Hendrix in 2013. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator from Athens who made some fun type plays in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Digital artist in Tagil, Russia. He creates innovative geometric alphabets and has published great typographic posters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Saudi Arabian, b. 1988, located in Jeddah, who created the interesting Face Typography poster in 2008. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic design student at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville, TN, 2010. Illustrator. Creator of a Grid Alphabet (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Palma de Mallorca-based creator of a nice typographic collection of posters entitled Carteles Leo Bassi (2011), which mix the Western circus poster style and art nouveau elements. Typefaces created by er include the paper cut face Diplodocus (2011), and the octagonal typeface That Tune (2012). View her Y Modaba poster (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A wonderful vintage Italian ad mounted on the wheels of a bicycle. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
British graphic designer who made this poster of eyes in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alexandria, VA-based creator of the 3d typeface Mondo Condo (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alphabet trucks
| Eric Tabuchi has photographed trailer trucks on empty highways, each bearing one letter of the alphabet. His set of 26 trucks is perfectly uniform in scale and composition and lighting. His home page, where other alphabet series can be found. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic design and hand lettering on the Internet. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alphan Typefaces
| Roberto Baldassari highlights the faces used in "Space: 1999": Countdown (an LCD font by Esselte, 1965), Data 70 (another LCD font by Esselte, 1970), Futura Black, Microgramma, and Futura Medium. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Barcelona-based illustrator. Look at the informal lettering in her posters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
An on-line tool in which Amazon book covers are used to typeset sample words. Nifty. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Amondo Szegi
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A weekly series of inspirational posts in the field of typography from Hangaroundtheweb. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brazilian designer in Campos. Her work includes many nice typographic posters. Flickr stream. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brazilian graphic design graduate from IADE, Portugal (in 2011), who is now located in Glasgow. Creator of Pinho (2010), a modular face made from nuts. She also made Hardcopy (2012, for the Hardcopy magazine). As an example of her typography in branding and logos, check out the work she did for Galeria Barbara Longhi in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and illustrator in Moscow. Creator of a colorful type poster (2009) for a children's book based on Futura. From it he derived a painted-look version of Futura (2009). Home page. Another URL. Another typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
YouTube video about the parts of a letter. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Roman brand designer Andrea Laureti's Stop The Oil logo (2012) is full of visual typographic punch. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer who works typography into some of her work, such as this Baskerville poster (2010). Behance link. She lives in Kansas City. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brazilian illustrator, b. 1987. Creator of the old map script face Separaçao Script (2010). Smelly Cat typographic poster (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andreas Gustavsson
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On his page, Vienna-based Andreas Scheiger shows several interesting illustrations from The Evolution of Type. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer based in Athens. Graduated from AKTO / Middlesex University London with the Higher Diploma of Education in Graphic Design. In the electronic vibe / futuristic category, Andreas Xenoulis's Elasma (2012) stands out---perfectly designed on a square spacing pattern, it evokes techno music like no other font. His silkscreened Bodoni poster (2011) is also worth a try. In 2012, his identity design for Pinka Cybernet Architects uses a rounded squarish techno face, Orbitron. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Branding director in Braunschweig, Germany. His typographic work in Type Sex with Durex (2010) is remarkable. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dafont link. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Barcelona-based creator of the typographic poster La Mano Larga (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andrew Dick was born in 1983 in Victoria, B.C. Canada, and is a selftaught artist who currently lives in Fukui, Japan. He is inspired by DADA, surrealism, the Cobra movement and naive art. He uses colored crayons and pens, paint, black ink, stamps, collages etc for his simple shapes, lines and new interpretations of old masters. His oeuvre includes several interesting sets of cats and critters done in 2007. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at the Savannah College of Art and Design, majoring in Graphic Design. Creator of a nice typographic art deco poster in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andrey Yushchenko
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Adeliade-based creator of a faux mag cover Arkitekt (2013) that balances photography and typography just right. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Vienna-based graphic and web designer. In her work, I found one interesting typographic example, FontBot (2009). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer. She created the display typeface Penguin (2012) and received a Creative Summit award for the packaging design for Kikkoman, in large part due to the effective use of a fantastic custom typeface. She also created the board game Typopoly in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brazilian visual artist who did some beautiful lettering pieces in 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Anna Coutinho from Porto, Portugal and Mariana Almeida (from Angra do Heroismo, Portugal) designed a great codex-style logo for Formatos Design in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nantwich, UK-based designer of Helvetica Shadows (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Anne Lee (Anne Lee Designs, Minneapolis, MN) created Summer Alphabet (a set of capitals---not a font) in 2012 while pursing her BFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Graphic and motion graphics designer in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he works as Ontwerp.tv (Idea currency) Pty Ltd. He created several experimental alphabets, often of a geometric nature, such as Geometric Chic (2008-2009) and Beauty (2009). The Bends (2011) is a hairline curly-yet-straight display face. SansGoma (2011) is a hairline slab poster face. Nu Gothic (2011), Nu Modern (2011) and especially Vironica (2011) are fashion mag display faces. Neu Nouveau (2011) is a curly art nouveau face. Numera (2011) is an organic fashion mag face. Killoton (2011) is super-fat and beautiful. Creations in 2012: An art deco example in his Janelle 1945 work. Vorm Type, inspired by the work of Wim Crouwel, is a rounded blocky typeface that is monospaced in the x and y directions. Typefaces from 2013: Canada (alchemic). Home page. Behance link. Ontwerp link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Slovak designer from the early part of the 20th century. One of his posters entitled Deleni Plochy (1927) shows rectangular bi-colored partitions of space. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian creator of a poster for a Kurt Schwitters exhibition in Paris in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lynchburg, VA-based designer of Thinny (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Legendary Swiss type teacher at the Design Institute of Basel. His output includes many fantastic typographic posters. Example. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Brussels. Behance link. He has done some interesting typographic work, such as Noah (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator and graphic designer in Saint-Germain-en-Laye near Paris. He created a beautiful poster for his city in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Villach, Austria-based typographer, who amde a few great Bauhaus style posters in 2010, such as Bauhaus Hajo Rose, dedicated to the forgotten Bauhaus artist Hans Joachim Rose. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typographic poster examples: A, B, C, D, E, F, G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q. Examples of typographically great bike posters: A | B | C. Behance link. Facebook link. Flickr link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Polish graphic designer who lives in Wroclaw. He has made some inspired posters of typographic value. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at the Universidad Gestalt de Diseño, in Xalapa, Mexico. He created a fun typographic illustration called Nación Futura (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic and editorial designer in Northport, NY. He made a few interesting type posters in 2010: Bembo, Futura, Zebrawood. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator at deviantart of this wonderful portrait composed of English and Japanaese text. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Talented Russian illustrator in Saint Petersburg. Flickr page. She made some nice ornamental caps alphabet [perhaps not a font] and drew interesting typographic posters such as Logoman (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bad Kerning
| Dan Hall (Memphis, TN) posted this example of kerning gone awry. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
The typophiles decry the lack of typographic passion at Monotype in 2011 in several ways. Chris Lozos an ugly ad for the 2011 release of Rotis II Sans. Others note that only the spreadsheet counts. An excerpt from their 2011 Annual Report: We derive a majority of our revenue from a limited number of customers, in particular manufacturers of laser printers and mobile phones. For the years ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008, our top ten licensees by revenue accounted for approximately 50.8%, 47.1% and 46.3% of our total revenue, respectively. Their clientele consists of laser printing companies, publishing houses, mobile device firms, and large corporations. Others point to the visual degradation of another Monotype subsidiary, ITC. Stephen Coles points the finger at New York's design company Happy Cog. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Seoul-based motion graphic designer. Behance link. He made an art deco alphabet poster in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Balla Dora Typo-Grafika
| Many nice examples of creative typography, worked into a blog. By Dora Balla from Hungary. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Sacramento, CA-based designer. Cargocollective link. He created geometric logotypes called Virtuous (2012) and Espionage (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Author of Type Image (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bathroom typography
| Funny alphabet composed of hairs found in a bathroom sink. Stuart Mayhew is based in Denver, CO. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Brescia, Italy. Behance link. She created an expressive typographic portrait of Beethoven in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A daily dose of typography brought to you by by "Satoru". [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Freelance web designers Francis Chouquet and Aurélien Foutoyet, both based in France, run a type blog, reporting on great finds. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic design student at UBA who created a few typefaces such as the experimental typeface Frecasjon (2012) and who designed a few beautiful retro posters, also in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer and illustrator in Trier, Germany. Creator of the typeface ION (2011), which is showcased on some of his posters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Digital artist from Plymouth, UK. He created the experimental typeface Juice (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
British illustrator who got a Masters degree in 2004 from the University of Huddersfield. Now, located in Toronto, he created some nice hand-lettered chalk mural pieces such as one called Metcalf Interns--it has the names of all 2001-2011 Metcalf interns. Cargo collective link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bristol, UK-based digital artist, who drew a few beautiful ornamental caps in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and illustrator in Brno, Czechia. He created animal silhouettes out of letters in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bernardo Ruiz created a number of nice cards for Valentine in 2012 called San Valentin Tipografico. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typographer and graphic designmer in Sao Paulo, where he is art director at MTV. He made some typographic posters like Tipos Maleficos. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Blastto
| Spanish graphic design group Blastto (Madrid) is actually Carlos Llorente. He created a nice art deco type booklet in 2010, covering Broadway (1929), Bifur (1919), Parisian (1928) and others. Designer of the free experimental face Teardrop (2010) and the gridded face Try Type (2011). In 2012, he made Pigopago (a free double stroke font). Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Austrian studio that created an alphabet of design classics in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Bulgarian graphic and type designer who made Versus (2008, pixelish). Also check out his colorful type poster. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Botto Arts is located in the United States. At Behance, they showcased a fine poster about Pluto (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer from Iowa City, who shows some photogaphs of sign lettering at his site. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Each letter is a close-up of gyri (bumps) and sulci (grooves) found on the surface of the human brain. By Dr. Eric H. Chudler from the University of Washington. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Smashing magazine posts 50 breathtaking type posters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of a multiline typographic poster in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brian A. Jaramillo
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Designer in Malabon, The Philippines, who made a beautiful typographic poster series in 2012 called Mothers Milk. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Artistic director in London, who created an Escheresque typographic poster called The Truth (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brian Jacob
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Bru Perini (Porto Alegre, Brazil) did some exquisite lettering entitled Havana Libre (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brazilian graphic designer in Sao Paulo. He created this amazing typographic poster of an eagle. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brazilian art director who created a typographic poster of Charlie Chaplin in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Professional photographer Kjell Sandved has found all letters of the alphabet on the wings of butterflies. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Caligraft
| Beautiful (programmed) experimental letters derived from fonts. This is based on the Masters Thesis in Digital Arts, obtained in 2005 by the Catalan designer Ricard Marxer Piñón, 2006. For this, he wrote the "Geomerative" library of programs, which includes a truetype importer and interpreter. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Based in Ashburn, VA, Camille Hontiveros designed the lettering for a Moombahton Madness poster in 2013. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Hull, UK. Creator of the gridded typeface Hypno (2012). He also created the original typographic poster called Seedy Motel (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Carlos Llorente
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Graphic designer in Argentina. Home page. He made a nice typographoc poster of the Olympics in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Carol Liao (Los Angeles) created a Plantin specimen booklet in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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French designer who has some nice typographic experiment called Alphabetempo (1994), based on the chronological decomposition of letters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Argentinian designer. He created a fun type match poster in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Creator of the beautifully handlettered logo and meus for The Mermaid Inn (2009). Chad specializes in sign lettering out of his office on Spadina Avenue in Toronto. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Toronto-based creator of Halloween Fashion Week Poster (2012) for an event held in Toronto that was hosted by Elle Canada. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Change The Thought
| Typography blog, with many nice typographic posters. Changethethought was established in 2002 as the portfolio website for designer and art director Christopher Cox (Lakewood, CO). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
UK-based designer who created a Herb Lubalin poster in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Chicago O'Hare
| Matt Soar points out a good one: the O'Hare airport sign is set in the typeface Chicago: There's a scene early on in the movie Meet the Fockers where Ben Stiller and his bride-to-be fly off to see her parents. The establishing shot (above) cleverly reminds us exactly which city they're leaving. Which brings us to the big, helpful sign: first, it was clearly comped in during post-production; and, second, it's typeset in, wait for it, Chicago. Now there's inspired design for you. Chicago - the font, not the city - was designed in 1983 as a system font for the Apple Macintosh by Susan Kare. Its design has absolutely nothing to do with the city of the same name. In fact, according to Kare herself, the set of fonts she designed for Apple "were named after Philadelphia suburbs", until management decided otherwise. The moral, as ever, is: don't select type based on its name. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Chicks and Types, aka Sketch This Out, is a virtual artist in Firenze, Italy. He created a few posters in 2012, such as Isabelle & Times New Roman, Heather & Museo, and Carla & Din. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Illustrator and graphic designer based in Sevilla. Creator of the nice typographic poster called Francisco Nixon (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer from Surabaja (Indonesia) who made the typographic poster Tribute to Bjork (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2013, she used Giacometti's sculptures to created a Giacometti lettering alphabet. Nahkoa (2013) is an angular typeface that is inspired by the native American culture. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Missouri. I quite like the (commissioned) typography for a restaurant called Miso Sushi (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Christian Annyas
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Christian Perez (Troyes, France) reated a cubist / Mondriaan style typographic poster in 2013, entitled Hurricane as a Girl. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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During her BFA studies at SUNY New Paltz, Christina Sharp (Rome, NY) created a hand-lettered poster in 2012 entitled Filling The Void. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Christine Sejean (Reims, France) made a psychedelically-lettered poster entitled Paul McCartney (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Christopher Cox
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Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Enjoy the great use of the letter M for the branding of the city of Melbourne in 2009 by a team of designers at Landor: Jason Little, Ivana Martinovic, Jefton Sungkar, Malin Holmstrom, Sam Pemberton. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kenosha, WI-based creator of the counterless handprinted face Steamroller (2011). She also designed some beautiful ornamental caps in her Earth Day Poster (2011). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Jacksonville, FL-based creator of a wooden typographic sculpture (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cooee Design
| Graphic designer in Dublin, where he runs Cooee Design. Some of his posters and projects are about experimental typography, such as A to Z (2009) and Cycles. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
This useful site lists information about company logos, colors and typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Minneapolis, MN, who started life in North Dakota. He created the (free) tall sans display face Insanability (2010). He also made a Didot specimen poster. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of nice typographic examples, such as his Hairy Futura (2008). He designed the fat didone display face Lovechild (2009) and the spurred typeface Killer (2013). He is based in London. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Experimental typography by Cranbrook Academy of Art students:
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A Dutch designer from Groningen. Examples of type on the streets of Paris. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creattica is an image bank with a subsection on typography. Check out the letter-based image called Bug (2010) by Ebru Selçuk. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer from San Diego. Creator of some great type posters in 2009 and 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Lemberg, Ukraine. As a student, she made a nice art deco poster called Vita Brevis Ars Longa (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Russian site with many photographs of lettering in public places. Very entertaining! [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
D.A. Sanborn
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Daily Type
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South African graffiti and digital artist whose mural called Octopus G (2011) is quite spectacular. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Dan Hall
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Designer of a Bifur-like typographic poster for an Exhibition on Calvert Avenue, 2008. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dubai-based designer of a logotype caps face for Daniel Bio Studio (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Boston-based designer of a nice imaginary Lord of the Flies movie poster (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Communication&Multimedia Design at the NHL University in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. Indonesian creator of beautiful lettering in his Maluku poster (2011). Maluku is the local word for Moluccan, referring to the island group situated between Celebes, the Phillippines, New Guinea and Timor. It is part of Indonesia. | |
Daniel Mellis (Chicago) printed a small book in 2010 based on 19th century ornamented metal typefaces from the collection at Wells College. These include Tinted, Tasso, Banquet, Antique Extra Condensed, Aquatint, Dandy, Modoc, Columbus, Art Gothic, Rubens, Yukon Pointed, Tuscan Stellar, Halftone, Obelisk, Alpine, Gothic Shade, Ruskin, Condensed Roman, Ray Shade, Tuscan Floral, Souvenir and Aurora Uncial (Victor Hammer, ATF---never produced, but rediscovered by Theo Rehak). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator and art director in Berlin. Behance link. Creator of some beautiful typographic posters, such as the ones that announce some plays at the Volksbühne Berlin (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Wil, Switzerland-based creator of a nice type poster of Jan Tschichold. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Daniela Zatti
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Graphic designer in Lexington, KY, wh drew a nice vintage poster called Becherovka (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in San Diego who used Doyald Young's Gallant to make beautiful posters entitled Brahms Letters (2011) for an event that took place at the Lincoln Center of the Performing Arts in New York, featuring the work of Johannes Brahms. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danielle Gravelle (Milford, MI) designed an arts and crafts logo for Vienna Café in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Manchester, UK-based illustrator and graphic designer who has some nice typographic posters. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of a couple of great Bodoni posters. I also like the geometric typography in the brand design of Karaoke Kafe. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type blog by David Airey, a graphic and logo designer. Check out his Alphabet Photo Gallery. His links to Flickr groups on found and vernacular type. 13 Typefaces for graphic designers. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Greenboro, NC-based creator of an Escheresque logo for Overfield (2012) and of a savvy logo for a charter yacht in the British Virgin Islands called Grand Cru (2012). | |
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David Delahunty
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David Levine
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French graphic designer, journalist and photographer. In 2004, he started work in Istanbul for a branding company. Director of the collection Atelier Perrousseaux, and frequent speaker at design and type meetings. | |
Not a typographer, but an expert sarcast well worth reading. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Deanne Cheuk
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Deanne Cheuk Typojungle
| Type blog: TypoJungle is an inspirational resource focused on typography, graphic design, books, exhibitions, minimalism and modernism, updated several times a day. TypoJungle is maintained by PixelJungle Team, it is a continuously evolving live project that showcases the best in international graphic design, print and typography projects. Creator of a delicate typographic poster in 2007 called Byrd of America. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Born in Caracas, Deborah is currently studying fine arts at California State University. She made a great type poster that explains typographic terminology. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A place with many images by new visual artists. Has subpages on typography. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Flickr site with many scans of decorative 19th century alphabets. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Located in Menomonie, WI, Dena Hoewisch created the cool typographic composition NY Color (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of some neat type posters in 2009. Another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Didot is everyhere, on fashion mag covers like Vogue and Bazaar, on billboards, and in brand logos such as Hilton, Dior, cK, Boss, Yves Saint-Laurent, Giorgio Armani, Zara and Guess. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
This site has a few historical examples of typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pictures of marginal marks, including a gorgeous manicule, in medieval manuscripts. Courtesy of the digital library at the University of California at Berkeley. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Patras, Greece-based graphic designer and typographer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dimitry Hamekink
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Graphic designer in Curitiba, Brazil, who created a typographic wine bottle in 2013. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Article in The PracTeX Journal, 2006, vol. 1. It has font quizzes and name-that-font tests concocted by Yves Peters, Tamye Riggs, Charles Bigelow, and Michael Spivak. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Detroit, MI-based designer of a Barack Obama poster (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dora Balla
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Studio in Barcelona. Their oeuvre includes a number of wine labels, such as Alfaro Barroco, for which a special set of ornamental initials was created in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and illustrator in Toronto, whose work includes a beautiful Romeo and Juliet typographic poster (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Designer in Sofia, Bulgaria, who created an art deco poster called Car Deco (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dylan Roscover (Aloma, FL) made an incredible portrait of Steve Jobs based on the "Here's to the crazy ones" ad campaign from Apple in the 90s, using Motter Tektura, Apple Garamond, Myriad, Univers, Gill Sans, and Volkswagen AG Rounded, fonts present in Apple branding and products. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Designer of the great letter-based image called Bug (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and illustrator in Bristol, UK, who did some interesting Si Scott-style lettering. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of a beautul Day of the Dead postcard series in 2009. He says: The Tzompantli, or wall of skulls was another element taken from the aztec culture. These racks were built to display the sacrificial victims or those deceased at wars. The grin. In all these characters the grin is related to Mictlantecuhtli’s mocking smile. Some anthropologist say that this enigmatic gesture, depicted in one sculpture, seems to smile or mock ironically of those who face or will face him one day. Three posters were created as well, for silkscreen painting. The skulls in the postcards were designed using an ornamental and illustration style called DIDOQUE, which emulates the baroque ornamentation and is constructed on whole letters and pieces, signs, glyphs of the DIDOT typography. Didoque, is a portmanteau word and concept result of the words Didot and Baroque. Home pasge. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Chilean graphic designer who created this type composition (2001). Designer of the display face CL BEC (2006). Designer at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, "Magister en Artes Visuales" of the Universidad de Chile. Docent at the Universidad Católica of Diego Portales and at the Instituto Profesional Alpes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Stirling, UK-based graphic designer and typographer. Originally from Latvia, he cooked up some exquisite corporate identities. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Moscow-based art director and illustrator who has made some typographic illustrations between 2008 and 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer who created a great circle and compass-based monogram in 1998-1999 at ISIA Urbino. See here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator. In 2011, in her Dia De Los Muertos gouache series, she illustrated various poster typefaces, including Buttermilk (Jessica Hische), Poppl-Residenz, and P22 Imperial Script. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Elwin Gorman, born in 1985 in Murcia (Spain) is a graphic designer. He has done some typographic work. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Designer in Atlanta, GA, whose company is called Curly Maple Creative. Creator of an eye-pleasing typographic poster called Rosebud Forks (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Freelance illustrator in Savannah, GA. She created the award-winning typographic poster Milagres in 2011. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Great type examples by Turkish designer Engin Korkmaz. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gallery of his typographic posters. Hebrew lettering examples: Suleyman (2010), You Are What You Resolve To Be (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tustin, CA-based illustrator who created a wonderful Lombardic logotype called Siena in 2012. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at Yale University's School of Art. In 2010, Eric hu designed a 17-foot poster celebrating the works of a 1960's avant-garde architecture group named Archigram. The poster features a customized typeface, stacked vertically and then collaged and intermixed with pieces and artifacts of Archigram's drawings. Metaphorically, this creates an entirely new megastructure and through the scale of the poster, the work reflects the rigor and passion of Archigram. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Eric Tabuchi
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Designer in San Diego, who created an alphabet with matches, called Ignite (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Photographer from Istanbul. He made a nice typographic poster of Che Guevara. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mary (aka Estranged Illusions, b. 1986) is from Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. She created a nice typographic poster entitled Power of Words (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Etienne Mineur
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Etienne Mineur
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This company sells an interesting Multifont buckle. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Creator of fine bottle label designs and typography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Las Vegas, NV-based creator of a nice capital S logo for Starlet, a cocktail bar in the Palms Casino Resort. | |
Examples of signage disasters: Aquatic Swimwear, Fashion City, Kastanienhof. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
F37 (or: Face37)
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Art deco era illustrator and letterer. His oeuvre includes the cover of Almanach du journal amusant (1929), and L'Amour en campagne 100 dessins. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
For 10 USD, a set of 48 cards with font specimen and the history of the faces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fantastic Frilly Bits Typography Inspiration
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Spanish illustrator. Behance link. Creator of a retro cartoon illustrated alphabet (2011; not a font). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pantin, France-based designer of the fun typographic logo Yummyogurt (2012), which was created during her studies. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Singapore-based creator of images from glyphs. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Beautiful graphic arts blog with many typographic examples. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian designer of a green grunge typographic poster entitled 1979 (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer and digital artist in Porto, Portugal. He made a nice typographic poster entitled Free Tibet (2010), and designed a number of experimental typefaces in 2010. In 2011, he made Souca (multilined), Ayuthaya (blackletter), Gourmet (art deco), Graphic Monkeys (bilined), a curly face and an ornamental caps face. Typefaces from 2012: Colambo (an early 20th century grotesk), Honkers (rounded sans). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Byelorussian illustrator who fled his country when he was 18 years old. He sold paintings in Moscow and now lives in Amsterdam. His drawings are straight out of the 19th century, ornamental and playful. He is also inspired by the psychedelic lettering of the 1960s. Discussion of his work by Coles. Typefaces, all made or drawn in 2006-2007: Rodopi, Fashion Condensed, Farringdon, Hopkins, Rondell (Western style face), Abramesque (ornamental caps), Mansard Trimmed (19th century emulation), Wedlock, Silverado, Shimmer Wide (cyrillic), Mona (extra-wide slab serif), Flirt Chloe (more 19th century ornamental glyphs), Jubilee (constructivist Cyrillic lettering), Big Cyrillic pixels (many great pixelized alphabets), Cuba, Gingerbread (Victorian), and St. Clair. Alternate URL. Check out his gorgeous country maps designed for the aeroflot in-flight magazine in 2008. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Search engine for type-related photographs. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Flickr group specializing in single letter pics. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A Flickr pool for the typographically starved. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Florence (or: Bombastudio)
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In 2012, she published Lucrezia, an overzealous decorative caps typeface, and Henry (a free retro script all caps family named after Henry Ford). Cargo Collective page with interesting posters such as Archer (2011) and Einstein. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
A source of free clipart---mostly in TIFF format. These include tens of alphabets and almost a thousand initials, as well as many thosands of ornaments. Start page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Flyer Goodness is an art blog that posts inspiring flyers&posters every day. A nice source also of typographic ideas. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Font posters designed by most foundries affiliated with MyFonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Interesting way of displaying and categorizing fonts, with over 1500 font images. By Merz Akademie's Patrick Schell and Harald Scholz, in Hamburg and Berlin, respectively. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FONTana Typestudio
| FONTana is a font design studio in Szeged, Hungary, started in 1999. Free and commercial typefaces (39USD/piece) by Gabor Kóthay (La Danse, Luxury, Sehrgut (Fraktur), Faximile (1999), L&R (1999), Monsoon (1999)), and Amondó Szegi (Telegdi family, which is based on the worn typefaces used by Abbot Nicolaus Telegdi at the Vienna Jesuit press in the 16th Century; Velorex (1999)). Very beautiful web page, and fantastic fonts in all respects! Free faces: Zodiac (2000), Cards (Gyula Zsigri, 2001), Maldoror, Domino (Gabor Kóthay), Count, Csenge (a Hungarian rune font by Csaba Dávid), Qwerty (Gabor Kóthay, 2000), Y2K (Gabor Kóthay, 2000). Early commercial fonts: Woodini (caps), Sleeping Beauty (caps), Zimbalo (1999, Amondó Szegi), Pacalsone (1999, Amondó Szegi), Paradox (1999, Amondó Szegi), Construct (2001, Amondó Szegi), Binario (2000, Amondó Szegi), Bikewrench (2001, Amondó Szegi), Cabin (2001, Gábor Kóthay). At T-26, in 2001, Amondó Szegi published the commercial faces MuseFace (art nouveau), Glosso (2003), Xodus-History (2001), Kozma-Ornaments, Xodus-Forgotten (2001), Xodus-Regular (2001), Xodus-Italic (2001), all showing old Slavonic influences in Latin letters. In 2000, he made Alian Ornaments (floral ornaments) for T-26. At T-26, Gábor Kóthay published Adagietto (2000), Minerva (2000), Archetype (2000). At PsyOps, Gábor Kóthay published the formal script Anglia (2001), Berill (2001), and Plexo (2001). Amondó Szegi's faces at T-26: Nexodus (2008, medieval style), Zenthes (2008), Alien Ornaments, Glosso, Iskola (a medieval face done with Silas Dilworth), Kozma (great ornaments), Melico, Melico Ornaments (2004, another great set), Xodus. At P22, Szegi designed the curly face Mantra (2005). Amondó Szegi's Telegdi family is since 2001 available from P22. At The Type Trust, he created the playful Gepetto (2006). Among their custom corporate identity jobs, the Losonczi Hair Salon work (2012) is quite outstanding. Dubstep (2012) is an experimental trinagulat grid-based typeface. In 2013, Glosso Novum (2013, Fontana Type Foundry), a remastering of Glosso (2003), was published. Klingspor link. Fontspace link. Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Examples of glyphs drawn at ATypI 2006 in Lisbon. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Annoying Japanese site by Morisawa in which users can play with glyph components to create new things. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontPlay page by Dennis Hill. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Napse Design identifies the fonts on the most popular web site logos::
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Fontsinuse
| Stephen Coles set up this site about fonts in advertising and the media in 2010. The initial page reads: Our effort begins here, with a regularly updated collection of case studies and trend reports. We've invited experts from various fields to comment on how type is used (and misused) in graphic design today. In our first few installments, magazine designer Marc Oxborrow has an emotional reaction to the redesign of Bloomberg Businessweek, the Font Bureau's Sam Berlow notices that the type specimen has become a design genre, I point to some recent projects in which type and especially typeface selection plays a central role, and instructor and historian Indra Kupferschmid reminds us that the real Bauhaus was not all geometric and experimental letterforms. This blog is a prologue of more to come. Behind the scenes, we are building a searchable, sharable archive of typographic design, all indexed by typeface, industry, and medium. And you are invited to join us. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
For The Love Of Type
| Gemma O'Brien's type blog discusses many interesting typographic examples. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Examples of type found in various places. Blog format. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Foundations of Typography B
| A so-called web poster exhibition by René Wanner (Switzerland), who runs a quite complete poster page, on the theme of the letter B. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Hamburg-based group which has produced some nice type posters in 2009 (but they have an awful web site). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Talented Italian information designer. Examples: Bicchiere ragionato (2011), Infografica (2011), Information Design. Author of Designer Quotidiano, re-designer.org. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Buenos Aires-based graphic designer who has some interesting typographic examples while at FADU, UBA. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Slovak designer from the early part of the 20th century. Check out the sturdy typography in his Annual Report for the Vocational School of Graphic Design (1927). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fre Lemmens (Zolder, Belgium) made the custom font family SKDR in 2012. His typographic work for Apotheek Gijsenbergs is also noteworthy (and beautiful). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Frederik Samuel
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Typographic examples, a sort of blog and showcase of type drawn or used by designers. Run by Aaron Carambula, Erik Marinovich, Jason Wong, and Dennis Payongayong. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nice vintage American label typography, ca. 1910-1950. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typography sub-pages at Fubiz Daily Dose of Inspiration. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fuck yeah kerning
| A web site that posts examples of poor kerning. Run by Kilian Valkhof, a Front-end developer&user experience designer from The Netherlands. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Los Anglese who made a typographic poster for TDC59 in 2013. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Inspiring octagonal multicolored lettering by Gabe Re. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Imagine a Garamond with a topping of powerlines. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Gary Hustwit
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Gary Paitre (Digital Dude) is an American-born Montrealer, whose design work took him to the "bubbly" logo for BUI Optometrics (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pages on the design of a menu, from the selection of typefaces, to the page composition and the choice of colors and images. This particular author settled on CurlzMT for the title, and TempusSansITC for the body text. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gemma O'Brien
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Gene Gable
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Singapore-based designer of some typographic animals in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rochester, NY-based creator of a great set of single letter logos in 2011 for Modovare. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
George Daniel (London, UK) created nice typographic work for the Montana Film Project in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French poster artist, 1883-1965. A poster for Piera Nova (1923) inspired Raconteur (2007, Nick Curtis). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Georgia Cowley (Washington, DC) created the avant garde style face Avatura (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Samples of fonts that may never have been digitized: Phalanx (Genzsch and Heyse, 1928), Mundus Light and Bold (Stempel, 1928), Arpke Antiqua (Schriftguss, 1928), Zabel Roman (Woellmer, 1928-1930), Omega (Stempel, 1926). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Giada Coppi was a partner of LS graphic design, a studio that he founded in Milan together with Italian designers Marta Bernstein, Alberto Cantone, Paolo Ciampagna, and Emanuela Conidi. Now located in Vienna, she created the gridded typographic poster ManyVal 08 in 2008. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Giangiorgio Fuga
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Giò Fuga Type
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Creator from Santiago, Chile, of typographic underwear in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Lecco, Itay, who made a type-based portrait of Bodoni in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Art director and graphic designer from Sao Paulo, Brazil. She created this excellent type poster in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
London-based designer and illustrator who has some nice type posters such as Sticky (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gladys Jose (Creative Hummingbird, Orlando, FL) is a student at the University of Central Florida. She created some great examples of applied typography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
New York based creative director. Designer of a typographic portrait of Nicki Minaj (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Google Maps Typewriter Machine
| A free on-line tool to write text using letters found as patterns in google maps. By Marc Antoni Malagarriga i Picas at the University of Barcelona. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fun google-based site that draws random letters from the web. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Kiev, Ukraine, who created some nice illustrations and a few typographic posters in 2013. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Found type blog with many examples drawn from the book arts scene. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Leicester, UK-based designer of the ISTD logotype in 2012. ISTD stands for International Society of Typographic Designers. Also in 2012, he created the ornamental didone typeface GCM22 (HypeForType): GCM22 is also based on the letterforms of typographers; John Pistilli, Herb Lubalin and Si Scott. The ornate letterforms are based around the art of Turkish Ebru marbling, which is painting on water to create decorative patterns. His portfolio also contains several beautiful ornate typographic pieces. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphics outfit in Manchester, UK, which has produced some outstanding typographic examples, such as In Rainbows (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
David Chen collected some great videos from film and TV related to type. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Atlanta, GA-based creator of an oriental simulation logotype for a fictional upscale Japanese restaurant, Little Moon (2012). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Letraset drawings (made up with characters). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Guess the names and makers of these fonts (file courtesy of fellow typophile Pilla Tsun). Answers here. Another game. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brazilian creator of this great Baroque typography poster. He lives in Porto Alegre. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Chicago. Behance link. In 2011, she created a beautiful poster entitled Avenir, using Frutiger's 1988 typeface Avenir. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Czech creator of a typographic poster entitled Diplomky (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hana is a graphic designer from Belgrade. She made a nice typographic poster called Neandertal (2010). I guess that this goes with her simplistic and almost constructivist squarish typeface Neandertal (2009). She also created Kuka (2010), a simple display sans with both Latin and Cyrillic alphabets. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typography found on Bali's streets: a Ping Mag article by Uleshka dating from 2006. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Article by Kyoko and Uleshka for Ping Mag in 2006 on the hand-drawn letters found on the streets of Japan. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies in Chattanooga, TN, Hanna Melara created a handlettered poster called Wolfgang and Friends (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at UW Stout, who created a typographic emu in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Flickr group on vernacular and signage type in hannover. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Happyloverstown
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A follower of Calugi writes: Jonathan is a young illustrator hailing from Pistoia, Italy. It's nearly impossible to not recognize his signature style: what at first appears to be a child-like doodling, a closer look will reveal a world of intricate, carefully crafted patterns and eccentric geometric forms. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Greek graphic designer. He created a number of minimalist/pizelish/squarish Latin/Greek fonts in 2009 under the name City Fonts. His Totem Font (2009) is experimental. Nomass Team Font (2009) is a squarish stencil. His typographic posters. Alternate URL. Another URL. Behance link. Devian tart link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hardy Leung
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Graphic designer in Vancouver. Creator of a poster face called J Dilla (2012) and of the art deco typeface Blk Dahlia (2012). She created a nice multiline logo for the hair, make-up and wardrobe stylist Gigi Nijjar. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Art director in Los Angeles. Creator of Black Light Type (2012), a colorful alphabet poster. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kuala Lumpur-based designer (b. 1985) of the typographic poster Smoking Typography (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hassan Haider (b. 1980, Diepholz, Germany) sudied graphic design at FH Bielefeld. from Bielefeld, Germany, created the geometric faces Neo Serif (free), and Skate or Die (2009) and the grungy stencil face Soundpieces (2009). Nice accompanying poster too. Klingspor link. Bureau Hassan Haider link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hassan Musa
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Creator of a psychedelic typographic poster called Typographic classic cars (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Korean designer who experiments with type. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer who created a gorgeous lettering poster called Friday Pleasure (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Amsterdam who drew a nicely lettered series of illustrations called Soup (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Helena Öhman
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Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Helvetica
| A documentary film about Helvetica and the influence of type in our lives, by Gary Hustwit, released in 2007. From the web site: Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. The film is an exploration of urban spaces in major cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned designers about the choices and aesthetics behind their use of type. Helvetica encompasses the worlds of design, advertising, psychology, and communication, and invites us to take a second look at the thousands of words we see every day. The film was shot in high-definition on location in the United States, England, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, France and Belgium. [...] Interviewees in Helvetica include some of the most illustrious and innovative names in the design world, including Erik Spiekermann, Matthew Carter, Massimo Vignelli, Wim Crouwel, Hermann Zapf, Stefan Sagmeister, Michael Bierut, Jonathan Hoefler, Tobias Frere-Jones, Experimental Jetset, Michael C. Place, Norm, APFEL, Pierre Miedinger, Bruno Steinert, Otmar Hoefer, Rick Poynor, Lars Müller, and many more. Screened in Montreal on May 5, 2007, at Concordia University, the reaction was unanimously positive. The editing, pace, music and visual content are just perfect. The humour of Hustwit shines through when he pits the rationalists (pro-Helvetica people) against the emotionalists (the grunge crowd). The interviews with Massimo Vignelli (very funny), Wim Crouwel, Erik Spiekermann (about Helvetica: "bad taste is everywhewre"), Paula Scher (she said that Helvetica was used by the war corporations in Vietnam and is the cause of the Iraq war) and Michael Bierut are very entertaining. Maybe on purpose, maybe not, Hustwit used the Germans as a comical counterweight. FontShop link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Dutch poster artist, whose lettering on this maritime timetable entitled Sailings and Fares (1937) inspired Nick Curtis to make Metropolis NF. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Enjoy the pen-drawn sheep on the cover o Henry Moore Graphic Work 1972-1974. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Flickr group on historical types and typography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hilarious Youtube video made in 2009 by Albert Hall Prods. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch typographer and designer who made the racy typographic poster Nikita (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Faenza, Italy, who created some nice typographic posters in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Design boutique in East London which has created some alphabets (perhaps not fonts) such as Nike Running Club Alphabet (2012), Animal Alphabet (2010) and Circus Alphabet (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
I Love Typography
| Type information site and blog run since 2007 by graphic designer and web developer John D. Boardley from Kagawa, Japan. Glossary. Examples of inspiring use of display/poster type. Their exquisite logo. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Attard, Malta-based creator of the typographic poster Sex, Drugs and Rock n' Roll (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Idiot Copenhagen
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Ignoto is based in Porto, Portugal. They offer some creative posters and logos, sich as Eighty Percent (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Check his Chernobyl poster to see symbols in action in a subtle way. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Branding and digital artist from Salvador, Brazil, who has produced a great type poster in 2009 entitled The Power of Typo. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Istanbul-based Creator of a nice typographic Istanbul poster (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ilya Ruderman
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New York-based print designer who made the cover for William Gibson's text book Pattern Recognition (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Buenos Aires who created a fun typegraphic poster called El Arenque Ahumado (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Custom fonts for the IHT were made by Treacyfaces. They include Dixoni and Tbodoni (based on Berthold fonts), H, Hb, Hbo and Butir (all based on Adobe fonts), Tinr, Hbodit, and Bodb (based on Monotype) and Slime and Crimes, both treacyfaces originals. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
INVDR
| Freelance designer currently studying in the York/Sheridan Bachelor of Design program in Toronto, Ontario. Check out his Font Bots: robots made from letters taken from famous fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Irene Korol Scala
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Cairo-based designer and typographer. He created a nice typographic ampersand in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian type tour, showing pictures of found type, with maps and commentary. Part of Social Design Zine. For example, one is called Bodoniana. The other subpages are grouped around themes as well. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Croatian graphic designer in Zagreb who made a great Adobe Garamond Pro poster in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Izmir University of Economics
| Type design projects (June 2007) by Alessandro Segalini's students at Izmir University of Economics:
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Jack Turner
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Designer in Trier, Germany. Creator of a great party poster, Niko Party (2011). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Wellington, NZ-based designer of the prismatic logotypoe Party Down (2013), which was created for a kiwi lighting company. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jacob Type
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His commercial foundry, Jacob Type, was established in 2012 and is located in Texas. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Designer in Santa Tecla, El Salvador, who created a nice typographic chameleon poster in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
This Californian jewelry designer made a jewelry alphabet called The Temporium (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French publishing house. Enjoy the pictures of old book covers. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Canadian illustrator who teaches at OCAD University (Ontario College of Art and Design) in Toronto. Nice handlettering in some of her work. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jagjavi
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At his commercial foundry Jagjavi, he published Pushups (2012, hand-printed 3d face), Itchy Handwriting (2012), Docklan (2012, textured face), Herbarium (2012, plants dingbats) and Old Earthy (2012, a hand-drawn font inspired by the mid 19th-century art movement with William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood). Typefaces from 2013: Nanu and nau Simple Ornaments (hand-drawn poster font), Macro (fat headline or poster face), Macro Print (the eroded version of Macro), Karl and Karl Black (blackboard bold typeface family). Home page. Behance link. Another home page. Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Jake Haugen
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Creator of a well-designed typographic poster for the BA Costume with Performance Design at The Arts University College at Bournemouth, UK. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Telford, UK-based digital artist. Designer of some great type posters in 2008. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Flickr group on Japanese type, mostly signs and signage on buildings. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Buenos Aires-based designer of a nice typographic poster entitled Naranja (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jay Miller
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Jayesh Raut (Mumbai) is an art director and illustrator who made a few creative typographic posters (2012). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Jeffrey Bowman (Hemsedal, Norway) created some very original typographic illustrations in 2013 including Skirt for a Virgin Media Shorts film. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Los Angeles-based creator of the calligraphic poster Shit Will Alays Butt Out (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Digital artist from Orlando, FL. Creator of a nice art deco logo called Domo (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Helsinki-based designer who made a cute paper type out of crinkled sheets (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
An experimental typeface by Jeremy Pettis, illustrating the concept of "kangaroo", inspired Nick Curtis to design Pal Joey NF (2008). Exclamation mark poster. Flickr page with his photographs and illustrations. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
His typographic posters are quite original, and pack lots of humour. See, e.g., Brixx Bar and Grill (2011) and Four-Fingered Fisherman (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designers who made a great poster called Club Night with Navigators (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
American poster artist. A poster for Radiohead in the 1990s inspired Funky Rundkopf (2007, Nick Curtis). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jess Kjer (Cherry Hill, NJ) is a graphic and interactive designer, and a 2010 graduate of Tyler School of Art. She created some lively lettering for posters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Los Angeles who did a nice cover for George Schneider Photography (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Chicago-based designer of a gorgeous handpainted digitally enhanced B called Alphabetastic (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
New York-based photographer and artist. She created an alphabet out of pictures of folded glasses in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
New York City-based designer who did several art deco type treatments for her clients in 2010. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
San Francisco-based web designer who made a stylish Optima poster in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jesson Yip
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Jesson Yip's typographic clock
| Jesson is a London based freelance digital designer specialising in web, interaction and visualisation. Latest clients include the Green Party, Pure Productions and Sainsbury Center for Mental Health. Formerly a senior designer at Lateral, working with clients such as Amnesty, Five, Levi's, Lexus, Nintendo and RSPCA. His clock is wonderful. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Print and web designer in Brooklyn, NY. Home page. The project Oiseaux Retro (2011) is based on the art nouveau period and the 1974 French flick, Emmanuelle, and resulted in a great calligraphic poster by the same name. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Melbourne-based student who drew an intricate illustrative number 2 in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian poster artist, whose lettering on this Hungarian movie poster from 1927 inspired Nick Curtis to make Metropolis NF. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Albufeira, Portugal-based graphic designer who made the experimental faces Ivo (2012) and Poliphilo (2011). He also created an interesting drawing of Erik Spiekermann in 2011. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Job Wouters
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Jody Yeoh (Singapore) and Hwee Chong Chan codesigned Book Typeface (2011), with 3d glyphs made up of books. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer and illustrator in Sydney, who created a typographic poster called Chicago Typography Skyline (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creators of a nice typographic poster, Typographic Mustaches (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Basel-based graphic designer, who created nice typographics for an Aston Martin promotion in 2012. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
John D. Boardley
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A blog with many useful links to good and/or old typography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brooklyn-based illustrator and designer who created a great typographic poster for a Bon Iver performance in 2009. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lettering expert in New York City. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German graphic designer who created Door Sign (2011), a poster of a door sign with intersting typographic details. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jonathan Calugi
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Creator of a few typeface anatomy posters for typefaces such as Baskerville and Archer, in 2012. Jonathan is a graphic design student in Fremont, CA. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jonathan Yule
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Dutch poster and comic book lettering artist. Joost a Millionaire (2007, Nick Curtis) is based on his lettering for Millionaire (1976). Boeuf au Joost (2003, Nick Curtis) is an art deco face based on Swarte's record cover TangoCuatro from 1990. Title lettering for "Imago Moderna", an episode of the comic-strip series "Jopo de Pojo" (1974) led to Nick Curtis's Joost A Gigolo NF. This logotype of the comic-strip series "Katoen + Pinbal" (1975) was at the basis of Curtis's PinballWhizNF. The title lettering for "Modern Art", an episode of the comic-strip series "Anton Makassar" (1978) provided inspiration for Nick Curtis's ModernArtNF. Finally, Nick Curtis mimicked the lettering on this poster entitled "De wereldtentoonstelling van Joost Swarte" (1987) to design AmsterdamTangramNF. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aka Jotace (Lugo, Spain, b. 1989, Ribadeo). Creator of an original typographic poster called Fruton (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Located in New York City, Jose Antonio Contreras designed a colorful kitchen tile style typographic poster called Arts WFC Fall 2010 poster. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Specialist in fashion mag typography, who is based in New York City. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator and graphic designer from Vitoria, Brazil. On his Behance page, we can find many great typographic posters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Poster typography by José Domingo Betancur Gómez (Medellin, Colombia). Example 1, example 2. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Art director in Madrid. His logo for the Spanish band Gizmo (2012) is remarkable. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
British designer located in Rotterdam. Creator of the stylish art deco poster entitled Portfolio (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the fun poster entitled A Designer's Guide for Typestaches. Josh lives in Minneapolis. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer who will forever be known as the designer of the typographic poster Suck Me (2011). Student at Southampton Solent University, UK. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Art director from North Hollywood, CA. Developer of custom typefaces for the 2009 film Long Nights Moon. Promotional poster. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typefaces made in 2012: Metropolis (a superb bilined retro type family, ideal for posters---free download). Behance link. Hellofont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Slovak designer from the early part of the 20th century. Here is an example of an art deco magazine ad published by him in 1937. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Juan Carlos Pagan
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Moscow-based illustrator, letterer and calligrapher. Flickr page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typographer from Bogota, Colombia. He uses textures in his posters. The texture of clothing inspired him to create an experimental alphabet in 2010. Alternate URL. Here and here are other experimental alphabets. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies at Universidade de Aveiro in Portugal, Juliana Moreira (Villa Nova de Gaia) designed a vernacular experimental typeface (2013) called Esta um frio de rachar. Also, check out the lettering in the poster entitled Fotografia (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
KS-based graphic designer. She created some logotypes such as BBQ (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sao Paulo-based graphic designer who created typographically inspiring lettering for Imperio Bartenders in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her graphic design studies in Stoke-on-Trent, UK, Julie Brock created a neon light lettering poster entitled A Trip to Blackpool (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Interesting typographic designs by Jurriaan Schalken. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Justin Knopp
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Justine Nagan
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Designer in Gdansk, Poland, who created a colorful typographic poster called Calendar (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Graphic designer in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, who made a nice poster of a human face based on parts of a typeface (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Egyptian graphic designer who made some wonderful Arabic language book covers in 2013. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of a an alphabet made up from natural elements (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Kasper Ledet
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Student of graphic design at the Maine College of Art, born in New Jersey. Behance link. Her ball terminal logotype called Fagerstrom (2010) shows a lot of innate talent. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer from San Marcos, TXZ, who drew a cute typographic character Little Miss Avenir (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Katharina Nussbaumer
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UK-based designer of a codex-style identity and type style for the Mutton Quad restaurant in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Font art by Kathy Estibeiro, based on my own sugaku font series. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Newport, RI-based student, letterer and graphic designer. Behance link. She made a nice psychedelic typography poster in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Based in Austin, TX, Keo Pierron created the Pages Alphabet (2011). Check also his poster called Ponzu Sushi House (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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A typical art deco advertising, taken from the Straits Times in Singapore, February 1936. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Kilian Valkhof
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October 2009: ABC News has adopted Arial as its main display font. Capital I and lower case l "ell" look exactly the same, so Kim Jong-Il was read as Kim Jong II, or Kim Jong the Second. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer and illustrator in New York City, who made a great stencil poster entitled New York Fucking City (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Despite the modest agricultural name, they say this about themselves: Koeweiden Postma is one of the leading branding and design agencies in The Netherlands. I quite like the typographic work they did in the form of posters and ads for the Picasso in Paris 1900-1907 exhibition, held in 2011. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Illustrator and street artist in Mexico City. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Washington, DC-based designer of typographic illustrations for Farmers Fishers Bakers in Washington, DC, 2013. In 2013, she published the curly typeface Zeppolini at Design23. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Torontonian designer of some interesting caps in which opposite counter are filled by competing graphical elements: K, S. While studying at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto, she created the connect-the-dots geometric typeface Interfuse (2013). Newer Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The nice typographic poster set against animal furs entitled I Want To Be A Beast (2009) was designed by Ksenia Slavcheva. See Philip Bartsch's site. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic Designer, born 1980 in Taiwan. Living and working in Tainan, Taiwan. His lettering can be seen, e.g., on the logo of the Japon Kabob Bar. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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During her studies at the Savannah College of Art & Design in Savannah, GA, Kyra Troy designed a stylish alphabet poster (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish design studio which created a nice logo for Restaurant Zurowina in Warsaw in 2012. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A great ad for Lanvin Castillo stockings, dated 1959. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Larry Anderson (Seattle) was winner at TDC 27 in 2006 in the logotype category with a nice piece called Bliscotti. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lasca Sartoris
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Creator of a photo-play font called Fingerhot Pepper (2012). Born and raised in Miami, she is presently in New York City. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Los Angeles-based creator of a typographic logo for The Little Bureau (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her graphic design studies at Staffordshire University, Laura Whitehouse (Stoke-on0-Trent, UK) designed an ornamental version of the well-known Onyx font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Richmond, VA-based designer of the typographic portrait of Hitchcock (2012), which only used letters from his film posters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lauren Harvill (Atlanta, GA) used fishing lures in her illustrative alphabet called Alluring Type (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Belgian graphic designer from Huy. Some of his posters, such as Typographisme Escher and Al Capone, are typographically interesting. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Le Studio Graphic and Web Design
| Dimitry Hamelink's studio Le Studio in The Netherlands is also based in Cazillac, France. It did the typography in a brush style for the album I am Hunter by Miss Montreal (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Orlando, FL-based graphic designer who created the Slutvetica poster in 2009. He also produced a typography booklet in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Leo Cepeda (Sunrise, FL) designed a beautifully expressive logo for a restaurant called Saluté (Cayman Islands) in 2012. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tbilisi-based creator of some typographic posters such as one called I Love Typography (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Argentinian artist (b. 1920) who uses letters in very sexy ways such as on mannequins. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typographic poster based on the work of Annie Leibovitz. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Letman
| Nice calligraphy in 2009 by Job Wouters in Amsterdam. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Dutch lettering artist who drew some alphabets in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Web tool: Lets you try out Letraset fonts before buying them. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
LetterCult
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Behance link. Brian is located in Signal Hill, CA. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Pictures from Havana (by yours truly, dated April 2003), and a brief report on type in Cuba. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pictures of lettering in Santiago de Compostela, taken by yours truly with a cheap digital camera in 2003. [7MB] [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Melbourne, Australia-based graphic designer whose work often involves creative typography. Behance link. Currently, she is a graduate student at Swinburne University in Melbourne. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
New York City-based designer of experimental typographical pieces in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hammond, LA-based creator of a nice typographic movie poster for the Woody Allen film Midnight in Paris (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lisa Holland (Lisa Holland Design, UK) is a graphic design graduate from the University of Wales Newport. Behance link. She made a great typographic illustration series called Iconic Women (2011). Creator of the experimental typefaces Wred (2011), Edscribel (2011) and Contortionist (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Tool to generate an image set in the Llama alphading font. Unknown creator. No font downloads. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Based in Medellin, Colombia, Lola Naranjo designed the ribbon typeface Serilla and the multilined Mayatype in 2013. She also has great typographic posters, such as one called In The Frenetic City (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The aim of this site: London Typographica is aimed at type and lettering enthusiasts in London. Our aim is to photographically record publicly available lettering and type throughout the capital. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Puerto Rican letterer, illustrator and poster designer. His lettering includes an Alfabeto Español (1969), and an ad for Orquestra Sinfonica (1965). Lorenzo Homar received a PhD from the InterAmerican University in Puerto Rico in 1972. Illustrations: Sgt Everett Gould, Fitchburg, MA, Puerto Rican poster (1968), Sin Nombre (1976). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Toronto. He used glyphs from Helvetica to illustrate sexual positions in Helvetisutra (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fun Flickr site---most photographs are of typefaces used for or by businesses with a similar name. Souvenirs set in Souvenir, Clarendon Street in Clarendon, and so forth. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Barcelona, who did some experimental typography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
He has shown some complete, mostly calligraphic, alphabets that I suspect have never been fonted. These include the calligraphic brush set ABC Narrow (2008), a blackletter demo, and Dry Brush Fraktur (2010). Pic. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
MyFonts link. Klingspor link. Behance link. Another Behance link. Lucas Sharp is involved with Typeslashcode in New York. He designed the free fat counterless face Doughboy (2010). Lucas Sharp does penmanship drawings such as Go Big Or Go Home (2010) and We're on a roll (2010). His talent shines through his award-quality ornamental didone family, Hera Big (2010), which I guess is an extenion of his earlier thesis work. Images of Hera Big: Black, Bold, Extra Light, Extra Thin. In 2011, he and Juan Carlos Pagan set up Pagan&Sharp in Brooklyn, NY. Foundry link at MyFonts. Together, Pagan and Sharp published Malleable Grotesque Regular (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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Lucid Mind Designs
| Jake Haugen (Minnapolis) is the creator of Bulletica (2009, Helvetica with bullets), an alphabet in AI, PSD and JPG format only. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Ludwig Gatzke
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Luke Connolly
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Graphic designer, photographer and letterer in Chicago. Behance link. Hallmark lettering example, poster entitled Mise en scene (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
San Francisco-based designer, a graduate from San Jose State Univerisity with a BFA in graphic design. She created a beautiful typographic poster of Charlie Chaplin (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in San Jose, CA, who created a great-looking web site and set of postcards for a hearing loss project called Barriod (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2012, Madeleine designed the hexagonal Etern typeface family. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Magdalena got a Bachelors degree in design of visual communications from the College of Market Communications Agora in Zagreb, Croatia. Creator of the typographic poster Fall in Me (2012), which was extended to a body-sized body painting. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in New York City. She created some faces with letters, such as Shakespeare (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mandy Milks
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Student at Bauhaus University Weimar who created some avant-garde type posters. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Manuel Kiem
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Marc Antoni Malagarriga i Picas
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I will take a wild guess and say that Marcel Cros was a Belgian illustrator and/or poster artist. In 1937, he did the lettering of an airline timetable "Sabena 1937 horaires et tarifs du 5 Avril au 9 Octobre" for (now bankrupt, thanks to our Swiss friends) Sabena Airlines. That beautiful poster led Nick Curtis to design his Sabrina Zaftig NF font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cartago, Costa Rica-based creator of the neon sign font Neonia (2012). Alsoo enjoy the calligraphic Sakura logo (2012) by the Cartago, Costa Rica-based graphic designer. In 2013, he created Almendra Unicase. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Talented illustrator and graphic designer in Milan, Italy, who works for the Italian version of Wired Magazine. Behance link. Examples: a bike poster called Hand Made With Love (2011), and an illustration called Firenze (2011). Creator of the fun free font GRN Burgy (2011), which was created for massive headlines, posters and fast food logos. It takes inspiration from the earliest American graffiti and from fast food culture. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Udine-based designer of a nice typographic logo, Pinna (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Buenos Aires-based illustrator who uses refreshing creative lettering in some of her work. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer from Chicago, who has made some nice typographical posters like Garamond Botanicals (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Buenos Aires-based creator in 2010 of a nice neon light style poster announcing Roadshow MTV 2010 in Mexico City. She graduated from the University of Buenos Aires. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia, Mariana Dominguez Cosson designed a beautiful typographic anatomy poster (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Santa Fe, NM-based designer of the typographic poster called Boombox (2012). She also drew an organic ornamental caps alphabet in 2012. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Marie-Christina Latsch from Muenster, Germany, created a very original typographic poster called Melodramatischer Pop (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Creator of a lovely colored alphabet in 2009, consisting of basic geometric forms only. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Author of Popup (2008), a book (and video) with popups of the letters of the alphabet. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mark Eastman's pictures of handlettering on walls and signs. Dead link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rijeka, Croatia-based illustrator and graphic designer. Creator of a poster for Carol Twombly's 1997 font, Chaparral (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Markus Hanzer
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Great example of glowing multiline neon lettering. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Czech graphic design student, who, as a stunt, created an alphabet out of molten caramel sauce, called Karamel Sans CE (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Marta Podkowińska
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Benton Gothic is a font family developed by Font Bureau for Martha Stewart Living Magazine and Worth Magazine from 1995-1997. Font Bureau also made Welo Script for them in 1998, as well as MSL Elzevir (1994-1995) and the ornate formal script font Lithografia (1998) (Lithographia Script was first released by the Bauer foundry around 1895). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Barcelona who makes extraordinary typographical posters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in 1932 in London, Martin Kaye was well-known for his sturdy posters which he made from 1972 until 1983 for Paradiso in Amsterdam. A set of 1100 of these posters owned by Stichting Martin Kaye Alphabet Index&Library is being managed by Affichemuseum in Hoorn, The Netherlands. He was also a type expert, and had started a catalog of typefaces, having made a listing of 60,000 typefaces when he was murdered in 1989 during a robbery. His work included also many unique complete alphabets. The book Facade AlphaBets et Cetera is the only published book document. At Amazon, we read about his book: Although out of print Martin Kaye's work deserves some recognition for his part in the world of typographic design. This book of some 90 pages reflects his work throughout 20 years. With typographic studies to reproductions of some of Kaye's Paradiso posters, this is perhaps the best example of of a lifetime's work by this artist. It is unfortunate this item remains out of print since it remains a definitive example of typographic inovation and inspiration. It is with great sadness that the book, published in 1985, four years prior to his death, remains as his only epitaph. Since only 1000 copies were ever printed it may never be seen by as many as might apreciate such a work. Examples of Kaye's work do hang in the Rock Museum in Amsterdam. But for me this book is a must for anyone interested in typography. This was done in the days before computers. Martin would hand cut the designs in 'red film' a method by which screenprint templates would be made. The intricacy of his designs and skill would astound anyone seeing him at work, the results of which would shine out from poster stands all over Amsterdam. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Stockholm-based designer of quite a few nice lettering pieces such as Hottest Here (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Czech creator of the typographic poster I Am For Free Fuck (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at ESAG-Penninghen who lives in Paris. During her studies, she created a nice typographic poster entitled Black and White (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in London, who designed a double-page spread for their feature spotlighting the creative hotlist for 2011. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Matt Soar
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Montreal-based designer and teacher at Concordia University. On his web site, there are interesting articles on Roger Excoffon's typefaces Nord, Banco, Choc and Mistral, as found on the streets of Montreal. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Matt Stevens (Charlotte, NC) created a great series of mechanically deconstructed caps called The Exploded Alphabet (2013). In a similar style, he designed illustrations for an article on European Supercars for Wired UK, also in 2013 Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Matt W. Moore
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Designer in Ladera Ranch, CA. He studied Art and Design at California Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo before taking work at Surfer Magazine. Creator of a nice Happy Newyear 2013 poster, as well as a great typographic cycling poster called Jedidiah (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rotterdam-based designer. Home page of Desited Media. Creator of a great multiline / prismatic poster for North Sea Jazz (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator and graphic designer in Lyon, France, whose Typocontes (translated: typographic fables), done in 2012, are quite enjoyable and humorous. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Meg Paradise (b. Scranton, PA) and Lauren Sheldon created the typeface for this flowery Chopard poster (2010). Meg lives in New York City. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
London-based designer and illustrator. She created a typographic fashion poster in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brooklyn, NY-based creator of an imaginary book cover for a text on Thomas Edison in 2012. This was done during her studies at the Pratt Institute. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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She also has beautiful illustrations, including, e.g., a great 2012 calendar. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Great Dutch designer (b. 1956) who makes optimal and ingenious use of type. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Digital artist in Breda, The Netherlands, who made some nice posters that showcase Baskerville (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Interesting pages about all of the world's metros: their architecture, history, art, logos and fonts. A partial list of famous metro signage fonts:
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Michael Cina
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In 2012, he designed the tall typeface Towering Heights (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Montreal-based graphic designer. He used the tall hand-drawn poster lettering in vogue since about 2011 for a freehand window display for Citizen Vintage x POP Montreal in 2012. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Michael Russem
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Geneseo, IL-based designer of a noteworthy typographic poster called How In The World (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Michael Vanderbyl
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Michiel Schuurman (b. Amsterdam, 1974) studied graphic design and typography at the Koninklijke Academie voor de Beeldende Kunsten (KABK) Den Haag and graduated as graphic designer in 2002 from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam. He specialized in typography, designs his own typefaces and likes working in black and white. His posters show great typographical originality. His typefaces include Oldskool (1998-2000), an outline face, and Ixopusada (1998). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Portsmouth, UK-based graphic designer who made her own logo for Geekarilla. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Around 2008, making portraits using letters became somewhat of a fad. Wikipedia: Micrography, also called microcalligraphy, is a Jewish art form developed in the 9th century, with parallels in Christianity and Islam, utilizing minute Hebrew letters to form representational, geometric and abstract designs. Colored micrography is especially distinctive because these rare artworks are customarily rendered in black and white. Here and here are some examples. Handpicked by me:
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Raleigh, NC-based designer. He did the logotype and identity for Le Chateau Cinq (2013), a high end French cuisine and jazz fusion restaurant. A merge of Chunk Five and Dubtronic Solid yielded the Chunktronic typeface (2012). His foundry is called the Frankenstein Type Foundry. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mike Perry works in Brooklyn, NY, where he makes books, magazines, newspapers, clothing, drawings, paintings, and illustrations. He has drawn a number of ornamental alphabets that as far as I know have not been turned into fonts (yet). These include Porn Beyond Sex (2010), Alphabet Town (2010), Animalphabet (2010), and Bikini Type (2010). Examples of his illustrations: Six (2009). Amsterdam (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Writer, comic artist and illustrator in Amman, Jordan, who uses some typography in his illustrations, such as in Agent Molotov (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate of FADU UBA in Buenos Aires. He created a typographic posrer called Cubismo (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Samples of fonts in action on signs and billboards. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sao Paulo-based creator of a logotype for a CD cover for Florence and the Machine (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A very nice interactive program by Philadelphia's Miller Designworks that makes a snowflake out of someone's initials printed in a given font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Based in Oslo, this graphic designer created some interesting typographic posters, such as Next Time Cards (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Pune, India.Creator of the custom Golden Palm logo font (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hundreds of pics of dust jackets by famous designers. Interesting typography too! [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tehran-based designer (b. 1987) of a futuristic caps set in 2012, called Future Type. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Monobrauw is a type foundry est. in 2010 by Jorge Páez, a student of graphic design at CEDIM in Monterrey, Mexico. Behance link. He made a typographic phot reportage of Bruges in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and illustrator in Olinda, Brazil, who made a nice poster for a dengue awareness campaign in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The most popular typefaces in the annual reports for 2005 of 60 of Germany's main companies are, in decreasing order of frequency, Frutiger Next, Frutiger, Compatil, Helvetica Neue, Univers, Corporate ASE, Myriad, Helvetica, Minion, and Thesis. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Studio in Stockholm, Sweden, which made this original music poster (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Winner at TDC 27 in 2006 in the poster category with a great piece called Masquerade. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
MWM Graphics
| Matt W. Moore (MWM Graphics) is the designer of Deck of Cards (2011, illustrative caps), Crenshaw and Xacto (2005, typefaces inspired by California scrawl and Xacto knife blades), Alphafont Cuatro (2010, a geometric experiment). Illustrations: Fishing lures, frog. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in New York. Creator of a nice 3d typography poster in 2011. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Noorden, The Netherlands, who created a typographic poster entitled Istanbul (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type specimen book pictures on Flickr. Has some pictures of the 1023 ATF specimen book. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his studies at IES Puerta Bonita in Madrid, Nacho herraiz designed a great typographic music poster for the Salzburger Festspiele (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Belgrade, b. 1979, who created some typographic posters, including Frida in Belgrade (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
San Francisco-based creator of the charming ink splatter logotype Colaito (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in La Paz, Bolivia, who created a nice typographic logotype called Amautta (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
London-based creator of a great handwritten resume in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Long Beach, CA-based graphic designer who created interesting typographic examples including Artacular (2010) and Haberdashery (2010). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer from Elba, New York. He created this excellent type poster in 2009. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nate Williams
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Nate Williams Illustration and Design (or: Letter Playground)
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Bradford, UK-based graphic designer and illustrator who has made a nice poster about the letter I in 2009. | |
Designer in Eureka, CA, of a Futura poster in 2010. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Really interesting way to show that reading distance matters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typographic poster site around the theme of cities. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Type site. Check out the typographic paintings. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nicholas Ainley
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Nick Kelly (Must Design, Bristol, UK) designed an outstanding typographic logo in 2012 for a handbag company called Desejo. He created the typeface Picnick (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nick Sherman
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Russian graphic designer and digital artist from Saint Petersburg, who created these great visit cards. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian graphic designer. His brand identity for Onychos (2011) has many nice typographic elements. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Located in Milan, Italy, this graphic artist is the author at Behance of Bodoni tree (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nontype
| Extraordinary (defunct) cutting edge graphic design company. Their type work, such as the conic Equipoise, is outstanding. Aerosyn-Lex Mestrovic, the designer, is part-time typographer with work experience in his native Buenos Aires and in New York and Tokyo. He is the creative director of both The KDU and The Royal Magazine. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Funny type-based animations by Lycette Bros (John and Mark Lycette) from Melbourne, Australia. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Noupe.com: 50 Incredible Fonts for Professional Web&Print Design | A list of 50 nice free fonts for general use. See also here for a follow-up. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Funchal, Portugal-based creator of some a nice typographic poster in 2010 that uses the Eiffel tower for a movie festival. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
NYC Type
| Photographed vernacular type in New York City. By Luke Connolly. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Saint Petersburg-based designer of the compass and ruler logo for the Tao Restaurant. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Oded Ezer
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Oded Ezer Design Studio
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Another designer at the studio is Michel Sahar. Ezer graduated from Bezalel Academy of Art&Design, Jerusalem, with a Bachelor degree in Visual Communication Design (1998). He teaches typography and graphic design in several academies in Israel and other countries, among them the Bezalel Academy for Art&Design, Jerusalem, the Shenkar College of Engineering near Tel Aviv, the Wizo College of Design, Haifa, and the Mimar Sinan University, Faculty of Fine Arts Graphic Design Department, in Istanbul, Turkey. At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, he spoke on Contemporary hebrew typography as an expression of a new identity. He spoke at ATypI 2005 in Helsinki on Contemporary hebrew typography as an expression of a new identity. About his award-winning posters. The Oded Ezer Typosperma Project. Ezer's Flickr page. His experimental Hebrew typography is discussed by Uleshka in Ping Mag. It deals with a 3-d lettering experiment called Plastica, and describes many other ingenious projects. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. Winner at D&AD 2011 with his typeface Rutz (2011, aka Vesper Hebrew). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Examples of fonts used on magazine covers. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian creator of a nice type poster called The Baseline Grid (2011). She is based in Rome. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Located in Karlskrona, Sweden, Ola Syse made a couple of refreshing Helvetica posters in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Bodo, Norway. Creator of a typographic poster simply called 2009. This was done as an illustration for the 2009 edition of Helse Nords calendar, depicting "a year in northern Norway". Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Russian letterer and logotype designer who made exceptional designs. Check out Optima (2010), for example. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
BA (Hons) Graphic Design student in his final year at Leeds College of Art in 2011. He lives in London. Creator, also in 2011, of a typeface for use as the identity for singer songwriter Emily White. Poster of type faces (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of some typographic posters such as Absolut 90s (2012) and Open (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Australian creators of a great set of futuristic caps called Future (2011). Organ Studio is based in Perth. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Okada (Studio origami) is based in St. Petersburg, Russia. Behance link. Creator of great type posters such as the rope skipper (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A disturbing trend of the past few years---start a photo of visual communication site where people can "drop off" images for display, such as Dropular. No credits, no names of creators, no links to original sites, and thus, each image dropped in this manner constitutes theft, in my eyes, because the link between creator and product is forever lost. I am showing some orphaned alphabets here, in the hope that the creators can come forward, and tell me who they are: Sample 1 | Sample called Morning coffee | Arab "thanks" | Arab "woman" | Arleah | Karsten Schmidt | Martin Malacek | [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Example of on-line adjustment of font weights. By Enrico Bravi, Mikkel Crone Koser and Paolo Palma. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Font samples (gifs) of many shareware/freeware fonts prepared by Simon Gibbs. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Sydney, Australia. She created the themed Ice Alphabet (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at FADU UBA (Buenos Aires). For Cosgaya's course, he designed a nice poster on Bell Gothic (2010). He also made a gothic look face called Revenge (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cordoba, Argentina-based creator of a geometric art deco typographic logo for the band The Ovnis in 2013. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brooklyn, NY-based branding and digital imaging artist. He dabbles in experimental typography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pagan&Sharp
| Queens, New York-based designer and art director. At Behance, he is showing some typefaces he created, such as Malleable Grotesque (2009), and Powell (2009, roman letters). Some of his posters, such as Three Olives Vodka, are also nice. In 2011, Lucas Sharp and Juan Carlos Pagan set up Pagan&Sharp in Brooklyn, NY. Foundry link at MyFonts. Together, Pagan and Sharp published Malleable Grotesque Regular (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Paola Gallo (Lecco, Italy) created a wonderful logotype to express suffocation, called Soffocato (2012). It is a set in a warm plump type, as well as in an Ed Benguiat Interlock style compositionC, created during a course at Politecnico di Milano in 2011 with Giangiorgio Fuga. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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The beautiful typographic designs by Patrycja Zywert (High Wycombe, United Kingdom) include her paperclip logo (2009) and Avocado (2009), and the hexagonal / 3d face Foster (2010) created to celebrate architect Norman Foster. More ornamental art. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
British designer who participated in the Type Tarts competition (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Graphic designer with some beautiful typographic applications in his portfolio. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Paul Shipper (Hamilton, New Zealand but born in Manchester, UK) did the hand-lettering and cover design for a Shots Fired album called Packin Heat in 2012. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Buenos Aires-based designer. She created some beautiful typography-based posters such as one for Audi, and two for Nike (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Paulo Canabarro
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Typefaces from 2013: Moondance, Dalmais (Peignotian fashion mag face), Mers (circular arc font), Camieis (squarish face), Cliche 21 (avant-garde hairline sans), Old Cave (brush face), Aspargo (hand-printed), The Rainmaker (outlined 3d face), Skandar. Dafont link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Brazilian graphic designer who created the free font Fornida (2006-2008). Home page. Check also his Nu Jass lettering. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Portuguese art director and designer who lives in Pavia (Lisbon). His type posters are slick and loud. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Penduka Senaka
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A list of popular, notorious and influential typefaces. By Cam. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
An example of a 1931 ad for Pernod involving Josephine Baker, typeset in art nouveau style. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Pete Lacey (Northampton, UK) is a specialist in branding. I particularly like the type-based logo called Danzk (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Peter Cho
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Unbelievably talented graphic designer in London. Designer in the FUSE 15 collection (1996) of DIY (Foundations and Skeletons). Debutart page. There, we find an architectural B (2011), a poster called Type Countries, martial arts icons, colorful safety icons, colorful departmental icons, a stunning techno wheel poster, Office Icons, a gorgeous typographic bike, an exemplary London city map, a poster entitled Africa, and a Vodafone Head illustration (2011). Bio from his web site: Tilly Northedge and Peter Grundy set up Grundy&Northedge in 1980 because they were both interested in information design. Firstly because it was a totally un-glamorous area of the business which they thought they could change, and secondly because it was less about selling things and more about explaining things which seemed a lot more interesting. Grundy&Northedge spent twenty six years making information visually interesting and in the process developed a way of drawing simple images to illustrate ideas that became their signature. They called it iconography, pictures that provide information and explain complex things. When Tilly left design in 2006 Peter Grundy renamed the studio Grundini with the intent of more extensive iconographic experimentation, not only for the clients who were in effect already there, but newly for customers, people who would see his work and buy one for there home, office or elsewhere. Peter Grundy's previous clients include Shell Oil, Moet&Chandon, Royal Mail, The Guardian G2, The Red Bull F1 Team, Men's Health, South West Trains, Hampton Court Palace and Volkswagen. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
London-based creator of the super-experimental geometric faces Artificer (2011) and Flatland (2011). Home page. Petros is also a talented typographic illustrator---see, e.g., his Blue Heron (2011). An example of his typography for information design: Table Tennis for the 2012 Olympics. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Phil Baines
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Graphic designer (born in 1958 in Kendal, Westmorland) who graduated from St Martin's School of Art in 1985 and the Royal College of Art in 1987. He works as a freelance graphic designer, is Professor of Typography at Central Saint Martins College of Art&Design (now a university) in London (since 1991), runs Phil Baines Studio, maintains Public Lettering (about type found in cities), and is Typographic Advisor to the Central Lettering Record CD-Rom project. He designed FUSE Classic 1, Can You (1989), Ushaw (FUSE 8, FontShop, 1993), Toulon (1994), Horncastle (1994), VereDignum LT Std in Alternate, Decorative and Regular weights (2003, Linotype Taketype 5 collection) and Can You Read Me (FUSE 1, 1991). His pages on public lettering in London. His books include Signs, lettering in the environment (with Catherine Dixon, 2003) and Type&Typography (2002, with Andrew Haslam). Author of Rookledge’s Classic International Typefinder (Christopher Perfect, Gordon Rookledge, Phil Baines). At ATypI 2007 in Brighton, he spoke on From the Motor Car Act to motorways. He has also a good reputation for taking people on typographic city tours, as he did in 2006 at ATypI in Lisbon, and at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. Linotype link. FontShop link. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin in which he explained how he and Catherine Dixon produced the lettering for the Pozza Palace in Dubrovnik on commission for the Serbian Orthodox Church. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer from Australia who now works in Amsterdam, where she became known for her Pink Ribbon Magazine, for which she also did the lettering. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2012, he cretted the monoline octagonal typeface Segmentum, and the poster face Sportiva. Pierfrancesco's logo and typography work includes beauties such as a fish called Aperitivo (2011), and a foot illustration called Walking (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian designer of the beautiful logotype The Flying Lotus (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Czech creator of a typographic dog (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Art director in Wuppertal, Germany, who created a great logotype for the identity of Russian DJ and producer Anton Chekhov in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pinterest
| Lasca sartoris offers links to spicy lettering, logos and alphabets. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
News stories and picture galleries related to graphic design and typography in France. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Spanish designer in Barcelona who made a series of Didot posters in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creators of a couple of nice posters that advertise music events in 2009 in Sabadell, Catalunya. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bangkok-born creator of a number of striking type posters in 2008. Based in London, Pomme Chan runs Pomme Pomme Studio (illustration, design). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Postage Stamps by Type Designers
| Kat Ran Press (Cambridge, MA) has an extensive collection of postage stamps by type designers such as Peter Bil'ak, Neville Brody, Walter Brudi, Wim Crouwel, S.H. de Roos, Adrian Frutiger, Eric Gill, S.L. Hartz, Lance Hidy, Max Kisman, Jan Van Krimpen, Jean-Benoit Lévy, Gerrit Noordzij, Erik Spiekermann, Reynolds Stone, Georg Trump, Gerard Unger, Julian Waters, and Hermann Zapf. The Kat Ran Press was founded in 1994 by Michael and Katherine Russem. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Typographer and graphic designer from Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He designed some nifty typographic posters. He created JPMst (2009), an experimental organic sans family. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Presidential Election Fonts 2008
| Sam Berlow (Font Bureau) is interviewed on New York Public Radio (WNYC radio) about the candidates' fonts. On the same topic, he also published a piece in the Boston Globe. Quotes:
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An on-line service that renders any text in composed pieces of pretzels. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Wellington, New Zealand, who created an original cover for Vanity Fair in 2012 that introduces an analysis of Lady Gaga. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Public Lettering
| A site managed by Phil Baines, who says: This site is based on a walk by Phil Baines for his graphic design students which was then written up for the 1997 ATypI conference. The text has been updated and expanded to include other examples. This walk concentrates on larger examples of public lettering and doesn't mention incidentals - stop-cocks, manholes, dates on buildings, builders marks, &c - of which there is much en route. Much of the pleasure of this kind of walk, is finding things yourself. Although also public, it entirely ignores advertising hoardings, store signs and most corporate identities as these are usually approached as pieces of graphic design rather than opportunities for specialist, site-specific lettering. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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More art than type. Site under reconstruction. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Raban Ruddigkeit
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Illustrator in Toronto. She drew many alphabets, mostly for children's prints. These are not fonts---they are only sold as prints. Behance link. Her shop. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German site with some type clips and moving type projects. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nuremberg, Germany-based graphic designer and illustrator, who did some nice typographic posters in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
While not a real typeface, the photographic alphabet Toothpick (2013) by Raquel Diaz (Logrono, Spain) is nevertheless worthy of mention. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
American creator of type-inspired drawings. She did a David Bowie in 2005 that is quite nice. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Auckland, NZ-based designer of a beautiful learning infographic poster in 2012. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Renato Forster
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In 2009, Forster made the all caps sans face NoType, and made an organic didone, Voor. These typefaces are free. Klingspor link. Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Renato Forster
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Designer in Vienna, who made a nice origami poster for The Japanese Garden in Van Nuys, CA, in 2012. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
René Wanner
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A collection of 22 special alphabets, photographed, cut out, scanned, designed, and distorted. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Ricard Marxer Piñón
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Lettering artist in Odemira, Portugal. He did some windmill lettering commissioned by the Municipality of Odemira for the international day of the mills in 2011. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lisbon-based designer, who created the nice typographic poster London Tower Bridge (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Richard Diaz Granados
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Based in San Francisco, Richard Perez has some nice examples of fresh typography, including a brilliant colorful poster made in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
For his Masters Thesis at the University of Rennes, Richard Simon made a typographically animated short clip of a speech delivered on June 20, 1940 by Charles De Gaulle, then in exile in England, to unite the French resistance in World War II. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Very inventive graphic desiner in San Francisco. He has created great typographic posters such as Gecko (2009), as well as a pixelish experimental typeface called Pheobo (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Digital artist from Bangalore. He made the type poster entitled Vintage Typography (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rick Banks
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Graphic design student at The Manchester College of Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Creator of Logo Typeface (2011), with letters taken from famous logos. He also made a nice Wim Crouwel poster (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Singapore who practices typography there. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Visual communication student at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. During his studies, he created a nice Eurostile poster (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Font software specialist who has written several free font editors such as MEEK 4.0 and FontStruct, both on-line truetype font generators. He is based in Berlin. At Designer Shock in Berlin, ca. 2001, he made the grunge fonts DSHomeBack, DSHomeFront, DSHomeSide, DSHomeTop (2001). At Meek FM, he presents a typographic synthesizer. His fontStruct creations are mostly pixelish: Robby Meeky, floorplan, Johann, Johann Skinny, Johann Small (2008, all fat rounded sans faces), logo (a horizontal stencil face), low_orbit, low_orbit_super_pixel, minimeek_1, Modular Nouveau No. 2 (2008), minimeek_extended, nouveau_modular, plain, sharp, snipped_1, the_first_dot_clone, the_first_fontstruction, tuning_fork, Dilly Dally (2012, possibly by a pretender?). | |
Talented illustrator in Madrid who drew some ornamental caps in 2011. Check also his Ladytron poster (2011) and his fashion illustrations. Robert was born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1977. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Roberto Baldassari
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Based in Naples, Italy, Roberto Cacace did some interesting hand-drawn lettering in 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich
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He wrote Words at Play (with Matteo Bologna, Adobe, 2004), about which he says: This book showcases type portraits of well-known writers in a playful homage to the power of words and the beauty of typography. In 2010, he designed a PDF brochure for TDC in New York entitled How To Make Love To Your Type [and the typophiles as a group are a cranky bunch without a sense of humor]. Typographic picture by TDC, 2009. Another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Rimini, who made a nice typographic poster called Party and Bullshit (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brasilia, Brazil-based graphic and poster designer. He works a lot of type into his projects. Designer of the flowery experimental font Goteira (2006), which I think would be just right to headline a novel on Roman orgies. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Toulouse who created an interesting typographic music illustration entitled Jazz d'Été (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creative director in Paris, whose Galaxy Type Posters showcase various classic fonts in a fresh way, using chords between points on the outlines. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Signage in Rome, photographed by Erik Van Blokland. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
References: Lambiek, Raedwald, Brian Sibley, Ronald Searle tribute. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rotterdam-based designer of a rubber-band-based alphabet called Facade (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator in Malta who did a beautiful piece of lettering called Typestrations (2012) as part of a safe sex project during her graphic design studies. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bloomington, IN-based designer of Deco Alphabet (2012). He also found and letterpress-printed a Bodoni-style typeface found in the Hamilton Wood Type Museum. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ciudad Real, Spain-based designer of a nice typographic poster called Flowink (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Illustrator, typographer and graphic designer in Cape Town, South Africa. Rudi writes about himself: Hailing from Cape Town, South Africa, Rudi de Wet draws his inspiration from the region's hand-painted typographic signs, African fabrics and loves decoration. Presently, he works his magic as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer in Melbourne, Australia. He studied a BA in Fine Arts, with majors in Graphic Design and Illustration from the University of Stellenbosch, where, besides studying, he spent much of his time drinking the town's famous selection of rich, amazing wine. Rudi was one of the founding members of the Am I Collective, a now well-respected and highly sought-after design and illustration studio in Cape Town. He spent three years there, where an average day consisted primarily of hand typography jobs for the likes of Ogilvy&Mather, Saatchi&Saatchi, Network BBDO and Y&R Paris. His outlined 3d face Mzansi (2009) was custom-made for Lowe Bull Cape Town. He designed Unilever in 2010. In 2013, he drew a typographic poster for Husqvarna. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer and web developer in Kelowna, BC, who created a typographic poster entitled Alfred Hitchcock (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Slovak illustrator and book cover designer from the early part of the 20th century. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Russian graphic designer and occasional typographer. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
At Rustfetish, a sample of a photographic alphabet from rusty backgrounds. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Safari typographique Eitienne Mineur archives
| French found type site by Etinne Mineur, professor at ENSAD in Paris. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Great photostream with retro lettering. Also check Saffron's artwork with is concerned with the female eye. Home page in the UK. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Based in Singapore, Sahara Abdullah's logo lettering (2011) for her own brand is quite nice. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Check the beautiful bathroom pictograms used in this French web site that sells bathroom accessories. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sam Berlow
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Sam Knott (London) created a typographic Dia De Los Muertes poster in 2012. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map typography
| Great Victorian and western style posters. Title pages, headings and letterforms clipped, cropped and isolated from maps and map publications issued between about 1880 and 1920. D. A. Sanborn, a young surveyor from Somerville, Massachusetts, was engaged in 1866 by the Aetna Insurance Company to prepare insurance maps for several cities in Tennessee. [..] Before working for Aetna, Sanborn conducted surveys and compiled an atlas of the city of Boston titled 'Insurance Map of Boston, Volume 1, 1867'. [..] The atlas includes twenty-nine large plates showing sections of Boston at the scale of 50 feet to an inch. It is believed to include the earliest insurance maps published by Sanborn. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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A graphic designer in Washington, DC, who runs Sara Studio, and is also known as sara Vienna. Behance link. She uses type creatively in her design projects and posters. See the Ojai Invite poster of 2010, for example. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Vila Nova de Famalicao, Portugal. She created a few interesting typographic posters called Cartazes Tipográficos (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer and illustrator in Coimbra, Portugal. Alternate URL. She created a photographic alphabet, Austero (2010), based on sidewalk stones. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Located in Decatur, IN, Sarah Seitz designed a number of typographic posters in 2013 under the name Typographic Storybook. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Chisinau, Moldova, who created the Taboo Club poster in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2012, Sawdust published Ivory, a stencilish typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Wonderful German site concerned with typography. Plus a German glossary. Small free font archive. Type in use on posters, such as this beautiful 1964 poster by Lou Dorfsman (1918-2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Hilliard, OH, who made some nice logotypes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Sean Somics (Santa Barbara,CA) created the typographic poster Design With Type (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontShop link. Linotype link. Interview in 2008 by iLT. Klingspor link. View Sebastian Lester's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Montevideo-based creator of a typographic poster entitled John Lennon (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Sexy, bold and experimental typography
| Examples of sexy, bold and experimental typography published by Smashing Magazine in a May 2008 issue. By Vitaly Friedman. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Illustrator in Coventry, UK who created some interesting lettering posters such as a tabasco bottle (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Design student in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2012. In 2012, Shavaughn created a bicycle calendar using only typographic building blocks. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
SHCH Graphics Group
| Graphic design, illustration and art direction group located in Kiev, Ukraine, and headed by Andrey Yushchenko. Alternate URL. They offer some beautiful decorative capital letters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Additional URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Shinybinary
| Nik Ainley's art features many beautiful uses of type, such as this poster (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Edinburgh, Scotland-based creator of a typographic poster called The Boy Who Wanted To Play The Violin (2013). She explains: Commissioned by Craigmillar Communiversity in conjunction with newly established Small + Crummy Press to work with illustrator Andrew Crummy to develop a special edition book. The launch of this publication was planned to coincide with the opening of the 'Arts: The Catalyst (for social change)' exhibition at Edinburgh's City Art Centre. The book's first edition sold out on the night! [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Blog related to photographs of hand-painted letters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Silo Design
| Brooklyn, NY-based multidisciplinary design company of New Yorker Susanne Cerha and her Norwegian husband Terje Vist. In the type world best known for their spectaculrly beautiful Flash-based web page Type Is Art, where one can interactively make art from parts of typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Silviana Cosma (Bucharest) created a typographic James Bond poster in 2012. | |
Stockholm-based graphic designer. He created some typographically interesting logos in 2010. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Paris. Home page. Not a type designer, but his Fuck Putin poster (2009) deserves an award. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hanoi-based graphic designer. He created some stunning typographic posters in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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A set of illustrations called Chicks&Wheels: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii. The calendar: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix, x, xi, xii. In 2013, he published a sequel, Chicks and Types Volume 2. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Simone Verza (London, UK) did an ad campaign for Caramelo (2011), which has some nice examples of creative typography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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These guys are selling images of sketched type: 20 type sets for 200 dollars. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Smashing Magazine: 60 Brilliant Typefaces For Corporate Design | Smashing Magazine presents 60 nice commercial font families, following earlier posts like this and this. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Type design and type examples at Smashing Magazine. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Athens (Greece) who made some nice posters in 2011 about an imaginary 2018 FIFA World Cup in Tanzania---great lettering too. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Modesto, CA, who created the ornamental caps face Native Voices (2012). She also made beautiful typographic posters entitled Berlin (2012) and Languages Matter (2012). For Trattortia Sorrent Panini, she made a custom art deco typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
WWII humour involving Helvetica. Taken from the defunct 2002 Honest Fonts site, backed up here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Vacaville, CA. I like the 3d headline face Gazette used by him in a poster in 2011. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Spacejump
| Vladimir Tomin is a graphic designer from Khabarovsk, Russia. Behance link. Paperworld (2009) is an alphabet (not a font) based on crumpled paper. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
A CBC piece by Nora Young on type and words, to be broadcast on April 23 and 26, 2008. It features parts of an interview of Patrick Griffin of Canada Type. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Specimenism
| A net web site by Nick Sherman, which shows oversized specimen of fonts with links to MyFonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
This Swedish web page lists types used in logos: Skype (Helvetica Rounded Bold), YouTube (Alternate Gothic No. 2), Flickr (Frutiger Black), Technoirati (Neo Sans Medium), Webolgsinc (Syntax Bold). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Californian graphic designer, b. 1980. Her work includes a nice typographic poster entitled Phoenix rising in type (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Slovak illustrator and designer from the early part of the 20th century. He did, for example, newspaper illustrations [example from 1934], and book covers [example from 1942]. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Romanian graphic designer who has some interesting typographic work, such as one entitled Adobe. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Stefan Lucut's beautiful multiline lettering. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Examples of the most frequently used screen fonts. In this test, Palatino Linotype, Georgia and verdana come out as winners. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Famous American graphic designer. Examples of his posters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A web portal for phy and design. It has beautiful typographic posters too. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Athens, Greece, whose lettering for a sushi restaurant logo is worthy of consideration. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
UK-based stencil company, located in Ipstones. Samples of their alphabets: a script, Old English, Western. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student from McPherson, KS, who is studying graphic design a the University of Kansas. She created a colorful poster to announce an AIGA event in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator in Stuttgart, Germany, who created some type posters in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Stephen Coles
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Stephen Coles
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Stephen Mellor (Neep Studio, London) created a nice typographic poster in 2012 entitled Live at the Troubadour. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Scottish graphic designer who has produced a few interesting type posters. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Based in Utrecht, The Netherlands, this graphic designer created some interesting typographic posters, such as Seahorse (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pages by Professor Domenico Scudero at the Università di Roma "La Sapienza", showing hundreds of examples of posters, logos and typography in the 20th century. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Stuart Mayhew
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Graphic and typographic design studio in Wroclaw, Poland. Behance link. They are involved in original typographic work and lettering. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Examples of nice typography: 2008, more, and more. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Studio Indigo
| Studio Indigo is run by Swedish designer Helena Öhman. Behance link. Creator of some handlettered pieces in 2012, including a psychedelic Christmas tree, a Valentine's Day card, and an Easter Egg. She also made a geometric typeface in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Bangkok-based industrial designer, b. 1988. Behance link. Creator of the typographic poster Doodots (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Foundry where one finds these typefaces: Sampler, Mother (comic book style), Fun Fair (merry-go-round lettering), 1971, Construct (two stencil faces), Midnite Cowboy, Cheap, Unit Three (T26, kitchen tile lettering), Mundane (rubber stamp lettering), Mindgap, Sit! (squarish lettering), Problematic2000 and Scaffold. The design of their main page is fantastic! Scan of an event poster. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A tribute to Joan Trochut-Blanchard modular type system, Supertipo Veloz (1942) by a Catalan group that includes Andreu Balius and Alex Trochut. It includes a nice sandbox. It was started in 2003. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Susanne Cerha
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Art director and designer in Yogjakarta, Indonesia, who made some nice typographic posters in 2010. Another link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
I am guessing that she probably was a French poster artist at the height of the art deco movement. Nick Curtis claims that his Soda Jerk NF font is based on this poster by Musson entitled Remiremont Vosges, Chemins de Fer de L'est. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Singaporean graphic design student who made a nice typographic illustration of The Year of The Dragon (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Suzanne Sweetman from Dublin, Ireland, drew the ornamental caps alphabet Creatures (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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An example from 1970 of the hundreds of newspaper titles set in blackletter. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
His typefaces: Bikini (2010, fatty poster face), Skizzenfont (2009), Palast Black (2008, ultra fat), Pestorino (2008). He also did a great typographic job in his Foch Flyer (2010) and Mückenschwein logo (2008). Arapix12 (2012) is a Latin-Arabic pixel font with very special capabilities: every Latin and Arabic glyphs are designed within just 12 pixels, which is especially reduced for fitting Arabic extended ascenders and descenders. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
American architect who did the beautiful typography on a monument in Toronto in 2008 honor the thousands who died in the forest of Katyn during the German invasion. Report by Jake Bauming. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tagxedo
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Irun, Spain-based illustrator. Designer of the typographic poster Nacionalsocialismo (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Signage pictures from the Parson School of Design. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2010, she designed the map face Cartola, which grew out of a project at EINA in Barcelona and is based on Mrs Eaves. Mar 34 (2011) designed exclusively for the identity of Estruch, a restaurant located at the Plaza of the Cathedral in downtown Barcelona. The project was made in collaboration with Raquel Quevedo, who used the typeface for designing a graphic system for the identity. Both the face&the graphic design are based on postal service paraphernalia. Momo (2011) is a typeface that is developed based on the concepts of dada by El Lissitsky&Kurt Schwitters. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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London-based freelance designer. He created some nice typographic posters of Baskerville (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Birmingham, UK, who made a type poster that illustrates Religion is the opium for the masses (a saying by Karl Marx). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and painter (b. San Francisco, 1981) who created the free hairline octagonal face Pomegranate in 2007 for Neo2, a Spanish magazine. She also has many nice typographic posters in her gallery. In 2008, Dick Pape captured some of her work in his scanbat typeface Tauba Auerbach. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Taylor Lane
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Taylor Lane Typography
| Sexy compositions of letters in the shapes of pin-ups by LIDA Agency in the UK. Creative and Art Director: David Harris. Typographers: David Harris, Justin Shill, Stuart Addy, Jan Hansen. Additional URL. Miss Bodoni, Miss Meta, Miss Sabon, Miss Serifa, Miss Perpetua, Miss Bembo, Miss Joanna, Miss Gothic. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
This Dutch designer created a nice typographic poster in 2012 entitled Hier brandt altijd licht. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tess Bader (Las Cruces, NM) draws well. She made a nice typographic poster that introduces herself. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Interactive viewing of text set in various fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The Best Type Book with No Typesetting
| Gene Gable scanned many pages of Studio Handbook Letter&Design for Artists and Advertisers (1927, Samuel Welo). This book has 233 pages and is entirely hand-lettered! [Google] [More] ⦿ |
As reported by the Dallas Morning News on February 26, 2009, a forgery was discovered by a chronological anomaly: Lucille Hester, the 69-year-old former school teacher who provided the "goosebump moment" of Bob Hayes' Pro Football Hall of Fame election last weekend, tried Wednesday to answer thorny questions about type fonts. Hayes' family members have questioned the validity of the letter she read to a national TV audience, noting in particular a "Bob Hayes" signature they say is obviously forged. Lucille Hester showed the now-controversial letter to the media after the Hall of Fame announcement last weekend. But on Wednesday, the focus turned to the letter's typeface. At The Dallas Morning News' request, one of the world's most noted typeface designers examined a photo of the purported Hayes letter, which was dated Oct. 29, 1999. Dutch designer Luc(as) de Groot said the letter's typeface is "definitely Calibri," which he designed for Microsoft in 2003. It was not available to the public until the debut of Microsoft Office 2007. Hayes, the former Cowboys receiver and Olympic sprint champion, died on Sept. 18, 2002. Hester has said Hayes, whom she identifies as her half-brother, signed and gave her the letter in 1999 while visiting her in Washington, D.C. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Design and illustration studio in Melbourne. One of its illustrators is Paul Nolan who created some interesting type-based posters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
TJOUT is dedicated to the documentation and study of signs, word fragments, and typography created with utilitarian intent in urban environments. It is not really a "jpournal", but rather a collection, Flickr-style, of photographs of type found in cities. Archive. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The Keystone Design Union (or: KDU) is a design studio in Brooklyn, NY. Behance link. Creative diurectors David Gensler, Jared Liner, Josh Vanover, and Zach Shuta created some fine retro posters in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
American art student who made a Bodoni type anatomy poster in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The logos of Web 2.0
| Stephen Coles identifies and classifies the fonts used in some of the best web-specific brands. He declares lime green to be the official color. His categories are
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The Movie Title Stills Collection
| A large data base of movie title images collected by Christian Annyas (Amsterdam). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Essen, Germany-based designer of the experimental neon light alphabet Generativ Jazz (2011). Not a font, I think. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The Typehead Chronicles of Thomas Christensen
| Information and specimen of all historically important typefaces: Akzidenz Grotesk, Aldus, Antique Olive, Avant Garde, Avenir, Baskerville, Bell, Bembo, Bodoni, Bulmer, Caslon, Centaur, Century Old Style, Cheltenham, Dante, Frutiger, Galliard, Garamond, Gill Sans, Goudy Old Style, Granjon, Helvetica, Janson (Kis), Minion, Mrs. Eaves, Optima, Palatino, Perpetua, Sabon, Syntax, Times New Roman, Today, Trump Medieval, Univers, Walbaum. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Font connaisseur. Author of "Ce monde odieux" (2001). Bitstream font samples. Other font samples. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Examples of the main Bitstream fonts, compiled by Thierry Bouche. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Amiens, France-based creator of a set of capital letters in 2012 to illustrate different graphic principles. In 2012, he created the didone typeface Futago (Latin, hiragana, katakana), which is intended for fashion mags. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch inventor of the skin alphabet (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Thomas Christensen
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Graphic designer from Lier, Belgium, who made an expressive and hilarious type poster that features Didot and Helvetica (2010). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Thought Bucket
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Votarantim, Brazil-based designer of the techno logotype Singol (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of a typographic poster called Ride Your Bicycle (2012). This work was done during his graphic design studies in Duluth, MN. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Todd Hart is co-founder and creative director of focus2. Todd is a graduate of the Communications Design program at the University of North Texas, and is an adjunct professor at UNT. In 2008, he designed a number of Halloween-themed icons based on letters from typefaces, such as Dracula is Grotesk, WolfMan from Helvetica, and Frankenstein in Franklin Gothic. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Extraordinary use of typography in posters, by Toko in Sydney. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tom Ahn designed a nice Garamond poster in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Freelance designer in Gdansk, Poland. Behance link. He created a nice type poster called M for Mathematics in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Venice-based graphic designer who created a great calligram called Moka in 2012. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Russian graphic designer and occasional typographer. TommiArt home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The typophiles are showing many nice examples of handlettering. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Standard page for drawing in readers to look at good free fonts. Links, but no downloads. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Atlanta, GA. Home page. Mayhem 594 (2009) is a nice example of blackletter type in use. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hong Kong-based typographic poster artist and designer. Check for example, his "love poster". [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
For the Annual Tweed Run in London in 2011, a nice typographic poster was created. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
TypArchive
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Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Type Crime: Rated R
| An animation by Jay Miller in which four capital R's battle it out: Helvetica (quirky), Arial (big and sloppy), Futura (kicking from the groin), and Interstate (on a cane). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
A Flickr group for traffic sign typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typecalendar
| One type play per day. By Roberto de Vicq. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Typechart
| On-line type testing and type previewing tool. The CSS code is generated on the fly and ready for use. Compare Windows Cleartype rendering with Apple font rendering. By Penduka Senaka. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Typecube
| Manuel Kiem created a Rubik's cube-inspired rotating cube that yields various letters by proper rotations. It is called the Typecube (2007). Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Typeface
| Documentary made in 2008 by Justine Nagan about the Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Two Rivers in rural Wisconsin. Justine Nagan has produced or helped produce various films at Kartemquin Films. She has a Masters Degree from the University of Chicago, 2004. Another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Font pages for all popular or historic faces, made by students in a typography class. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typegoodness
| Frederik Samuel's showcase of beautiful typographic work. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Type posters and examples of good typography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typemuseum
| A great pictorial archive of type used in hundreds of contexts all over Europe. Its director is Markus Hanzer from Vienna. Established in 2001. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Type-themed & type-inspired iPhone & desktop wallpapers for typenuts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lots of interviews and radio clips, nicely organized by person, font, location, and event. This will be a vlauable historic record of the state of the art of type design. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tour of Italian typography, as found on the streets, buildings, and in daily life. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typo Trip --- Typography on the Road
| W. Mejor's site on found type in many countries. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Typographic posters from the collection of the National Museum in Poznan, at the Miejska Galeria Sztuki in Lodz, Poland. Featuring type-based posters of five designers, Philippe Apeloig, Takenobu Igarashi, Tadeusz Piechura, Taku Satoh, and Ruedi Wyss. Especially the work of Taku Satoh from the early nineties (neo-ornamentalism) is quite impressive. Letters are constructively worked into futuristic designs and ads. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typodarium 2009
| Typodarium is a typographic one-sheet-per-day wall calendar by Lars Harmsen and Raban Ruddigkeit (2009, Verlag Hermann Schmidt). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Typogenerator
| Great free on-line utility that generates a typo poster randomly using correlated images found by google. This is a student project by Katharina Nussbaumer, done in the summer of 2004 at the Fachhochschule Hagenberg in Austria. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
This site showcases typographic posters by a few hundred graphic and type designers. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typographic Safari in Singapore
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Type samples from Chicago gathered by students at Loyola University Chicago. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typography Mania
| Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography design works on the web, from type videos to images everything is full of great design and typography inspiration. Users can submit their typography designs. It is managed by Paulo Canabarro, a web designer from Brazil currently living in Providence RI, USA. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Flickr group on typography and signage in the fifties. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Romin Favre's playful and imaginative use of letters in his art. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typoretum
| Justin Knopp graduated with a BA in Graphic Design from Central Saint Martins College of Art&Design in 1994. Now, he runs a letterpress shop in Colchester, UK, and makes beautiful cards (among other things). He also has a blog. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Typotopo
| Peter Cho's web page with many type experiments. He explains: TYPOTOPO is a collection of works loosely themed around typography, virtual spaces, and technology. Digital technology can allow for new ways to express visualand textualmessages. Craft plays an important role in our digitally-mediated world. Through the experiments on this site, I am exploring how craft can apply to software artifacts, interactive systems, and other works created using the computer. Peter Cho won a Tokyo Type Directors' Club TDC 2002 awar for his interactive typography, "letterscapes". Letterscapes is a collection of twenty-six interactive typographic landscapes, encompassed within a dynamic, dimensional environment. In each landscape, a letter of the alphabet serves as the starting point for a playful, mouse-driven experience. Peter Cho is a designer and programmer based in San Francisco. He holds a masters degree from the MIT Media Laboratory. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Illustrator from Quilmes, Argentina. She made a typographic cover for a book on food design in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Vanderbyl Design
| In 2006, TDC 27 gave an award for logotype design to Michael Vanderbyl and Ellen Gould of Vanderbyl Design in San Francisco. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Milwaukee, WI, who created a Caslon poster in 2010. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian art director who made a nice personalized metro map / poster called RATP Maligne (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Vernacular type is the term often used for found type or type in the real world. At ATypI meetings in Lisbon and Mexico City, Marina Chaccur and Priscila Farias spoke about Brazilian vernacular type. Farias identified interesting sources including type used for cattle branding, or types found on the doors of blacksmiths. In urban Brazil, graffiti and lambe lambe provide rich sources of vernacular type. Blogs like Villatype refer mostly to urban typography. With the advent of Flickr, there were bound to be groups like The Center for Vernacular Typography. Phil Baines has almost made a profession out of it---he often takes people on walking tours of London, and delighted type aficionados at ATypI in Lisbon with his city walk there. But, in fact, not just building and traffic signs, but also graffiti and all other type found in the urban or rural landscapes can be called vernacular. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The Finnish Law Institute logo (2011) is cleverly designed by Vesa Rantanen. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A blog regarding hand-made alphabets (not typefaces). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
London-based graphic designer and illustrator, who created some nice typographic illustrations. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in London. Behance link. Ramen (2010) is a great high-contrast typographic poster for an imaginary fashion mag. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at Washington University in St Louis, MO, who excels at illustrations (A Day in Chennai (2012) is my favorite series). He created a great ornamental caps alphabet called Foodie in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Villatype
| Mandy Milks' blog about type found in public spaces. See also here. Based in Toronto. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Art director and graphic designer from New York City. He created some great type posters in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Vincent Hadi Wijaya (Jakarta, indonesia) made a nice Helvetica portrait of himself in 2011. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of several multicolored type experiments from 2005-2008. The pictures below are taken from the thesis of Thomas L'Excellent. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Popular image site that has interesting subsections tagged by letter, font, type design, typeface, typo, typography, lettering and alphabet. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Vitaly Friedman
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Graphic designer in Bauru, Brazil, who created the ball terminal typeface Pitoresca (2013). He also has done a few extraordinary calligraphy-filled animal drawings in 2013. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Vladimir Tomin
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Von Puttkamer made a nice typographic poster entitled Cocain. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mumbai-based designer of some typographic posters such as The Dirty Martini (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
W. Mejor
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A collection of wanted fonts via This is Solitaire, Derek Kinsman, André Mooij, Greg Ponchak, Travis Stearns, Loïc Dupasquier, Tom Muller, Jonathon Toon, Allan Yu, Ivan Cruz and Berger & Föhr. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Argentinian design firm with nice typographical examples. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Argentinian studio located in Buenos Aires. Behance link. One of their branding projects, called Craneo, led to a nice typographic development of an Italian logotype. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic design student at the Willem de Kooning Academy who lives in Delft. She is passionate about lettering, and has drawn a few alphabets in 2012. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Based in Arnhem, The Netherlands, this web site glorifies nice typographical contributions in advertising and presentations. It is also a place of study: The Werkplaats Typografie (WT) is part of ArtEZ Institute of the Arts. WT is a two-year masters programme centred on practical assignments and self-initiated projects. It also serves as a meeting place for graphic designers with regard to research and dialogue. The WT is supervised by Karel Martens and Armand Mevis. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Whitney Titling and Whitney Sans are fonts developed by Tobias Frere-Jones (Font Bureau) for the Whitney Museum from 1995-1996. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer from El Segundo, CA, who did a beautiful typographic poster/experiment called Sunsilk (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Automated on-line creation of text in randomized fonts and layouts. Software by Jonathan Feinberg. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Worth is a font family developed by Font Bureau for Worth Magazine from 1995-1996. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Spanish poster artist, whose lettering on this poster entitled "Ricardo Llacer y Hijos" from 1948 inspired Nick Curtis to make Little Rickey NF. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Costa Rican graphic designer who made some typographic posters such as one called Cello (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and photographer in Sofia, Bulgaria. Behance link. He created the bullet hole alphabet Quadroval (2010). He also did some typographic posters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Matilda (2012) is a sans typeface designed together with Max Gregory and Joe Warburton. The same trio set up Form and Writing in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Avant-garde sculptor, painter and novelist, b. Nagano prefecture, Japan, 1929. Her Google Doodle work (2013) can be seen here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Designer in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Her company is called Shiny Design. Creator of the fat rounded multicolor alphabet The Shiny Face (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Irene Scala is a fellow typophile and graduate of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, where she had the opportunity to study with educators such as Paul Rand, Lou Dorfsman, and Milton Glaser. After earning a B.F.A. from the Cooper Union, she went on to postgraduate study at The Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. She now lives in New York City, where she is associated with Designing with Type: Designingwithtype.com is a web site devoted to the art and appreciation of typography. It offers a unique typographic resource for students, educators, and professionals, showcasing talent from around the world. Originally created by James Craig as a supplement to his popular textbook Designing with Type specifically for his Cooper Union students, it has grown to include contributions presented by fellow educators and designers to embrace a wider audience. Designer of a wonderful logotype entitled Cognac One (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Turkish graphic designer who made a colorful typographic poster called Pantone (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type introduction clip on YouTube by, hmmm, WhatTheFuckTV. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
YouWorkForThem (was: Cinahaus, or TrueIsTrue)
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Cina's fonts include the pixel fonts Caliper (1998), 6x7oct (1998) and BlackGold; the handwriting font Cinahand; Blessed (1999, techno), Cam (1998), CommunityService, Crossover (1998, dot matrix with stars instead of dots), Composite (1998, octagonal), Formation (1999, a big octagonal family), Jute, Maetl (1999, octagonal, angular family), Novum, Pakt, Reversion (1997, squarish), Selector, Selek (1998, pixelish), Service (2001-2002, an octagonal family), Trisect (1999, three-lined family, now also available at Veer), Unisect (1999, organic monoline sans), Ultramagnetic (1998), Ultramagnetic2 (1999), Unfinished. Bastard (1998), Kcap6 (with Matt Desmond), Cheese (1998), Novum (2002), Overcross (2002, unfocused letters), Stem (1998), Testacon (with Kral and Desmond, 1999). Alternate URL. Interview. Other typefaces: Praun (2002, pixel faces), OneCross (2002, pixelish stitching family), Estenceler (2004, a great stencil family), Graphium (2004, octagonal Western style family), Expos (2004, graffiti or poster face), Vox (2007, monoline sans), Militia Sans (2007, like a Russian constructivist stencil), Jupiter (roman), Militia (2007, heavier stencil), Merc (2007, grunge), Guild (2007), Clarendon Text (2007, a complete revival), Jezebel (2007, script), Ambassador Script (2007, a digital revival of Novarese's typeface by that name), Enam (2002, influenced by Crouwel), Enigmatic Hand (2007), Dusty (2007, a Tuscan-eared Western font), Poplock (2007, experimental), Pakt (2007, geometric sans), Sudsy (2007), Black Sabbath (2008, ultra black slab serif, by Stefan Kjartansson), Agostina (2008), Bitwood (2009, pixelish western face), Mullino (2009), Trithart (2008, grunge by Emma Trithart), Tapscott (2008, in the style of Rennie Mackintosh), Habano (2008, script), Amorinda (signage script), Retron (2008, connected script), MD01 (medical-themed dingbats), Adelaide (script), Centennial Script (calligraphic), Alexia (calligraphic), Ultramagnetic (experimental), Nash (1997, grunge), Amber (kitchen tile), Fab (3d), 6x7 Oct (1998, pixels and dots), Wool (2009, stencil), Matter (2009, a wide bold grotesque), Merriam (2009, slab serif). Blog. His lovely g poster (2010). House fonts at YWFT by unknown designers: Dogma (22012, alchemic), Attic (sppoky poster face, in EPS format), Riblah (2003, dot matrix), YWFT Fraktur (tattoo face). |
Russian-born graphic artist and illustrator, who is the author of some great typographic posters and designs. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer and illustrator in Bonn, Germany. In 2012, he made a wonderful ornamental caps face, World Font, which illustrates 26 of the main scripts in the world today. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Yvan Berqué (Luna, Menen, Belgium) created a great typographic logo for a tapas bar called L'Epoque in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Milwaukee-based graphic designer who made a Didot Typography poster in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brno, Czechia-based graphic designer. Check out his Meat Typo work (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Buenos Aires-based illustrator and graphic designer. He designed some remarkable logos in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kiev-based designer of a beautiful curly logo for the coffee shop Cacaofée in Bonn (Germany) in 2012. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Zoomorphic calligraphy
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A Kalamazoo, MI-based designer working on 
Palo Alto, CA-based designer of a stunning 
Handletterer and 
Designer in Toronto (b. 1986, Siberia) who has some nice botanical illustrations in her 
Barcelona-based grandson of Joan Trochut of Super-Veloz fame. Fantastic graphic designer in his own right. He is the codesigner with Andreu Balius of 
Architect and graphic designer in Atlanta, GA. Amberlee created Josephine (2011, headline caps). She also created some fashionable calligraphic headline posters against child labor in 2011, based on 
A Hungarian designer in Sydney, Andras created some interesting typographic examples such as 
Andres Sanchez lives in Greenville, SC, where he does graphic and web design. 
Parisian editorial designer, who created a typographically interesting calendar in 2011 entitled 
Graduate of RISD. She created expermintal alphabets such as 
This guy is something else---I can't find enough superlatives to describe his work. A very creative freelance graphic designer from Budapest, he is best known for his experimental 
Art and type experiments at Universita Autonoma de Mexico, which sets out to prove that the real world is coming to an end and visual reality is taking over. Check out 
Bordeaux-based studio which specializes in hand-made lettering. 
Creator of a poster called 
Prague-based designer. He created an innovative set of ornamental capitals / icons for 
Senior at The University of Kansas who will graduate in May 2011 with a BFA in Visual Communications, concentrating in Graphic Design and Illustration. She created 
Chad Geran is a cartoonist and illustrator in Regina, Canada. 
Seoul-based graphic designer who spent some time in London. 
Student in 2010 of Jennifer Kennard at Seattle Central Community College. In her class, she designed a beautiful typographic 
During her graphic design studies, Chloé Marchand (Paris) designed a poster in 2012 for the exhibition of 
Student from Atlanta, GA, who made a great 
Brussels-based graphic designer. He created very funny typographic posters to advertise Humo in 2013. 
Designer and lettering artist in Austin, TX, who created the warm display face 
German creator in Trier of a typographic robot called 
Social site about art that represents and depicts cities in which the artists live. Examples include 
Art director in Brooklyn, NY, who created some remarkable ornamental caps, such as 
Daily Type is a creative project run by four Russian type designers. Regularly updated page with many new type designs and ideas. Based on a concept of Yury Ostromentsky & Dasha Yarzhambek, the site features designs by Yury Gordon, Yury Ostromentsky, Dasha Yarzhambek, Dmitry Jakovlev and Ilya Ruderman, and was launched in 2005. Daily Type is a creative project run by several Russian type designers. Day by day, they create original typefaces and post their results along with routine. [
For a truly fun psychedlic lettering appication, check out 
Los Angeles-based designer, sign letterer and illustrative typographer. The TDC Annual in 2009 shows 
Graphic designer in Chicago, who made a nice typographic poster called 
David Delahunty is convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that code/programming can add a fresh element to design. He used a program to create experimental glyphs in an imaginary alphabet, 
New York City-based writer and editor who designed several nice book covers that employ innovative typographic styles. [
Montreal-based graphic designer who made a great typographic poster called 
Creator of 
Designer from the state of Washington. Doug Fast started the trend of revitalizing Victorian lettering and signs. As an advertising designer, he created the K2, New Balance and 
Russian artist and software specialist who was written an on-line HTML creator called Typograph. 
Sheffield, UK-based graphic design student who created a 
I had a good laugh when I saw Emiliano's 
Erik Marinovich runs Friends of Type. He is the creator of some 
Designer in Leon, Mexico, who made the classical roman face 
Eve Kuo (
Examples of a 2006-2008 style of typography with frills and swashes, spearheaded by the designs of Si Scott. Others in this "movement" include Hydro74, Marian Bantjes, Ginger Monkey, SHCH, Lee25, Maria karkova, Doug Alves, Daniel Gordon, Craig Ward, Nick Keppol, ElBarbon, Joao Oliveira, Lily Piyathaisere, Dhanank Pambayun, 5ive, Bechira Sorin, Fabio Sasso. The list and the examples were compiled by Daniela Zatti, a graphic and product designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil. [
Graphic designer in Lisbon, Portugal. In his oeuvre, I especially appreciate the typography in his 
Wood type picture group. [
Marta Podkowińska is the Polish designer of a few great type logos such as Bomba (2009). She also made the exquisite 
Bournemouth, UK-based graphic and type designer who made some bling type posters, and created a 
Graphic and 
An Italian type foundry by Milan-based type designer Giangiorgio Fuga, ATypI member, teacher of typography at the Istituto Europeo of Milan, Politecnico of Milan, Italy and Unisinos of Porto Alegre, Brasil. His great 
Golova is a community of graphic designers, illustrators and art directors in the UK. 
Very talented Pistoia, Italy-based designer (b. 1982). 
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Helena Öhman (Studio Indigo) is a Swedish illustrator. 
Kasper Ledet made a great handlettered 
Jakarta-based creator of a beautiful set of posters in 2012 for an event called 
Brian Jacob (Detroit, MI) created the illustrative alphabet 
Andreas Gustavsson (Jagjavi) is a Swedish designer, b. 1979, located in Nyköping. Creator of the simple handprinted face Kohicle 25 (2009). See also his waxy letter studies from 2010. 
Graphic designer in Chicago, IL, who used typography optimally in his 
Graphic design student at KASK, Gent, Belgium. At 
Designer in Edmonton, Alberta, who created the techno family Powers (2011), the squarish monoline family 
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Aka Jonathan Looman. Dutch type and graphic designer. 
Josip Kelava (Jay Kreative, Australia and UK) is an art director and graphic designer. He has done typographic work for fashion mags and fashion-conscious ads such as for 
Creator in Utica, NY, of the display typeface 
Phenomenally imaginative graphic designer from Sofia, Bulgaria. He created some great typographic posters in 2010, such as those of a 
Graphic designer from Raleigh, NC. Recent graduate from the College of Design at NCSU. Creator of a 
You've got to like the poster by Glasgow-based 
Fine artist, fashion photographer and graphic designer in San Francisco. She created 
Torontonian creator of a lovely typographic poster entitled 
Design student in San Francisco who made the fun typre drawning called 
Brian Jaramillo's page that highlights remarkable work by type designers, letterers, sign painters, graffiti artists, stone carvers, calligraphers, poster artists, and graphic designers. Its founders are Brian Jaramillo and Ray Frenden (a custom letterer), and frequent contributors include Jonathan Selig, 
Typographic artist in the UK, whose work includes a series of ruler-and-compass constructions of letters. Images: 
Celebrated Milan-based calligrapher, letterer and illustrator. Examples of his lettering include 
Designer (b. 1986, San Francisco) who lives in San Francisco, but is listed at 
Designer in Madrid, who created a nice 
Jacksonville, FL-based graphic designer. He created the 
Jastrzebie Zdroj, Poland-based designer of the typographic 
Creator of these typefaces for 
Graphic design student at Westerdals School of Communication in Oslo. Creator of a nice typographic logo called Reach (2010). She also created a high-contrast art deco face called 
There have been many type faces since 2000, so Noronha's work in 2011 is a bit of a late addition to the crowded field. Nevertheless, he shows a nice sense of humour in his designs, so I am linking to it. Examples: 
Designer of a great 
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Based in Gold Coast, Australia, Melissa Mcarthur designed a great almost-art nouveau logotype in 2013 called 
Berlin-based 
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Student at MNSU in Mankato, MN, who lives in Vernon Hills, IL. He made a text-based 
Rio de Janeiro-based graphic designer. Her 
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Nate Williams is a designer and illustrator in Washington. Creator of the free font 
Hong Kong-based designer. A school project for an imaginary lifestyle store 
Givatayim, Israel-based Hebrew type design studio in London established in 2000 by one of the main Hebrew type designers of today, Oded Ezer (b. Tel Aviv, 1972). Ezer designed the award-winning font Mayai (Hebrew script: awards at 
Check out the 
Design student in Uberlandia, Brazil. In 2011, he created a great letter-based 
The 
Zurich-based award winner at TDC55 for 
Aka Skomii. Austrian creator of the hand-printed typefaces Erasaur (2013), 
Croatian graphic designer in Zagreb who made a stunning 
Paignton, UK-based designer who did some interesting type experiments. 
Freelance graphic designer. Stones inspired Pierfrancesco Annicchiarico (Grottaglie, Italy) to design the experimental typeface Secco (2009). The Cà brùtta building by Giovanni Muzio in Milan got him to design 
San Leandro, CA-based designer of 208 (2009) and Mouse (2009), experimental faces. 
Sao Paulo-based creator of a typographic poster entitled 
As a reaction against HypeForType and other hyped up outfits, No Hype For Me (
Torontonian creator of a beautiful and thought-provoking 
Robert Boyall (Norwich, UK) created a 
Brazilian graphic and type designer. Bembo's Zoo is Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich's children's book with all drawings integrated with glyphs from Bembo. He also published 
Ronald Searle (b. Cambridge, 1920, d. 2011) was a British cartoonist. He survived the Japanese death camps in Changi in WWII. In 1960, Ronald Searle was the first non-American cartoonist to receive the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award. 
Talented illustrator in Trier, Germany. His illustrations have 
Got to like the swashy lettering in the 
During studies at IBD in Mumbai, Sandeep Suman Mishra created a 
Design studio of Rob Gonzalez and Jonathan Quainton located on London's Hoxton area. Creators in 2009 of two art deco custom typefaces for Middle Boop magazine, and of many other types for visual identities and projects. One, 
His typographic work/
Graduate of Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. Started out designing fonts for [T-26] and Garagefonts, but is also (or, perhaps, mainly) a 
Moscow-based graphic and print designer, whose lettering in his logos is stunning. 
The digital images by Si Scott will blow you away. He is a master at creating images that escape from letters. Wonderful typography and type art. 
Graphic designer in Darmstadt who created an erotic alphabet called 
Fonts made from letters taken from fonts--that is what 
Great Italian illustrator in Firenze. 
Indonesian designer of the beautiful typographic poster called 
Athens-based designer. She created 
Graphic designer in Prague and Katowice, Poland. 
Calligrapher and illustrator in Rehovot, Israel. She made some 
Born in 1980 in Chambéry, France, he studied at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee in 2007, and has been working in Berlin since then, mainly as a type designer at LucasFonts, where he specialized in Arabic type, as a graphic designer at the mückenschwein publishing house, and as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator. 
This was bound to happen. We now have a typographic tag cloud portrait generator and server. Admirably, it uses only free fonts, and free color palettes. The blurb: My name is Hardy Leung and I'm the creator of Tagxedo, an online tool that turns words into stunning artworks. Examples: 
Talented Mexican graphic designer and digital artist based in Montreal, who is pushing the boundaries of experimental typography with creations like Fabric Type (2009), which was developed at Concordia University in Montreal. Examples: 
Graphic designer from Portugal who obatined a Bachelors in Graphic Design from ESAD.CR in Caldas da Rainha, and a 
TypArchive.com is the brainchild of type designer Richard D. Granados. The concept was to build an ever-growing typographic image archive featuring various disciplines, styles, specimens, techniques and oddities. Photographs are classified by region, and by object. Includes car typography and 3d typography. Contributions by 
Art design studio that outputs some interesting typographical work such as the 
Vitel Tomas (Usti nad Labem, Czechia) created a 
UK-based creator of 
Graduate in Visual Communication from Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore. Now based in Tampines, Singapore, Yeo Yu Xin created Didot Zebra (2013), a typographic illustration based only on parts of glyphs in Linotype Didot. [
Istanbul-based creator of a hilarious type poster called 
Michael Cina (Minneapolis) is the cofounder of WeWorkForThem and 
