typography

Kandinsky Font

July 19,2012

Istanbul based artist Sinan Buyukbas recently combined Kandinsky's colors and geometric forms to create quite the inspired set of sculptures. If you're wondering who Kandinsky is, well, you should probably brush up on your art history... But in the meantime, here's the basic rundown: Russian-born Wassily Kandinsky was a painter, a ...

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The edding 850

April 5,2012

Peak behind the scenes at Bern and Buro Destruct, a Swiss design collective headed out of Bern. The video is a great look into how the collective stays so creative, but even better, it chronicles the construction of a digital typeface for the edding 850 pen, a fat tipped felt ...

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Handmade Type

March 14,2012

For all the typography nerds out there, here's a fun one for you. Tienmin Liao is student at the Prat Institute with no shortage of interesting ideas, the most recent one being Handmade Type. Drawing shapes onto one or both of her hands (that can't have been an easy task) she then ...

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Lessons in graphic design : Words as images

October 14,2011

Let's get this straight once and for all : typography does not equate font. People often get the two mixed up, and if the French use of the word "typo" ( pronounced tee-poh, a condensed version of "typography") to designate "la police" aka "the font" and designate actual typography is ...

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Movies & TV Poster Typography By Jerod Gibson

September 15,2010

One-time designer and now creative director Jerod Gibson has most recently produced work that brings together some charming typography and a few iconic illustrations. The series incorporates well known quotes as well as dialogue from famous films and television series that we've all grown to know and love. ...

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