Art work from the Sequences Real-Time Art Festival from back in 2008, proves that not only is milk good for your bones, but it’s good for font design too. Providing you’re willing to make an awful lot of mess.
The 2010 version of the festival runs from October 30 to November 7 in Reykjavík, Iceland.
Art direction, illustration, typography & design by Non-Format for the new Magnetic Man 12″.
Look at how the light version of the typeface in the second image takes its form from the bold ‘M’ of the very bold and striking Magneto Man logo.
If you use your noddle like these guys, custom typeface design needn’t be so hard, but it sure will look hot.
Google Earth is more than a tool for checking out your neighbours geraniums. In the hands of Dutch designer Thomas de Bruin it’s a tool for developing a full font set – including capitals, lower case, numbers and punctuation – from locations all over the Netherlands.
Our Junior Art Director Jade reckoned it took him ‘like, for ever’ to find the whole font set. Apparently though it took him ‘about a week’, which makes it even more of an achievement. Type-nerds tip your caps please.
If you work with type or have any interest in typography, you’ll understand how challenging laying out type well can be. The thing about good typography is that when you do it well only other type-nerds notice. Do it poorly and it can stand out a country mile.
Antonio Carusone’s 8 Simple Ways to Improve Typography In Your Design is a great article that covers the various problems designers face when setting type and how to best approach them. leading and no more hanging quotes for you.
Not everyone will notice but the sense of satisfaction will be worth it, and those in-the-know will know.
Nice use of typography in ads for the Citeoën 2CV; a car whose visual appeal might have seemed a little less obvious.
A bit harsh perhaps, but the ads are proof that the mid 70’s were great years for design and the arts at least.
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Type: It’s all around you. It’s in the air that you breathe.
Ok I go too far, but it is all around you. That we can agree on.
From hand drawn and charismatic to the clean and clinical, The Daily Type series showcases how type is used in so many innovative ways in so many places, all around the world.
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Look up in the sky. it’s a bird! It’s a plane?!!? No, it’s the award winning project Type The Sky – A Photographic Alphabet and package design from Lisa Rienermann, using shots of some very close city streets.
Thinking to yourself ’she couldn’t manage a whole type face with style’? Oh yes she can!
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Delphic – This Momentary from Delphic on Vimeo.
Stunning artwork from Indie band Delphic, by one of our favourite agencies Non-Format.
With stylish photography, well crafted typography, and die-cuts* to die for, you don’t even have to like the music to appreciate the band’s brand, though the music does have its benefits too.
Need proof? Then check out the This Momentary video, beautifully shot amidst the hardships of life in Ukraine.
