Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Typography”
I attended the launch of the latest issue of Advance and also acknowledging 15 years of the magazine at Unitec. It was a great opportunity and a pleasure to work with Marcus Williams and Mary de Ruyter on this latest issue which was championing cybersecurity and the research in that field that is being carried out at Unitec. View project in …
Washington DC has its first official font. All of the city’s communications will be set into Neutra, the same typeface used by the beloved hamburger chain Shake Shack. Lots of cities have adopted official typefaces for their districts or transportation systems. Some, like Eindhoven in the Netherlands and Chattanooga, Tennessee, use custom fonts. New York City’s subway system is awash in Helvetica, and London …
6 Great Contemporary Alternatives to Helvetica I have gathered a collection of 6 grotesque fonts that are widely used on minimal designed websites lately. Also, they are a perfect choice if you want something else than Helvetica. All of them are very contemporary, and can be applied in a broad range of contexts and media. So here is the list: …
Originally posted Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan on Gizmodo.com No one seemed to notice him: A dark figure who often came to stand at the edge of London’s Hammersmith Bridge on nights in 1916. No one seemed to notice, either, that during his visits he was dropping something into the River Thames. Something heavy. Over the course of more than a hundred illicit …
Expletives and Art seem to make the perfect pair. A simple word can invoke an emotional response or set a specific tone, which makes it a powerful tool for designers and artists to convey their message. In this post I feature thirty examples of profanity filled typography designs which will either entertain or offend. Either way, they’re probably not safe for work …
Arial is everywhere. If you don’t know what it is, you don’t use a modern personal computer. Arial is a font that is familiar to anyone who uses Microsoft products, whether on a PC or a Mac. It has spread like a virus through the typographic landscape and illustrates the pervasiveness of Microsoft’s influence in the world.Arial’s ubiquity is not …
Showing the studio’s excellent typographical work for Rio 2016.
Star typeface designer Tobias Frere-Jones explains the challenges of using Helvetica Neue as an operating system font. For the first time ever, Apple is ditching Lucida Grande as the OS X system font in favor of Helvetica Neue, which also happens to be the iOS system font. For an operating system that’s used by 80 million people, that’s no small …
Very nice identity system roll out from Anton Repponen for Estonia’s Olympic team. Anton Repponen is Fi’s Global Creative Director. He was born in Russia and raised in Estonia. In his own time he loves to experiment and concept via Repponen.com. One of his latest creations is a conceptual design for Estonia’s Olympic uniforms. What was wrong with the 2012 uniforms? During …
Animography Animography is a great collection of animated typefaces. The Big Zoo A nice poster found on Typostrate. Void Some cool type experiments by Nora Demeczky. Target Practice numerals Taking aim, experimental numerical style. Ampersand A nice screen print by Darren Booth.
A beautiful san-serif font from Ultralinx with a even more beautiful collection of font manual and usage examples.
Each year since 1990 Takeo Paper, a major Japanese paper manufacturer, has hosted a paper art exhibition to select awesomeness in paper. The most recent winner was paper craft artist Makoto Sasao, who wowed the judges with his prize winning entry titled ‘Togari Hiragana.’ Meaning pointed hiragana, Sasao used a single piece of paper to create a 3D representation of …
Not Strong Mark, Famous Logos Recreated Using Comic Sans. In his series ‘Not Strong Mark’, Russian designer Oleg Tarasov has recreated several famous logos using the typeface known as Comic Sans…
