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.

Molly Woodward from NYC is making this awesome project called Vernacular Typography

and has set the project up on Kickstarter. If you want to help her out and get som cool shit

Pledge this project on Kickstarter (http://kck.st/xIf4Uo).

About Vernacular Typography:

Vernacular Typography is a digital archive and community-based initiative dedicated to the documentation, preservation, and promotion of vanishing examples of lettering in the everyday environment. It seeks to explore, protect, and support the typographic environment in cities around the world that retain their rich traditions of vernacular signage. (http://kck.st/xIf4Uo).

For more info visit:
Vernacular Typography
Vernacular Typography blog

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….

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:

Loving these two pieces from Dolk.

Flickr fun via.

I was not enjoying a bus ride this morning when I suddenly stumbled upon The LOГO Flickr group. A sweet group filled with type. Go check it out.

(via @YouWorkForThem)

Played with chalk with my daughter and her friends yesterday. They wrote their names. I wrote:

Heydays shared their found of  this great type site on Twitter the other day. I´m glad they did. Now we can share it with you guys!

Go have a look see!

Beautifull movie. We posted a part of this project a while ago. But this movie puts it all in perspective. Love it.

The Freedom Charter from rowan pybus & faith47 on Vimeo.

(via Wooster)

Found this sweet type experiment on Youtube.

From the makers:

“The results of an extensive exploration with shadows, the One Day Poem Pavilion demonstrates the poetic, transitory, site-sensitive and time-based nature of light and shadow.
Using a complex array of perforations, the pavilion’s surface allows light to pass through creating shifting patterns, which–during specific times of the year–transform into the legible text of a poem. The specific arrangements of the perforations reveal different shadow-poems according to the solar calendar: a theme of new-life during the summer solstice, a reflection on the passing of time at the period of the winter solstice. The time-based nature of the poem–and the visitor’s time-based encounters with it–allow viewers to have different experiences either seeing a stanza of the poem or getting the whole poem. All of these possible experiences are equally valuable and have meanings unique to the individual. This technique has the potential for producing particular effects and meanings within an architectural environment. Without the use of a source of power other than the sun, this project uses light and shadow to push the boundaries of communication and experiential delight.”

Found this sweet thing on Design You Trust. ”Vai com Deus” is a Typographic instalation on “Ermida Nossa Senhora da Conceição” façade, a chapel which is now an art gallery. Created by R2 Design.

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).

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.

Stubled upon this letter mystery on Booooooooom today. If anyone of our readers is a up and comming Hercule Poirot, this is your chance. Solve this one and get eternal high fives from Shannon McCubbin (the artist) and us here at HelloTypo™.

Funny idea from fffffound and about.

A graffiti writer in Trondheim apparently hates typography for some reason.

Faith47 have made a sweet mural in Johannesburg. I like it. Big and bold.

(via Wooster )

A new year. A new blog post. A bunch of fun & found stuff. Ståles famous “Stumbled upon on a Saturday”.

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I´ve been out walking with my crappy camera again. The result:

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Amazing type in the streets. All about this project here.

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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)

Nice idea. Tape on fence. (via: fffffffffffffffff)