Fonts

MONDAY 23RD FEBRUARY 2009

Jenny blogged this on the Vis Com Blog - Thanks Jenny! I will have a look through the site later and sign up, free fonts.

http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl/index.html

Oded Ezer Typography

FRIDAY 30TH JANUARY 2009

Just spotted this blog update on here by 'Isobella', Thanks Lewis!

http://www.odedezer.com/

He is a typographic artist, logo and type designer. His studio is based in Israel. There is a link to his flickr blog as well.

i would like to be a pony dot com

I would like to be a pony is the online portfolio of Benjamin Lambinet.

21-19

FRIDAY 23RD JANUARY 2009

www.21-19.com

FormFiftyFive blogged this design company who have some really cool work ... their branding and identity work is high end, well executed, lovely use of typography and colour.

The Guardian - G2 - The Obama Speeches - A Collectors Edition

Inside todays Guardian G2 was a special issue on The Obama Speeches. Typographic takes on various speeches by designers formed the illustrations for the article ...
David Carson

Alan Kitching

Sean Freeman

Mario Hugo

Barnbrook Design

Peter Horridge

Paula Scher / Pentagram

Amazing letterpress poster ...

THURSDAY 8TH JANUARY 2009

I came across this letterpress poster by Cameron Moll on ilovetypography.com

Found Type Website

WEDNESDAY 7TH JANUARY 2009

Neil posted this link to the vis com blog.
Wanted to put it on my blog as a reference site!

Found Type website

Yulia Brodskaya - Graphic Design and Illustration

MONDAY 8TH DECEMBER 2008

Yulia Brodskaya has done some of the illustrations for todays Guardian G2 paper.

Here are a couple of examples:





Here are a couple of examples from her website as well:







As well as finding her work interesting, her website is really nice. The layout and the flow of it works really well so I have included it in my research for our Screen Based Project.

Daren Newman - Hand Rendered Typography

FRIDAY 5TH DECEMBER 2008

Me and My Pen - hand rendered type by Daren Newman.

Sean Rees

MONDAY 1ST DECEMBER 2008

Sean Rees has a really nice portfolio. I particularly like his work for Vodafone:




and his Love/Hate Helvetica poster for a debate with the design community is so well executed - I think it works really well:

Studio Punkat

MONDAY 1ST DECEMBER 2008

I came across some of the work of Studio Punkat through ilovetypography.com.

I really like the use of mono and colour in these designs. The logo is particularly nice as well.




I tend to use a lot of black and white in my design work, mono tones. I need to start looking at introducing colour as it is something I don't feel overly confident with. I think both of the designs below are good examples of introducing a colour to an essentially typographic design:

MONDAY 17TH NOVEMBER 2008

I just came across this blog ...

http://graphichug.com/

I really like this by Katherine Hughes! She delved into her font book and came across some terrible typefaces 'hiding typographic gems' as she puts it! In the form of Ampersands ...