As a designer, we all know how difficult it is to make complex information easier to take in through compelling and effective visuals. ‘Driven by the frustration of creating graphs within design applications and inspired by typefaces such as FF Beowolf® and FF PicLig™, designer Travis Kochel saw an opportunity…
Pick Me Up returns to Somerset House for its seventh year and for this year, London-based design agency Hato is inviting everyone to use their digital tool to create a letter which will be used in Pick Me Up 2016’s visual identity, from publications and signage around Somerset House to…
Posterzine is our monthly publishing project where a poster meets a magazine in the form of a gorgeous A1 format poster (594x841mm) which folds down into an A4 monograph. The sixth issue features our very own multi-award winning graphic designer James Lunn. After our first five issues, you may have noticed that…
Géraldine Pace and Louise Harling are two French graphic designers who graduated from ESAG Penninghen in Paris. After freelancing for some years, they decided to create Inthepool Studio, bringing together their passion for deconstructed typography and super-coloured forms, as well as a certain love of the 80s. Inthepool Studio was…
Similar to books, I think typefaces are a timeless source of inspiration. A Is For Apple is another type foundry worth a look. Set up in 2010, ‘A Is For Apple’ is a Paris-based independent type foundry with a growing collection of typefaces carefully created by Émilie Rigaud. Thanks to…
The one and only two-month long annual typography festival, Typomad, has returned to Madrid with the theme ‘Testimonies: What’s Behind Typeface Design’. Four venues, two days of conferences, three exhibitions, four workshops, three type safaris, Typomad is now back to celebrate contemporary type design and support the design scene as…
Berlin-based design studio ‘HelloMe’ has revealed its latest publication project which is a comprehensive collection of written works by artist Irena Haiduk entitled ‘Spells’. Published by Sternberg Press, Spells is a new title that marks a new narrative step. It consists of Haiduk’s texts and limited editions including manifestos, music…
World-leading font company ‘Monotype’ has announced the new exhibition at the Old Truman Brewery and this time Monotype will present you with a seven-day show on the type designs of Eric Gill. To celebrate the past and future of the most acclaimed typefaces, Monotype has added new weights to make…
Nantes-based independent type foundry and design studio BB–Bureau have just released a new typeface designed exclusively for the stupendous design magazine Kiblind. This new design swings between playfulness and classical grotesque drawing, utilising irregular shapes and asymmetric grids to produce a typeface that is full of character and fun. Mischievous…
Working from his Clerkenwell studio, Vic Lee’s type-lead monochrome artwork is inspired by old cigarette packets, money and signage amongst a variety of other forms of vintage packaging. With a contemporary twist on these classic motivations, Vic Lee’s tactile art prints and murals has lead him to work with clients…
You don’t have to a synaesthete to be able to taste type. According to Sarah Hyndman, the writer of ‘The Type Taster book’, every font can create trust, mistrust, give you confidence, and even has the power to alter the taste of your food. Published as part of an ongoing…
For those of you who are seeking employment, you might want to stop googling for an ultimate guide to writing artful emails for a bit and read this useful tip for fine-tuning your job search skills from New North Press’s partner and typography fanatic ‘Beatrice Bless’. In reality, we might…
In an industry that’s over saturated with digitally designed, die cut vinyl stickers, The London Design Festival looks back at a time where sign writing meant pencils, precision and painting by hand. Like many skilled trades it has evolved to meet the demands of a time conscious digital society, however,…
Rebecca (Becki) Sinclair has always had a passion for lettering. Now a freelance hand-letterer and illustrator based in Melbourne, she is the founder of the quirky lettering Emporium The Good Type Co. With a love that grew from childhood, amusing herself with reel upon reel of that connected, lined printer…
Louisa Gagliardi is a Zurich-based illustrator / designer and I don’t even know how to start complimenting her INCREDIBLE portfolio. It’s Nice That were pretty on point in describing her work looking ‘like a Picasso painting updated for the digital age’ with Louisa’s imagery following surreal and conceptual themes as…
We love receiving packages in the post…even more so when they have travelled half way around the world from like-minded, passionate print lovers! Our package from Nicole Arnett Phillips was a beautiful collection of typographic journals, written by designers for designers. Typograph.Journal was last modified: August 10th, 2015 by Emma…
Production Type is operated by French type designer Jean-Baptiste Levée who is a board member and the country delegate for France at ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale) alongside teaching at Amiens school of Arts & Design and at the University of Corte and fulfilling the role as columnist and editor for…
A full discussion of typographic design might be beyond the ambit of one magazine, but not with ‘The Recorder’. Now in its second edition, The Recorder has continued to thrive and taken on a new editorial structure to entice an audience into the contemporary visual journey through the work of…
If you love typography and all things letterpress check out our Department Store Vendors Typoretum. In a response to the revival of letterpress printing, Typoretum was established in 2008. Founded by Justin Knopp and his wife Cecilia, this British creative letterpress printing and design studio, utilise traditional craft skills to create…
Wood, they say, is the new modernism. Amsterdam-based (Typo)graphic design studio NovoTypo have teamed up with LenoirSchuring and Grafisch Werkcentrum Amsterdam to present ‘Typewood’ – their new collaborative experiment with colourful and multi-layered wood type. The type was produced using hypermodern CNC milling machines and printed on antique letterpress proof…