In the right hands typefaces can really come alive. This type experiment – courtesy of graphic designer, photographer and illustrator Paul Hollingworth –uses repetitive linear shapes to form letter forms.

Expect to see this one bouncing merrily down your stairs soon.

A really nice minimalist player and visual mechanism by Build for ‘Close’ – an anonymous music collective – comes slightly undone by a webpage that annoyingly rescales the image and has no pause on the player. The beautifully shot images by Benjamin Grillon are in a very high resolution, so you can scale them until your hearts content. but it’s the ‘scaling down’ that is the issue.

Bit of a shame, as this promo site looks pretty damn sexy. The music’s not too shabby either (I’m particularly feeling Beam Me Up). It’s worth noting that the Build boys are some of our favourites in the design stakes. It’s just that a little bit of polish in the programming / coding department would have seen this project do more than come close, but hit the mark entirely.

Before texts, before email, there was pen and paper; two ancient mediums that were as precious as they were personal.

Annie Vought takes the precious to new levels with her work that includes the painstaking process of enlarging hand-written letters/doodles and cutting away the negative spaces with an X-ACTO knife.

If you’re folks used to pass letters in the playground when they were kids at school, show them this and watch their jaws drop.

New type by super lick foundry HypeForType, who just turned two and are looking good for it.

Custom type is all the rage didn’t you know, which is why HypeForType offer the latest in Haute Fonture. I didn’t make that up, they did.

Wiley isn’t so much raising the bar, as he is defining where it should be set.

Apparently music is supposed to be a young man’s game. Over the last few years in particular, Wiley is showing that it’s really a smart mans game, with an alternative approach that continues to keep his growing audience guessing.

1:10 -1:17, second from left – an old skool move that may not show his age, but definitely shows mine.

This vibrant, unpredictable typeface by I Love Dust for Nike Running Club showcases the thing those crazy runners love doing and the many places they love doing it.

What do you do when you stumble across a nice idea? Well if you’re the guys and gals at Effektive you develop the hell out of it to create full typeface that’s as simple as it is abstract.

According to the website they’d not even developed the font with a design job in mind, but there is now something in the pipeline. Watch this space…

A rather tasty typeface from illustrator Lucy Wragg.

From lettuce leaf to runner bean. From broccoli to leak. It’s all about the dedication to typographic food refinement.

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.

*shapes cut from paper or other materials