One of my favourite artists, ABOVE, just did this sweet, clean and to the point piece in Johannesburg (South Africa).

How did ABOVE get permission to do this wall piece. Well, here is what he did in his own words:

“I was able to get away with this diamond wall heist because I told the owners I would paint in big letters “Diamonds are a woman’s best friend” on the exterior of their building. The owners loved the idea and all quickly agreed.

The next day I had started painting but what the owners didn’t know is that I lied to them and was hijacking their wall. Like any premeditated robbery, situations are not what they seem and shit can flip from best friends to worst enemies in a few moments.

I assume the owners were too busy trading diamonds inside the mega centre they never took the time to come out and see I was painting a controversial word play about the diamond trade and how it’s fueled so much bloodshed in wars making it one of man’s worst enemies”

I like the way he flipped the coin on the owners. Clever. More (other) work from ABOVE:

(“GIVE A WALL ST. BANKER ENOUGH ROPE AND HE WILL HANG HIMSELF.”)

To see more stuff from ABOVE, just Go Above.

Our friend Remi just finished some amazing wall decorations for Carat. Remi states on his Behance account: “I was asked to help with the redecoration and decoration at the office of Carat, a large media-agency in Oslo. The project included decorating 5 walls, one large illustrative, two typography related, and two with a mix of typo and illustrations. The brief was rooted in the phrase “Redefining media”, and my take on it.” I think Remi solved this one super nicely. Popping typography with awesome details. Lucky Carat people. More pictures:

More pictures here.

Previously, we have shown some nice calligraffi work by Niels Shoe Meulman, Which is a combination of calligraphy and graffiti.

In Sweeping Beauty, Niels Shoe Meulman experiments with water and asphalt. The result is beautiful typography!

Super sweet 3D Sculptural piece by Luca Ionescu from Like Minded Studio. Check out their site, they do fun things with typography. Meanwhile see the details from the lovely piece above, here:

Very cool poster consept. Limited edition posters with hip hop lyrics printed on. Buy one. Franklin Gothic wood type all over your face.

We´re sendeing three of our club members (Trond, Aasmund and Ståle) to hold an typography workshop at the design conferense Visuelt. So if you love to play with type, understand norwegian and are in Oslo the third of May, be sure to join in. It will be fun!

Clever. ©Ruslan Khasanov

This wonderful blogpost about stiched lettering made me smile. Hope you´ll smile too. Enjoy.

(trust me, look through the whole thing. Nice pics.)

via Myfonts.

Analog vs. digital. <3

Super awesome idea from Jessica Williams. Check out the project here.

Stumbled upon this sweet project via Twitter. The project is made by Txaber, a designer based in Bilbao, Spain.  He has experimented with angles to produce Cubist typography with a strong wood finish. Read more about the project over at Design Taxi.

Helvetica o’clock.

Stumbled upon this amazing alphabet london-based design studio johnson banks on Facebook. A lovely 3D alphabet that shows the history of type. Hello!

To really get in to the depth of this project, please go to Designboom. Thank you. Come again.

Chalk this way.. © Dana Tanamachi.

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Nagging Doubt “The Pull” from Dana Tanamachi on Vimeo.

“Clean Me” was one of the first self-promotional prints by lettering artist Alison Carmichael. At first sight you might think this is a painting. But Carmichael, together with art director Mark Denton and Photographers Sean & Ben projected the artwork on to the back of the van so Carmichael could trace it in the dirt with his finger. #Wow ❚

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Amnesty – Fra ord til handling from Jazzmontør on Vimeo.

Beautiful Letters from Rosemary Wannan on Vimeo.

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n9ve is a multidisciplinary design studio based in Italy and focused on Design, Graphic and Animation.

I just love these experimental, animated type videos!

The Alphabet

A spelling-video, where each character is the initial letter of a font name.

The Alphabet 2

The Alphabet 2- a horn book video experiment – is a developmental spelling – video where each character visually represents the meaning of the word itself. Playing with different techniques and materials into little and big spaces, but always focusing on Helvetica font’s proportions. A collection of words in a delightful spelling-video.

www.n9ve.it ( via ONION:BLOGG )

Digital Alphabet in Stone – Dom Hans van der Laan/Autobahn 2011 from autobahn on Vimeo.

Nice video. Old meets new. via.

How do you get type to live? well, make some typography of something living. Even if its a bit grose, it works perfectly with worms.

Worm type is put together by Alexey Solodovnikov and Anastasia Korolkova.

Check out worm type. ( via Onionmag )

Fun.

It´s election time in Norway. One of the parties in Oslo made this cool stand.

More infor about the project here. (in norwegian)

Here´s the making of:

Great initiative! Go visit.

Fun and healthy. Via NYTimes.

Facsimile from NYTimes: The Spanish graphic designer Joan Pons Moll is creating a new typeface, but unlike most typographers, he’s doing so with his feet rather than a computer, and he’s slightly out of breath. Taking sneakers to pavement, Pons is planning to run the entire alphabet — both upper- and lower-case letters — in his inventive endeavor, “Running Alphabet.”

My friend and Tibe T colleague Trond and myself played with this new app yesterday (GIF Shop). It makes Gifs. We love gifs. We love type. We´re happy.

Go download it! :)

Typo art by Marthe Samuelsen at Vaffelføzz festival, Drammen, Norway. Nice typo, nice festival. Check out this site.

Stumbled upon (on Instagram) this lovely blog: Typeverything. It´s a blog I instantly had to bookmark. I suggest that you do the same. Support your local type dealer. Here are some random awesomnes from Typeverything:

A preview snippet ofthe tune Fast Lane, from Eminem and Royce 5’9 upcomming video. The song is from Bad Meets Evil. I like it when type is played with in music videos. Nice tune also.

Love Chris Piascik`s hand drawn typography. Check out his Muhammad Ali quotes series.

More fun hand drawn type @ chrispiascik.com

Loving this concept. Playing with letters. Hello! letterPLAYGROUND is a fun spot to enjoy custom type. If you go over there, make a letter and namedrop us (HelloTypo™) in your letter. That would make all 25 of us happy. Yay!

Oh Yeah Studio is a Oslo based design duo. They do amazing work. And according to Computer Arts they are the next big thing. Oh Yeah Studio doesn’t only make killer illustrations and lovely posters, they also treat type in a sweet way.

Summer party in Sunnfjord. More here.

Typetreatment for Hi-Fi klubben. More here.

Adidas typography. More here.

Keep your eyes on these two. Fun stuff! Follow them here.

Friday 20th of May – the workshop venue, normally a place where they do plastic surgery (!!) but this day was all about type. (check out the “E” in the building fasade)

I’m tired (from last nights Karlovackos) but ready for som typeface to face with the Croatians.

HOWtoWOW goes HelloTypo™.

We handed out letter cards to the workshop participants. The plan was to get the crowd to make the letter from ready mates they found round and about. But first we had to fill their heads and hearts with typographical joy and inspiration.

Aasmund with the last minute touch.

The CBS lunch room wall from the 1960′s by Herb Lubalin.

Aasmund talking about the statistics of typefaces used in a street in Melbourne. Not surprisingly, Helvetica is over represented…

But after a couple of hours talking about typography, it was time to make some.

The task: “Go out. Find ready mates. Build a letter. Take a photo” The crowd went out for fifteen minutes and came back with all sorts of sweet stuff. Flowers, dried up dog shit, bananas, car tires, medication, sugar, toys, rocks and loads more.

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Sliding typography.

Free buttons before lunch.

Lunch. Discussing typography, Flash, billboards, Busta Rhymes, beer prices and The Pope.

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Typface all over the place.

Checking out what we did before lunch.

The famous kerning discussion.

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Now we’re going to make a bitmap font of the ready made letters, free for download. It will be up in a couple of weeks.

We finished up the workshop with showing some type treatment done by the HelloTypo™ club members. The image over is of the font See Ark Sheep by Stian and his compadre.

I started the day out tired, and ended the day tired. But I was a happy camper. Oh’ the joy! We enjoyed to do the workshop, it was great fun.

We (Aasmund and Ståle) where invited to do a workshop at How to Wow in Zagreb the 20th of may (tomorrow). So today at 0530 AM we started our trip from Trondheim to Zagreb.

Waiting for the bus – the gif.

Tweeking the workshop whilst airborn.

Fun ad at Oslo Airport Gardemoen. Duplo ♥.

Flight two done, now to the last one. (the tee reads “Death to Helvetica”)

Stewart: “Do you want anything to drink?”

Ståle: “Do you have beer?”

Stewart (looks at Ståle like Ståle was born yesterday): “Sir, this is a German flight. What do you think?”

Ståle gets a beer…

Candy Script represented in Zagreb.

More beer label design.

The workshop is getting a finishing touch at the hotel.

Right now, this is one of 250 slides… This workshop is going to be a blast!

To Be Continued….

A 10 minute break can turn into something… different.

I stumbled upon this nice (nasty) picture while researching for the upcoming workshop we´re doing in Zagreb next week. I do not remember the source, probably Flickr-something.

Anna Garforth experiments with type. Wild at heart was, as she states, created in rural Catalunya, northern Spain. A 2m x 9m installation was rendered in masking tape, using a wire fence as a grid. She plays with type. She plays materials. She plays. Take a tour on her site. Baking, Papercraft, Flowers, Illustration, Typography. Check it out! Also check out her Tumblr. Pastry bonus:

My brother made me aware of this playful Flickr page of Fabian Gonzalez. The Font Wader cought my eye. The Font is strong with this one. (He also have a pile of fun illustrations. Click to be clever.)

Two of the Cmykkel girls did a design job for the Academy of Fine Arts in Trondheim. Here is the process of brush and color palette to the finished design.

This water color palette has not been used since the sixth grade (about 15 years ago) but it still works.

As you can see the letters is based on the typeface Umbra from 1935. Beautiful shadows of letters in water paint.

Now these letters were scanned and played whith inside the magical world of Photoshop.

The letters were even vectorized and tried out with different patterns.

But that was a dead end for this project. And now to the final design that won the rounds of the creative selection process…

…and if you are in Trondheim this saturday 7th of May 2011, please consider to visit the opening exhibition of this years graduate students at the Academy of Fine Arts. Visit the website for more information. If you want to se more of the prosess for this project, visit the cmykkel blog here.

Loving these two pieces from Dolk.

My good friend and Tibe T colleague Aasmund Reitan Hegglid and myself where kindly invited to Zagreb to hold a typography workshop at the 20th of may. Of course we rapidly replied with the CapsLock pressed in: YES! We are going to hold the workshop for the cream of the crop of advertising agencies in Croatia, at the event How to wow. We´re really looking forward to this event. We´re plotting the event as we speak, and it will be nine whole hours in typography heaven. If you are in Zagreb, be a clever type-junkie and come join us for a day of fun.

Fun via Swissmiss

Google images was nice enough to introduce me to these beautiful handmade posters from Belgium. They are posters for an exhibition made by the participating artists themselves. I’m guessing it’s some kind of adhesive paper / tape in glorious neon red and green they’ve used. Gotta love it.

This video made me a litle dizzy and I never saw Conan O’Brians final episode of The Tonight Show on NBC, but the typography is still very cool.

Conan O’Brien Kinetic Typography from Jacob Gilbreath on Vimeo.

I stumbled upon this extraordinary piece of landscape while i was fiddling around with Google Earth the other day. Wikipedia states that: “Sheikh Hamad owns Futaisi Island, this has been handed down from father to son. It covers an area of 50 square kilometres …” I think it’s more than probable that this is that exact island, just outside Abu Dhabi. According to the scale on Google maps, the letters are approximately 480 meters high and the whole word is about 1,7 kilometers long! That should make the text around 1 360 500 pt.

Sheik Hamad is a cool sheik. Maybe a tad bit crazy, but still cool.

Yes, my mother told me not to play with my food. But I did not listen..

This is letters made with rice, mung beans, sea salt and flaxseed. See more strange typography here.

Found these refreshing books on Boooooooooom and Today and Tomorrow and Flickr. The artist is Isaac Salazar. Fan-freaking-tastic! Click the links if you like, there are more of this folded sweetness.

School project by Kassett