This year has seen the development of a new and very exciting app that allows you to create, manipulate and stylise your very own bespoke typeface. Prototypo is one of the first web apps allowing you to create such typefaces, bending them to your will, playing and experimenting with a…
Born in Uruguay, Fermin Guerrero is a passionate Grapher Designer and Type Designer. After completing his BA in Industrial Design at Escuela Universitaria Centro de Diseño – Uruguay, he moved to Switzerland to study Visual Communication at the Haute École d’Art et de Design (HEAD) – Geneva, where he received…
Radical new typefaces KRSNA and BRRR are now available as part of the Swiss Typefaces Lab Collection and join the popular SangBleu King, Euclid Stencil and Riviera. These new fonts are just as experimental as their lab predecessors and are fully functional. Their limitation to a single style allows Swiss…
Qingyu Wu (aka Q) is a graphic designer, krautrock lover, and cult film dedicated fan based in New York City. She holds a BFA in Graphic Design from Virginia Commonwealth University and an MFA in 2D Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has lectured at the Art Center College…
Mike Meyer is a sign painter from Mazeppa, a small rural town in Minnesota of approximately 700 habitants. His family has lived there through generations and that’s why he chose it as the home for his business. Mike became interested in painting when he was only a child. He used…
The latest edition of Eye is a type special, which includes features about Nadine Chahine, MuirMcNeil, NovoTypo, House Industries and Neue Kabe, among many other subjects like publishing, design software, education and photography – as well as a packed reviews section covering design and visual culture from around the world.…
Using an unmarked typeface and a few glyphs, Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail prints are typographic exercises in word play. ‘The ideas start very organically, usually as hastily scribbled musings in a notebook and often responses to current affairs. The words, phrases and statements that resonate will then manifest onto…
Yunus Ak is a graphic designer based between Istanbul, Turkey and Porto, Portugal. He graduated in graphic design at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 2013, and is currently pursuing his MA in Communication Design at ESAD Matasinhos. Yunus’ describes his work as being “driven by my own personal memory…
If you are looking for inspiring design and creative books, here’s an updated list of our favorite ones. In this article, you’ll be able to find a range of exciting publications with techniques ranging from paper folding to embossing or just motivational books for when you fail in different situations.…
Novo Typo is an independent typographic design studio and foundry, based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. One of their most recent projects discusses the question, why do type designers think in black and white? We’re surrounded by a world of colour, from our screens to our homes, colour plays a significant…
A unique collaboration between type foundry Velvetyne and French music band Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains has lead to the recent launch of a brand new font for the next album of the music band, called Solide Mirage, from which the typefaces got their names. Velvetyne Type Foundry Type Collaboration…
Here at People of Print we love to see creative companies emerging and flourishing. The company that we’ve had our eye on is newly formed Everpress — a beautifully designed online platform with functionality to match it’s aesthetic. To cut a long story short, Everpress allows creatives to sell professionally…
Established in 2009, Colophon have grown into an international, award-winning type foundry based in London and Los Angeles (US). By creating and distributing high quality, retail and custom typefaces for analog and digital media, each font is carefully considered regarding its technical and aesthetic value. Colophon Foundry was last modified:…
Kinetic is the name of a new geometric sans typeface family that introduces an organic appearance into this type genre and avoids strict design patterns. Having been released in January 2017, the design is partly inspired by the playful kinetic art of Alexander Calder and has been described as a…
An exciting collaboration between Designers & Books, The Center for Italian Modern Art in New York, the Mart, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, Italy, will result in a first time ever publish of an exact facsimile of the revered artist book by Fortunato Depero, Depero…
Having worked for the likes of GQ Style, The Sunday Times Style, Matches Fashion and other premium publications, Andrew Stainforth gives People Of Print an exclusive insight into his recent launch of Zine, a bi-annual publication that explores the realms of male fashion. Andrew Stainforth | Zine was last modified:…
Channeling the dynamic dimensions of Stefan Rohrer’s artwork, Hubert & Fischer have translated Rohrer’s iconic aesthetic via the medium of print, appropriating techniques of distortion to achieve a static interpretation of motion, an intriguing experimentation of composition and a work of art within itself. Entitled Parabolika, the term is used…
An unconventional and fashion forward approach to furniture photography unfolds within Lina Forsgren’s photography, art direction and business card design for Vera Panichewskaja’s Graduate Project; Salominka. Defined as a furniture collection that explores colour, form, composition and spatiality, Forsgren exquisitely captures each aspect of Salominka through the considered composition of…
A few months ago London had a chance to experience Kingsley Ifill’s work in his first solo exhibition named “Stutter”. Inspired by the way we consume images and shocked by the never ending replica, Ifill uses various printing techniques to create one-off prints. Meaningless and not so much images from…
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 eighth issues features mind-bending, psychedelic illustrator Rob Corradetti aka Killer Acid. Swarming with otherworldly characters, satanic monsters, aliens and other…