OKNO is the creative side-hustle of UK-based designer Luke Matthews. One of his recent releases is a typographic Risograph print, Girls Just Wanna Have Pockets. The print is inspired by his participation in various protests over the past few years, either as a marshal or by designing posters, slogans, and…
Paris-based graphic designer and typographer Clément Le Tulle-Neyret describes his work as “content driven”, detail-oriented and “characterised by an exceptionally high typographic culture.” While there’s clearly a small element of lost in translation in the final phrase, if you’ve seen his work, you’ll see what he’s getting at. Le Tulle-Neyret…
To celebrate World Diversity Day, we’ve teamed up with Distillery to launch Diversity Type; a font that includes contributions from a total of 308 creatives from 54 countries, creating the the world’s most diverse typeface. Below, we chat with Fatima Abbas, who contributed the design for the letters ‘G’ and…
On Friday May 21st 2021, people across the globe celebrated World Diversity Day. We were proud to mark the occasion by launching the Diversity Type for download in collaboration with Distillery. The project is a unique opportunity to build awareness, by unifying communities and cultures, and celebrating the differences in…
Today, people across the globe will celebrate World Diversity Day. To mark the occasion, we have teamed up with Distillery to launch the Diversity Type for download. With contributions from all corners of the world, Diversity Type has brought together letters and numbers from the Latin alphabet inspired by hundreds…
Social enterprise All SHE Makes was launched with the aim of redressing the underrepresentation of women artists around the world. The platform, designed by Wei-Haas Creative, was created by Svitlana Martynjuk, a Michigan-based artist who was born and raised in Rivne, Ukraine . She says she created All SHE Makes…
Over the past year, letterpress printmaker and designer, Dafi Kuhne, has been working on a project called The Absurdity of the Moment; a series of 10 large (70x100cm) letterpress printed posters. The posters have all been produced from hand-cut linoleum and hot metal type, and printed in up to 10…
Post Typography is not, as you might expect, a type foundry; nor is it “post” lettering (it uses a lot of it, in fact, in work across print, digital and conceptual design)—it’s a creative studio that we’ve long admired. There’s a hell of a lot of thought behind what the…
Parisian studio and type foundry Violaine & Jérémy was founded by the eponymous Violaine Orsoni and Jérémy Schneider in 2012 when Schneider had just graduated, and Orsoni left behind a job as head of production in an advertising agency. Since then, the pair have developed a gorgeously distinctive look across…
We’re excited to partner with Distillery on the Diversity Type Project. This is a unique opportunity to bring our differences together to create a brand new typeface that celebrates diversity and inclusion. With contributions coming from all corners of the world, we’ll be bringing together letters and numbers from the Latin alphabet inspired…
UK-based Designer Luke Matthews, who works under the name OKNO, has always had a keen interest in Japanese typographic design and folklore; “how everything can be so steeped in tradition and values while also being obsessed with innovation and tech”. A lot of his designs and prints exhibit influences from…
Peter Roeleveld is a third year Graphic Design student at the University of Arts in Utrecht in the Netherlands. Although he has a background in graphic design, Peter says; “I’d rather call myself a young type designer that loves both digital and analogue workspaces”. Over the past two years he…
If you’re in need of inspiration, or just pottering about from tab to tab in need of some procrastination that’s way more enriching than, say Googling “when exactly do the pubs reopen” or Photoshopping your friend’s faces onto those of Princess Di (just as an example), you could do far…
Join the fight against typographic pollution with Dafi Kühne‘s 2021 Typographic Summer Program. The program is an intense 2 week course taking place in Switzerland for international graphic design students and professionals. The project was initiated in 2016 by Dafi as he “…felt the need for a short intense workshop…
A recent graduate of Austin Peay State University, Kelsey Faye is a practising graphic designer, printmaker, and photographer. Currently, Kelsey is working on a new functional wood block typeface that takes inspiration from street art. They are hoping to use the font for a series of zines which will also…
Type design company Swiss Typefaces, which is based in—you guessed it, Switzerland (Vevey to be exact)—has really amped up what we think of as a type specimen with its new book Euclid-Typeface Mystery No. 1. The book comes in the wake of the past few years’ gradual additions to the…
Across his poster design visual identity work, publication design, exhibition graphics and a raft of custom type faces; Thomas Huot-Marchand’s work is characterised by a sense of timeless class. His work always looks contemporary, but the craft and nuance—his marriage of rigour and impact—make the world feel both fresh, and…
Like so many illustrators and designers, it was music that shunted art as a hobby into art as a career for Tom Kariv. However, unlike so many, he’s since worked with the likes of Major Lazer, Chronixx, Walshy Fire, Lil Dicky, Stones Throw Records, Raw Tapes Records and Guns n…
This month POP are proud to present a selection of typographic print projects by some of the talented members of our community. From letterpress prints, to fundraising tees, and gig posters, our members have innovatively used typography to convey a variety of messages. David Mascha: Say Yes Vienna-based artist and…
Luke Matthews is the Head of Creative at a small design agency in the UK, producing typographic Risograph prints in his spare time. Educated with a BA (Hons) in Photography from UCA, throughout his studies Luke found himself more drawn towards design. Ever since, he has worked his way up…