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Social Network Poster

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Whoever the designer for this poster was, they know a bit about typography.

Very nice kerning and leading (letter and line-spacing), and look how the single 'A' is bumped up to fill the line space.

Social Network Trailer

The Anatomy Of Type

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Type Trouble?

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Complify And Simplicate

 

Smoke some soup. Sip a cigarette.

Handmade Fonts

Do very much like how Hand Made Fonts re-imagine 26 letters and arm-twist us into reconsidering the alphabet.

This Estonia based design company was founded in 2008 by Vladimir Loginov and Maksim Loginov who say they "specialize in developing unique, untraditional fonts. We take inspiration from everything that surrounds us."

Type-lovers, this blog is for you.

Talent You Should Know : Graham Clifford

A typographer from the old school, Graham Clifford has designed several new fonts, but his true skill is in combining fresh-to-the-eye type with bold design.

Go on, have a rummage through his drawers.

London Underground Logo

The creator of this ageless logo is sadly unknown, but one can imagine him or her toiling over a set square and compass to produce  this glorious design.

The roundel––in earlier years known as the 'bulls-eye' or 'target'--was first used in the 19th-century as the symbol of the London General Omnibus Company: a wheel with a bar across the center bearing the word 'General.'

Its usage on the Underground stems from the decision in 1908 to find a more obvious way of highlighting station names on platforms. The red circle with blue name bar was quickly adopted with the word "Underground" across the bar.

Mind the gap!

Type Ladies

Matt Sutter depicts his subjects using letters and punctuation from one of four fonts: Baskerville, Helvetica Neue, Bernhard Modern and Avenir.

Some of the type was blown up and rotated in order to create the images, but the text is otherwise unaltered.

"No letterform has been skewed, stretched, flipped or any other bastardizing technique," says the Philadelphia artist behind the portraits, "so the letters are pure as the driven snow."

Even if his images are not.

Matt Sutter

 

Talent You Should Know : Si Scott

What's really sets Si Scott's typography apart from many others is that his work is all entirely hand drawn.

Able to take the driest and most over-used fonts and give them new life, he's one of a new breed of type designers who searches further than Helvetica.



Si Scott Design

 

Talent You Should Know : Ork Posters

Graphic designer Jenny Beorkrem has created this delightfully whimsical line of neighborhood posters of Chicago, Brooklyn, Manhattan, San Francisco and Boston in a style she says "is characterized by originality, simplicity and modernity focused on form more than function."

The perfect house-burning gift.

Ork Posters

 

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