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Expressive Lettering and Calligraphy by Sergey Shapiro

Igor Ovsyannykov — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:16:03 +0000

Sergey Shapiro is an independent graphic designer from Moscow, Russia. He specializes in calligraphy, custom lettering, logotypes, typography, t-shirt designs and much more. His amazing work is heavily influenced by modern freestyle techniques, a wide range of writing tools, and a strong passion for clean expressive style. His work is bound to inspire any graphic designer who appreciates minimalism. Enjoy!

Stefanie & Brandon

Critically Acclaimed | Logo for a clothing label from UK

Dunked Logo

Trblmkrs Logo

Streathers Logo

Bananastreet Logo

Teelocker | Hong-Kong based clothing label

Linden | Tattoo design for Stuart L. Crawford

Ena Nuts | Logo for a clothing designer based in Moscow, Russia

Burnt Toast | Logo for a motion graphic company from Canada.

Do More Than Just Shop Campaign by Caava Design

Igor Ovsyannykov — Fri, 10 May 2013 03:19:07 +0000

On Black Friday, people across America run to stores like sheep and act irrationally towards fellow human beings. Why? Because they want to acquire stuff they don’t need. Getting up early to buy stuff that you may not really need just because the price is half off is not a justification for joining the insanity. Unless your purchase is rationally justifiable, you should not be wasting your money. I applaud people who actually use their brain and clearly understand this huge gimmick that people fall for every single year.

Gimmick? Yes, I said gimmick. However, let’s be 99.99% honest….it’s basically a huge scam. I rarely see incredible deals. You have to realize how this operation works. Majority of retailers create these hilarious ”door buster deals,” by selling you the worst selling items of the year or getting rid of their old inventory. It’s common sense. Why in the world would they actually sell you an incredible, well reviewed product, that’s highly reliable, made by a quality company, and sold at a loss? Think about it…

Hope you enjoyed the mini rant, now let’s talk about these awesome posters. Behance is packed with talented creatives, and I recently stumbled upon a hidden gem. Back in 2012 Ember Arts approached Caava Design with a special campaign idea for Black Friday “Do More Than Just Shop”. The project does a great job at promoting generosity towards others. I completely understand that this post is a bit late, but it’s not about Black Friday. It’s all about the message being portrayed. Receiving gifts is good, but giving is better. The following posters are well designed and very thought provoking. Enjoy!

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15 Enlightening Books for Typography Enthusiasts

Igor Ovsyannykov — Mon, 06 May 2013 07:07:52 +0000

If you’re a graphic designer or typographer, intimate understanding of typography is vital for your success. If you’re looking to improve your skills and learn more about typography, then you’re in luck! Today we collected must read books for passionate typography lovers ranging from practical to philosophical. Be sure to read the descriptions to pinpoint what you’re most interested in. Enjoy!

U&lc : Influencing Design & Typography

U&lc magazine (Upper & lower case) was a defining voice in graphic design worldwide between 1970 and 1999. It was in some ways a lifestyle magazine for the design community providing a fascinating intersection of popular cultural and graphic design in the last quarter of the 20th century. The list of editorial contributors to U&lc is long, and many prominent designers worked on designing entire issues. Their best work is showcased in this book through the reproduction of selected covers, stories and illustrations from the nearly 120 quarterly issues that were published. This book also contains an introduction and four informal but in-depth chapters on the background, context, use of design and typography, and the people involved in making U&lc happen over the years.

Buy $127

Dangerous Curves: Mastering Logotype Design by Doyald Young

Dangerous Curves attempts to show both emerging and expert designers how, in an age of computer-dominated design, the designer can turn to their very own hands for both inspiration and solution. The only way to create a logotype that is truly unique is for the designer to transcend the limitations of the available fonts and typefaces on the market. Dangerous Curves provides a roadmap for that very worthy endeavor.

Buy $100.00

The Form of the Book: Essays on the Morality of Good Design (Classic Typography Series)

Where do the best contemporary fonts come from, and who designed them? Fortunately for us, typography for most designers is an obsession, one of the purest forms of design, one that can always be improved and refined. Selected by the world’s most knowledgable and well-connected graphic-design commentator, Steven Heller, this book gets into the minds of designers who create typefaces, word-images and logos through their private sketchbooks.

This collection of typographic explorations, arranged by designer intimately reveals how over 90 of world’s leading designers and typographers continually strive to find new and exciting ways of communicating through letters and words. Established designer and up-and-coming talents include Ivan Chermayeff, Carlos Segura, Milton Glaser, Maira Kalman, Bob Aulfudish, Matthew Carter (US), Javier Mariscal and Patrick Thomas (Spain), Erik Spiekermann, Viktor Nübel (Germany), Peter Bilak and Enkeling (the Netherlands), Jean Baptiste Levée (France). The result of these wide-ranging typographic musings provide fascinating insights into the expressive quality of letters and words. Aimed at all those who use type, whether by hand or on screen, this pleasing compendium stresses the importance of good typography at a time when reading habits are changing and celebrates a craft that has endured for centuries.

Buy $27.02

Emigre No. 70 the Look Back Issue: Selections from Emigre Magazine 1-69

During the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, graphic design was experiencing one of its most exciting and transformative periods. The Apple Macintosh computer had been introduced, design schools were exploring French linguistic theory, the vernacular had become a serious source of study and inspiration, the design and manufacture of typefaces was suddenly opened up to everyone who could use a computer, and for the first time in the United States, New York City was no longer the place to look for the latest developments in graphic design.

And in Berkeley, California, across the bay from Silicon Valley, Emigre magazine, like no other, recognized the significance of the events, and became both a leading participant and a keen observer of this innovative international design scene, generating a body of work and ideas that still resonate today.

Buy $153.89

The 3D Type Book

This book is the most comprehensive showcase of three-dimensional letterforms ever written, featuring over 1,300 images of more than 300 projects by more than 160 emerging talents and established individuals and studios including Sagmeister Inc, Vaughan Oliver, Milton Glaser, Alvin Lustig, Louis Danziger, Roger Excoffon, Paul Elliman, Marian Bantjes, Geoff Kaplan, Clotilde Olyff, Italo Lupi, Marion Bataille, Antoine+Manuel, Frost*Design, Mervyn Kurlansky, Non-Format, Oded Ezer, Rowland Scherman, Post Typography, Rinzen, Underwares Type Workshop, J. Kyle Daevel, Ji Lee, Pleaseletmedesign and Strange Attractors Design. As well as pioneering milestones from as far back as the 1940s, this book focuses on recent and brand new typographic projects. 3D type specialist Andrew Byrom explains the context and motivation behind these innovative works in an insightful foreword.

Buy $19.87

Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design’s Golden Age

Seen in everything from wedding invitations and birth announcements to IOUs, menus, and diplomas, script typefaces impart elegance and sophistication to a broad variety of texts. Scripts never go out of style, and the hundreds of inventive examples here are sure to inspire today’s designers. Derived from handwriting, these are typefaces that are stylized to suggest, imply, or symbolize certain traits linked to writing.

Their fundamental characteristic is that all the letters, more or less, touch those before and after. Drawn from the Golden Age of scripts, from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, this is the first compilation of popular, rare, and forgotten scripts from the United States, Germany, France, England, and Italy.

Buy $21.45

Thinking with Type

Thinking with Type is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication, from the printed page to the computer screen. This revised edition includes forty-eight pages of new content, including the latest information on style sheets for print and the web, the use of ornaments and captions, lining and non-lining numerals, the use of small caps and enlarged capitals, as well as information on captions, font licensing, mixing typefaces, and hand lettering.

Throughout the book, visual examples show how to be inventive within systems of typographic form—what the rules are and how to break them. Thinking with Type is a type book for everyone: designers, writers, editors, students, and anyone else who works with words. The popular online companion to Thinking with Type (www.thinkingwithtype.com) has been revised to reflect the new material in the second edition.

Buy $15.87

Detail In Typography by Jost Hochuli

How is it that text can be set perfectly and yet look insufferably dull? How do you achieve perfect congruence between the type itself and its meaning? In Detail in Typography Jost Hochuli, master book designer and author of the seminal Designing Books, addresses the finer points of setting text. Hochuli begins with a consideration of how human beings read, moving on incrementally to considerations of letter, word, and line as well as word-space and line-space. Hochuli concludes by examining whole paragraphs and how they carry meaning. Produced in Switzerland to the highest standards, Detail in Typography embodies critical thinking and articulate design in its own physical form.

Buy $95.43

Language Culture Type

Language Culture Type grew out of the first international type-design competition, the 2001 Bukva:raz!, whose goal was to promote global cultural pluralism, interaction, and diversity in typographic communications. The book lavishly presents the winning entries, along with information about each typeface, its language, and its designer. A series of essays gives context for the interplay of types and languages in the world today — including the attempt to mesh all existing scripts into a single digital encoding system called Unicode. It also delves into the specific issues around developing typefaces for the many linguistic cultures in the world, from the various Cyrillic letterforms to Vietnam’s ancient ideographic script.

Buy$35.95

Penguin by Design – Phil Baines

Ever since the creation of the first Penguin paperbacks in 1935, their jackets have become a constantly evolving part of Anglo-American culture and design history. By looking back at seventy years of Penguin paperbacks, graphic designer Phil Baines charts the development of British publishing, the ever-changing currents of cover art and style, and the role of artists and designers in creating and designing the Penguin look—including Penguins, Pelicans, Penguin Classics, and more. Rich with stunning illustrations and filled with details about individual titles, designers, and even the changing size and shape of the Penguin logo itself, Penguin by Design shows how covers become design classics.

Buy $20.00

Creative Characters: Interviews with Font Designers

Creative Characters is a collection of in-depth interviews with the most influential typeface designers in the business as well as up-and-coming young guns, who discuss the motives and methods behind type.

The list of designers includes Jim Parkinson, Underware, David Berlow, Alejandro Paul, Veronika Burian, Rian Hughes, Cristian Schwartz, and many more. Jan Middendorp is a freelance editor, writer and designer working in Berlin. He has written for magazines on design such as Eye, Typographic, Etapes and the Netherlands’ leading magazine on design Items. He also works as consultant and editor for companies such as Linotype, MyFonts and LucasFonts.

Buy $23.52

The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst

Renowned typographer and poet Robert Bringhurst brings clarity to the art of typography with this masterful style guide. Combining the practical, theoretical, and historical, this edition is completely updated, with a thorough exploration of the newest innovations in intelligent font technology, and is a must-have for graphic artists, editors, or anyone working with the printed page using digital or traditional methods.

Buy $21.04

I Wonder by Marian Bantjes

Quirky, poignant, astute, funny—this beautiful book presents a compelling collection of observations on visual culture and design, written and illuminated by world-renowned typographic illustrator Marian Bantjes. In Stefan Sagmeister’s telling words, Bantjes’s work is his “favorite example of beauty facilitating the communication of meaning.”

Buy $27.99

Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield

Typefaces are now 560 years old, but we barely knew their names until about twenty years ago, when the pull-down font menus on our first computers made us all the gods of type. Beginning in the early days of Gutenberg and ending with the most adventurous digital fonts, Garfield unravels our age old obsession with the way our words look.

Just My Type investigates a range of modern mysteries, including how Helvetica took over the world, what inspires the seemingly ubiquitous use of Trajan on bad movie posters, and what makes a font look presidential, male or female, American, British, German, or Jewish. From the typeface of Beatlemania to the graphic vision of the Obama campaign, fonts can signal a musical revolution or the rise of an American president. This book is a must-read for the design conscious that will forever change the way you look at the printed word.

Buy $14.40

Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles, Vol. 1

This book offers a novel overview of typeface design, exploring the most beautiful and remarkable examples of font catalogs from the history of publishing, with a special emphasis on the period from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, when color catalogs were at their height. Taken from a Dutch collection, this exuberant selection traverses the evolution of the printed letter in all its various incarnations via exquisitely designed catalogs displaying not only type specimens in roman, italic, bold, semi-bold, narrow, and broad, but also characters, borders, ornaments, initial letters and decorations as well as often spectacular examples of the use of the letters.

The Victorian fonts, sumptuous and sometimes unbelievably outrageous, are accorded a prominent place in this book. In addition to lead letters, examples from lithography and letters by window-dressers, inscription carvers, and calligraphers are also displayed and described.

Buy $61.84

Iconic Typography Prints by Pete Ware

Igor Ovsyannykov — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 02:01:11 +0000

With the world moving into a digital age it’s easy to believe that printed material is on its way out. Pete Ware, a freelance designer specializing in personalized one-of-a-kind prints, doesn’t agree with this theory and believes everybody has a space in their heart for a well made print. Recently I stumbled upon Pete’s film character based typographical prints and became very impressed with his work. For obvious reasons I decided to share it with all of you today. Enjoy!

Note: You can purchase the prints listed below on Etsy.com.

Yoda

Ferris Bueller

Ron Burgundy

Bruce Lee

Transformers Optimus Prime

Star Wars Luke Skywalker

Darth Vader

Han Solo

C-3P0 and R2-D2

Boba Fett

Terminator

Leon and Mathilda

Rocky Ivan Drago

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40 Remarkable Examples Of Typography Design #10

Designraid — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 07:47:10 +0000

Today we present you the latest findings from the wonderful world of typography design. We hope this collection will serve as a great resource for your typography inspiration. All the following works were hand-picked based on quality, and every image is linked to their original source. We do not take credit for any of there work, however we do take credit for scavenger hunting the Internet!

Note: All of the images are linked to their original source.

When life gives you lemons by Greg Christman

Do The Twist

French Toast

Asian American Film Festival 2012

Victory is Sweet

Personal Typography 2013 – Billelis

Start Where You Are

Here’s to the crazy ones Poster

Spend Your Life Creating Something

BKLYN by Darren Booth

What doesn’t kill you makes you weaker

Success lab

Success by Joash Berkeley

Dead Astronauts by Jonathan H.

Play Gritty by George S.

Words Tend to be Inadequate by Chris Piascik

Type or Die by Luigui Carrillo

Book of Lions

Live For Adventure by Drew Melton

Knowledge Speaks, Wisdom Listens

Handmade Type Experiment by Tien-Min Liao

Designraid — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:03:19 +0000

Tien-Min is a New York based communication designer focused on graphic design and branding. After getting a B.A. degree in Advertising, she won The Ministry of Education Scholarship to advance her education at Pratt Institute, and will graduate in May 2013. Her work has been published in such publications as Asia-Pacific Design, IdN Extra, How Magazine, Apportfolio Asia and many more.

Tien recently finished a project called “Handmade Type.” This self-initiated typographic experiment explores the relationships between upper-case letters and lower-case letters, and also records the transformation between them.

In this experiment, I drew shapes with ink on one or both of my hands, manipulating my gestures into the corresponding shape to signify an upper-case letter. Then, using the same shape on my hands, I manipulated mygesture or changed the perspective through which the shape is viewed in order to transform the upper-case letter to a lower-case of the same letter. Removingor redrawing the darkened shape on my hands is not allowed in the experiment. The only way to make the model transform from an upper-case to a lower-case (orvice versa) is changing the gestures or the perspectives. - Tien-Min

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Exceptional Typography and Graphic Design Posters by Faried Omarah

Designraid — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 07:09:02 +0000

Faried Omarah is a senior architect, graphic designer, and typographer from Cairo, Egypt. We recently found his exceptional typography and graphic design posters on Tumblr. We feel that his work is unique and should be shared. While some might think that these poster are dark and gloomy, we believe they provide a unique perspective on different ideas. Have an open mind while viewing them, we hope you enjoy!

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Fine Branding & Typography from BMD Design

Designraid — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 08:51:35 +0000

In a tough competitive environment and a world saturated with information, companies need a good communication strategy. In all its work, BMD Design seeks to seduce and surprise, but also to demonstrate and convince. Located in Bordeaux, France, BMD specializes in typography, visual identity, signage, publishing, advertisements, and apparel design. Seeing their work has inspired us to share it with others, which we are accomplishing today. Being in business since 2001, BMD definitely understands quality and demonstrates value throughout their work. Enjoy!

Montres MONA

IESVS ROCK

Fuel Motorcycles Branding

TWTH – Atelier

Hand lettering Engine Block

Hand lettering – Fine art by BMD Design

Breakout Lettering Crafted by Erik Marinovich

Designraid — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 06:21:03 +0000

Erik Marinovich is a talented letterer and designer based in San Francisco. He is also a co-founder of Friends of Type and has worked for big name clients such as New York Times, New York Magazine, Newsweek, The Atlantic Monthly, Wired, Metropolis magazine, GAP, Diageo, and Nike. He was recently named Letter Cult’s Person of the Year 2011. Currently Eric does lettering for a living and serves as a prodigy to any upcoming typography artist. Listed below are solid works from his vastly growing portfolio. Enjoy!

Bloomberg Businessweek

Forever Dusty

Office

PINK

Friends of Type

Wired Magazine

8 Faces Magazine

The Fox is Black

Go Font Urself

DraftFCB

The Manual

50 and 50 – States Motto Project

Toronto Life Magazine

The Number Mill

DwellStudio

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