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Typographic Revolt
January 23rd, 2012The folks at HypeForType approached graphic designer Ryan Atkinson to produce their first magazine, Typographic Revolt. The mag acts as a showcase for their typeface collection and is A2 sized with a twist. Instead of following the traditional convention, Ryan designed a quick read through A2 magazine which also doubles up as a set of 4 Exclusive Faces posters. Each page folds out to create a double sided poster perfect for your studio or home wall space. Typographic Revolt is printed as a limited litho run on 90gsm wood free paper, giving everything a premium newspaper feel which absorbs the inks to create a beautiful desaturated look and feel.
Typographic Revolt is available now through Amazon.
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Fruita Blanch
October 4th, 2011Beautiful packaging and identity design by Atipus for Fruita Blanch. Great color and typography give the identity a certain character.
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Tent London Directory
September 23rd, 2011A lovely directory designed by Marc&Anna for the London Design Festival’s Tent London show. The typeface used is F37 Bella by Rick Banks. I also love the use of the pink/salmon paper.
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RM Regular
August 29th, 2011RM Regular is a new sans-serif typeface by Mash Creative. The Opentype font includes a full character and glyph set, and supports 47 languages.
The first 100 people to buy the font also receive a limited edition poster printed on 200gsm GF Smith Accent Smooth Glacier White stock.
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Tom Carnase
June 22nd, 2011Tom Carnase has created some of the most iconic logotypes for Brooks Brothers, Saks Fifth Avenue and Calvin Klein, just to name a few. He also worked along side Herb Lubalin and helped him create the popular Avant Garde typeface. Some of his lettering work is displayed here, but I recommend that you do a Google search to see all of his great pieces.
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Bianca Chang
June 8th, 2011Stunning. This is a series of paper cutouts by Australian designer, Bianca Chang. The 3-dimensional letterforms are created with multiple sheets of 80gsm paper. These much be really amazing in person. The form must change depending on the angle of view.
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Exclusive: Process 4.5
May 18th, 2011I’m super excited about this exclusive AisleOne feature. The fine folks at Process have released a special edition publication titled: Process 4.5.
Process 4.5 is the first in a series of special edition Process publications. Printed in only black on lightweight 70gsm Bond, Process 4.5 purposely contrasts the usual high production qualities of the quarterly journal, as well acting as a platform to experiment with different formats and production techniques. The publication’s content is a reflection and retrospective of the first four editions of Process Journal.
Consisting of three major parts, the first a comprehensive essay written by typographer and design-lecturer Brad Haylock. The second a typographic analysis of each of the typefaces featured in editions one to four, including type samples and specimens. And finally, a selection of contributors from editions one to four were asked a simple question: What is your process?. Including responses from Brett Phillips (3 Deep Design), Michael C. Place (Build), Mason Wells (Bibliothèque), Tom Crabtree (Manual),Tony Brook (Spin) and more..
View hi-res images of the publication.
You can grab a copy on the Process store.
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Codex: The Journal of Typography
May 4th, 2011Codex is a promising new quarterly magazine on typography by John Boardley of I Love Typography. It’s going to feature articles, book and type reviews, interviews, tips, type history, new and notable faces, essays and more. I’m definitely looking forward to this.
The magazine consists of 164 full-color pages, is approximately A4 (about 8″ x 11″) and makes use of Lyon Text & Display, Knockout, & Akkurat Mono.
Issue #1 will include Christian Schwartz and Paul Barnes, Paul Shaw, Stephen Coles, Erik Spiekermann, Dr Paul Dijstelberge, Craig Mod, Luca Barcellona, and more. You can pre-order the first issue on the website.
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Vintage Oil Cans
April 28th, 2011I’m really digging these vintage oil can designs by Antrepo to showcase their typeface, Public Gothic. It makes you wonder what the hell happened to our society that made us go from nice packaging design like this, to this.
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GestalterIn Gallery
February 17th, 2011Category: Design, Design Legends, Grid Systems, International Typographic Style, Typography
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Just when you’ve thought you’ve seen it all, you stumble across something like this Swiss site containing a MASSIVE amount of work from legendary designers like Brockmann, Ruder, Bill, Hofmann, Stankowski, Rüegg, Lohse, Huber, Tschichold and more. This is the motherload folks.
It just goes to show how prolific these designers were, especially Brockmann. I thought I’ve seen most of his work, but this site contains many designs that I’ve never seen, like the one pictured here. It’s like rediscovering him all over again. Not sure how he was able to get all the work completed. I can’t imagine ever producing this amount of work in my lifetime. Amazing.
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Really Useful Posters
January 28th, 2011Category: Design, Grid Systems, International Typographic Style, Typography
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The uber-talented Mark Bloom of Mash Creative just wrote in about these gorgeous ‘Really Useful’ posters they’ve created, extending the philosophy and thinking behind their State of the Obvious brand. The series consists of four themed posters: Greenwhich Mean Time, Emoticons, Print Sizes and Metric Conversion information and are available in A0, A1 and A2 sizes exclusively from Print Process.
Some people will find these designs to be boring, but I personally find them to be visually stimulating. The obvious grid, simple but rich color palette and staggered typography create interesting designs that are reminiscent of the classic International Typographic Style from the 50s and 60s. This is the kind of stuff that gets my creative juices flowing.
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2011 Calendar Wallpapers
January 12th, 2011**Update** If you’ve downloaded the wallpapers, please download them again. I fixed an issue with the numbers being misaligned.
A lot of you have been asking about this year’s wallpaper, and I finally got around to getting it done. This year the full calendar is broken up into 3 wallpapers. Each one has 4 months and the colors get darker as the year progresses. As expected, I went with a simple design with more of a focus on the months and I’ve continued the multi-language theme. It comes in only one size: 1920x1200. I hope you enjoy it.
Download the zip file with all three wallpapers.