For those of you living in Trondheim, we’ve been assigned to design small poster prints with the date 25/09/2010. You will have to wait to know what it is about, but sign up on the website to be the first to know.
We have written about Jessica Hische and her super cool project; Daily Drop Cap some time ago here on HelloTypo™. Now she have made some sweet letterpress prints of selected letters. You can, and must, buy them over at her shop. BTW if you have been a HelloTypo™ follower a while, you´ve probably also seen these Hische designs before. Yes we love Jessica. Bookmark that girl A.S.A.P.
I stumbled over this sweet final project from newly graduated design student Patrycja Zywert. She says it best herself: This project is a typographic installation and a poster advertising the film about Norman Foster, titled‘How much does your building weigh, Mr. Foster?’. The idea is to express the aspects of Foster’s striking architecture by creating large geometric letters F, O, S, T, E and R. The installation also aims to become his architectural signature.
helloVARSKO! is history. The event was so smooth. People enjoyed the day from A to Z. VARSKO!, Kreativt Forum Trondheim and Grafill Trøndelag, helped us to unfold an amazing happening. Two great and inspiring talks from one of our favorite sweeds Robert Lindström from North Kingdom and Spanish designers Alex Trochut & Marta Cerdà.
Aasmund and Alex preparing the equipment. Soon the magic begins.
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Got this tip from Maria at Studio 3. Worth a check! Here is their description:
“Hyperactivitypography from A to Z is an activity book for typographers illustrated in a nostalgic vintage style to give it a sweet and childlike look. The book is packed with activities, ranging from silly to hard core nerdiness. It’s great to test your skills on and to learn new things while having fun! Who said typography had to be stiff and boring?”
Flip through the whole book – or order it – from www.hyperactivitypography.com!
Oh, yes. You better believe it. It is true. HelloTypo™ and friends delivers again. We have been so lucky that the Spanish wonder, mr Alex Trochut, have decided to pay us a visit. 3rd of july he and his talented girlfriend (and coworker) Marta Cerdà Alimbau are taking the podium and going to do a show&tell. We are so pleased that Alex and Marta is taking the trip up to the capitol of mustaches, Trondheim, to do a talk and drink Dahls with us. So in addition to the Typeface screening we now give you two sweet lecture holders. Lucky you!
Alex even made a teaser design for us.
Want to see more of the magic work of Alex and Marta click “read more”.
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As we´ve stated earlier, we are collaborating with the design festival VARSKO! to make the sweetest typographical event known to mankind come to life in Trondheim. The city of our heart. Now we can release the first name on our beautiful list. We´re proud to announce that we, on the 3rd of july, are screening the award winning documentary Typeface. We have blogged about the movie before, but now we give you the Norwegian premiere. Typeface, by Justine Nagan, is a a documentary on American typography and graphic design. Read more here.
Enjoy the trailer:
Calligraffiti is a combination of calligraphy and graffiti. It is also a sweet site filled with nice typography and images that will get both graffiti artist and calligraphic people to wet their pants. The man with the plan is Niels Shoe Meulman. He also just released the Calligraffiti book (buy it here) . I, for one, am putting that book on my wish list for christmas (Hi mom).
Jared Benson, founder of the typographic community Typophile (who just last week celebrated it´s 10 year anniversary) tweeted that Matthew Butterick, former Font Bureau type designer (Herald Gothic, Hermes FB, etc) launches Typography For Lawyers. Butterick now has his own law office, and as a former type designer he saw that “legal typography is often poor”. That is why he made Typography for lawyers. I love it! Hope to see more sites like that. Anybody out there who has spare time on their hands, feel free to do something with these ideas: “Typography for truck drivers” or “Typography for phd students” or perhaps “Typography for plumbers”.
Anyhow. The coolest thing with Typography for lawyers, is that it´s a bunch of good reading there for anyone that want their papers to look good, or just learn about typography. In other words, you don´t need to be a lawyer to learn from this site. So typography rookies and others, read through the site, and take notes. Bonus: If you are a twitter addict like me, follow Typography For Lawyers here, and Font Bureau here.
Everyone have heard about the earthquake that hit Haiti. A nice project that raise from this sad event is The Haiti Poster Project. I have browsed thru the site and there is some sweet bites among the poster load. One that cached my eye was this one by Alonzo Felix. Why? Because I like the simplicity of it, and of course the good vibe. This is no “pitty-me-poster”. I like.
This is a bit old, but came across Marin Van Uhm on the wide web, and this nice hand crafted face. So easy and still full of character.
Sweet. More from A Love Letter For You. We posted a piece from this project earlier. A Love Letter For You is a project by Stephen Powers. I love this project. A lot. Read more about the project.
A former student of mine Kjersti Barli aka Svingtrapp have been playing with the art of letterpress. Kjersti is currently studying visual communication at KhiO. On her blog she released some pictures of the process. I´m jealous, I also want to letterpress. So to ease my pain I´ve stolen some of the pics, and I´ll happily share them with you. I hope you forgive me Kjersti.
I´m not a crook.
Came across this collective whom creates lovely crafted typework. Quoted from their site: “The ill-studio is a French group of collaborators devoted to fine arts. Our goal is to bring ten individuals together, working in various artistic areas such as graphic design, photography, typography, illustration, video, motion design, etc.”
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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!
Some of our favourites for your pleasure
