New identity for Mercer Supply Co by Peck & Company
Peck & Company gave Mercer Supply Co. a typographic barber identity that leans hard on its letterforms rather than on the usual barber tropes.
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29 curated projects in typography.
Alex Trochut’s Penguin Books Galaxy Series
Alex Trochut's Penguin Books Galaxy Series covers let striped and outlined type carry Heinlein and Gibson.
Erman Yilmaz
Erman Yilmaz threads white type through looping gradient ribbons, then sets outlined capitals over dense grey waves.
burkhardthauke
burkhardthauke overlaps cyan, red and white shapes under black outlines, cutting large white letters apart so no word lands whole.
Meg Hitchcock’s Text Drawings Made From Religious Script
Meg Hitchcock glues thousands of individual letters from religious texts into drawings that dissolve the words into pure form.
Hack: an open-source typeface designed for source code
Hack is a free, open-source typeface made for source code, drawn by more than 60 contributors. The specimen shows four cuts and the glyphs programmers use.
Design Facts
Design Facts collects design trivia — Frutiger's three years on Univers, Glaser's National Medal of Arts — under a two-line serif wordmark.
Spector by Fiona O’Leary
Fiona O'Leary's Spector is a hand-held orange device with a white T emblem and a clear base, lowered onto printed columns of type.
James Lewis’s Hand Lettering on Kraft Paper
James Lewis lettered this in white on kraft paper with a paint marker, and left the pen in shot — calligraphic flourish, honest medium.
Alphamix by Mirko Camia
Mirko Camia's Alphamix turns letters into objects: a candle A with a lit wick, a glass B filled with faceted orange shapes.
Fischli and Weiss’s ‘How to Work Better’ Mural in New York
Peter Fischli and David Weiss's ten-point list stands fifty feet tall over Houston and Mott Streets, installed with the Public Art Fund.
Playtype’s Pop-Up Show at ARAM, London
Playtype, the Copenhagen type foundry, took over ARAM in London with a pop-up of posters, mugs and stationery — Scandinavian type as objects.
Bastl Instruments branding by Anymade Studio
Anymade Studio's identity for Bastl Instruments is black type on white labels, each instrument given its own lockup.
Typographic experiments by Mark Richardson
Mark Richardson of Superfried made a poster series of single uppercase letters, each manipulated with modern shapes and blackletter traces.
Daikoku Design Institute’s ‘Block’ Typeface
A typeface cut from stacked paper sheets by Japan's Daikoku Design Institute.
Seita Kobayashi’s ‘News Paper’ Poster
Seita Kobayashi's 2015 poster 'News Paper' — typography doing the work of a headline.
Sans Serif Prints by Daniel Barkle
Daniel Barkle's typography posters turn Arial, Bebas and other sans serifs into black sheets where each letter is drawn as wireframe structure.
A colorful typographic identity for Get Set festival
Epiforma gives Get Set Festival a broken-letter identity: arcs and blocks in red, yellow and blue, reused across the posters and rebuilt into the title.
Identity for The University for the Creative Arts by Spin
Spin's identity for the University for the Creative Arts is a block-built UCA monogram that turns from letterform into pattern.
An illustrated alphabet inspired by nature
Valérie Hugo drew an illustrated alphabet in ink, building each letter from flora and fauna: a dahlia, curling leaves, a toucan on a B.
Tim Jones photographer typographic identity
Australian photographer Tim Jones commissioned a typographic identity built on a compact T, J and P monogram.
Electronica: isometric type posters by Neil Stevens
Neil Stevens builds the word Electronica from isometric blocks wired like circuit diagrams: orange and blue on black, then yellow on red.
Linotype: The Film
A feature-length documentary about the Linotype, the type casting machine Thomas Edison called the Eighth Wonder of the World.
Hampus Jageland
Art director Hampus Jageland's work pairs a black-and-white hooded portrait with a reversed-out A and the words GANG OF FOUR.
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