I recently held a typography workshop for some first year illustration students. The students were given small lectures on everything from David Carsons to scrawling trends and everything inbetween and were asked to respond to each talk. Even though these students are fresh to the game some interesting ideas and soultions came up. Maybe we have some aspiring members among these?
Dyrisk (animal) by Egil Woll
Non-Format have released a new font available for purchase! Super cool. The fonts name is OTTO. Nice. If anyone wants to buy me a present, buy me this font. Thanks. Read more and/or buy the font here…
Earlier this week Budstikka dropped the news (a bit to early, the writers was not quite done with it) about the world´s second largest piece ever. But Budstikka haven´t got all the inside info that one of Norways best and oldest rap groups, Gatas Parlament, got. Gatas Parlament loves graffiti. So they have posted a good long blog post about the pice on their site. I´ve stolen (with permission) some of the photos the rappers have taken. anyhow, back to the piece. The outline is made with over 250 liters of black paint. I love the work, an specially the ” can you see us from outer space?” sentence. :)
This photo is taken from a helicopter. ©Budstikka…
Photo ©Gatas Parlament.. .check out Aslak (the rapper) in the middle of the “R” in crew…
The worlds largest piece was made in LA last year (photo under). It was painted over this spring, so right now the FOS piece is the biggest in the world. (!)
I like type. I like graffiti. This is spot on for me. Nice work!
(What do you think?)
(Sources: Twitter, Gatas Parlament, Underskog, Budstikka)
There are many ways of getting non-standard fonts on your web page. Typotheque offers easy to use @font-face rule in CSS to implement your satisfactory type. They also offers a web licence to a fraction of the price. Read more here.
Found it on Etsy :-D. According to OrangeBeautiful last year’s calendars sold out in just under 8 weeks.
When it comes to art and design history Taschen have a tendency to release the most fun books. On one of my recent travels I stumbled upon Type. A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles, 1628 – 1900. A very impressive book both in size and quality. You’ll find a lot of history about the evolution of the printing process and advertising business, as well as loads of examples of type specimen, ornaments and ads. A must for the type obsessed! Have a look through the book here (examples starts around p100). An exiting extra to this book is that you get access to over a thousand high-resolution specimen scans available for download.
Around February 1 volume two is released, which will be about type in the 20th century.
Back in the good old days I had a t-shirt brand named :pøbel (:pøbel means bully, hooligan, rascal etc). And just now, when I was researching type on the intergalactic internet, I stumbled upon this book; Body Type.
The book made me remember that I actually got people to tattoo my brand name and/or logo… Super fun. I thought I should share it with you, so her goes:
Three people got a :pøbel-tattoo before I stopped paying for the tattoos… This is over three years ago, but still I get people comming up to me at parties and such asking me for a tattoo…
BTW: I don´t buy people tattoos anymore…
For those of you who have an iphone. This is my favorite game at the time. :-)
The Daily Drop Cap is an ongoing project by Jessica Hische. Looking forward to seeing more beautyful lettering. Stumbled upon Daliy Drop Cap at AceJet 170.
Got friday news from Luth&Co with the new Unit Slab, a modern humasnistic slab made by Kris Sowersby, Christian Schwartz and Erik Spiekerman.
Quoted http://klim.co.nz: “Erik Spiekermann considers FF Unit (designed with Christian Schwartz) to be FF Meta’s “grown-up sister”. Comparing the two san-serifs one finds that Meta is warmer, more organic and slightly quirkier, whereas Unit is Teutonic, technical and serious. Despite these differences, they both clearly come from a similar place, sharing the same DNA.
During the development of Meta Serif, we identified the organic quirks of the original Meta and translated the relevant parts to serif forms by redrawing everything from scratch. Unit Slab was a much different design process. Unit possessed a solid skeleton that easily accepted slabs, making the first drafts fairly straight-forward to complete. However, it quickly became apparent that we couldn’t simply graft slabs onto Unit—the sheer size of the family (7 weights with italics, smallcaps and exhaustive numeral sets) and the subtlety of the slab-serif form demanded an unerring eye for detail combined with stamina for the marathon design process. Fortunately, the resulting slab-serif is the perfect typographic companion in style, tone and aesthetic to the original Unit.”
You’ve surely seen his work before, but I had to post some of his work. It just makes me happy! Julien Valleé is a crazy skilled designer from Montreal, Canada. Truly hand crafted amazing designs.
For their bachelor thesis, Michael Flückiger and Nicolas Kunz made this exciting piece of work. They explored a system where a font is not displayed static, but dynamic and interactive. Very cool!
Test it for yourselves here.
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TTC (Trondheim Type Club) started out in 2008 by Aasmund Hegglid and Trond Aslak Øvrum. The idea was made in 2007 as something we missed in our town. A breeding place for type-fanatics.
We are now a group of people with relations to the design/advertising industry in Trondheim, Norway.
We all have passion and love for typography, and want to share our ideas, inspirations and knowledge with everyone. Kern or die!
