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.

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:

Me and aussie Luke Stockdale went to university together at RMIT Mebourne. Stumbled upon his portfolio now six years later. He treasures the craft of vintage type and signage alongside with his design firm Whiskey Theatre Design Co. based in Nashville, Tennessee. Check out his work :-)

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.

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.

There must be something about Spain and great type-driven graphics. We´ve had visit here in Trondheim from fellow spanish designers Alex Trochut, Marta Cerdà Alimbau and Dvein. Hope we see these guys around as well.  Vasava is a multidisciplinary studio based in Barcelona doing Graphics, Interactive and Motion. Their clients range from Diesel, Adobe, Schweppes and Nike. Check them out!

Amnesty – Fra ord til handling from Jazzmontør on Vimeo.

Beautiful Letters from Rosemary Wannan on Vimeo.

Nice. Stumbled upon. Unknown source.

Great initiative! Go visit.

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 super sweet font family designed by Aurèle Sack was just released by Lineto. The family includes 18 cuts and 4 weights and is named LL BROWN. I love this typeface. I need this typeface. I´ll buy this typeface.  Now!

(Thanks to @Heydays and @Teipu for the heads up.)

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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Ø, W, ö, Ø, M

k, X, Q, M, o, d, I

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:

My sister is a photography student and her friend is a design student. Both at NKF in Trondheim. They decided to play with typography the other day. The result is this picture of my sister. I love it.

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.

(via @Sa_na_ai )

My friend Cecilie Ellefsen is one of my favourite illustrators out there (and her boyfriend is a killer on 3D). She works with the skilled crew at Commando Group, and has her personal site Happy Meat. On her own site, she reasontly added a sketchbook section. I´m loving it. Her Moleskine is filled to thr rim with sweet and lovely illutrations. And of course type treatment. Be a quick brown fox and jump over to her sketchbook and have good, long look. While your at it, check out the Commando Sketchbook as well. Peace.

Sweet little motion piece from the excellent studio Buck. Love the naive retro graphics and the nicely set typography. Dumb is good!

Flickr fun via.

Loving this video from Shoe for the Pink Ribbon Foundation. I´ll buy that car!

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)

Ren Reklame (cleen advertisement) did this sweet stunt earlier this year. I like.

Meny, a norwegian supermarket chain, surprised me today while I read the news paper. In the news paper Meny had a standard advertisement paper (product + price). But on the front page of their paper they had some fantastic carved type. The rest of the layout wea crap, but that type was a piece of heaven. (I don´t know who did it. Do you?) Enjoy:

Stumbled upon this amazing guy, from Sweden, named Thomas Broomé. I´ve never heard of him before, but damn he produces loads of lovely things. Not only typographical stuff, but sculptures and other sweet bites. His take on typography is right up my alley. Analog shit. No computers. Bookmarked for ever!

I made a logo for my contemporary art exhibition at Trondheim Art museum. It all goes down 22. of october. If you are in town, come join the party. More here (Norwegian).

Two (old, but) fun typographical pictures from Isabel Truniger.

See more of her projects on her site.

Love Jonny Wan`s experimental type!
Check out his illustrations and work her.

( via Onionmag )

Stumbled upon Atelier Martino&Jaña. Not only do they have lots of sweet work going on, they also have a clever site. Check them out.

Happycentro made this beautiful clay type illustration for New York Times Magazine.

See more pictures here.

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!

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.

Found this via Ffffffound & Grain Edit

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.

Be a clever typography lover and check out the whole thing here.

Build is a beautiful modular typeface Scottish designer and illustrator Steven Bonner made. It is for sale at YouWorkForThem. Perhaps it´s the way the shapes are mixed with this lovely colors, but I´m loving it. And I hope you do to.

Nice. Unknown artist. via The Greatest Hits.

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.

Robert going through the steps of the Adidas Teamgeist case. The crowd applauded every showreel he presented. Very cool.

Marta talking in living color.

Alex on how he made the font Neo Deco. Marta and Alex actually did they first ever talk together as a team at helloVARSKO! We recommend their talk to anyone, everywhere. People came up to us and said they was so inspired they had to run home to draw asap.

Both the swede and the spanish couple got a small present from us. A book by Norwegian photographer Rune Johansen, and a pair of jeans from local jeans brand Johnny Love.

After the talks, the movie and the barbecue, The Last Ninja played to an exited audience. Click here to see video.

Amazing Margaret Berger played with a full band. Super sweet. People danced till they spilled their beer on each other. Lovely.

If you missed out on our marvelous.

More pics and videos to come…

OFFF 2010 seem to have a really good focus on typography for their  opening titles and trailers. Here are some from this year, enjoy!

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)

The helloVARSKO! posters have landed. Ah, beautiful. What a line up! It´s designed by the magical CMNCTN. The backside is designed by the spanish wonder Alex Trochut for helloVARSKO! The poster is printed at Fagtrykk and the very cool people at Arctic Paper is responseble for the lovely paper.

Holy Cow! Interactive Art Director and Co-founder of North Kingdom, Robert Lindstöm, aka Designchapel, is coming to helloVARSKO!.

We understand that you are shocked *the sound of jaws hitting the ground*. If your jaw did not hit the floor, it´s probably because you haven´t heard about North Kingdom or Designchapel. Well, you are in for a treat. Robert and the North Kingdom guys are one of the most innovating dudes around. For the second time the last three years, they are on the 2010 Creative 50 list. It’s a list where Ad Age and Creativity celebrate the year’s most inspiring thinkers and innovators (other people on that list: Lady Gaga, Daniel Ek, Michael Lebowitz and Spike Jonze and a 45 others…

In 2004 North Kingdom created Vodafone Future which became the worlds most awarded website that year. They have won a pile of shiny awards at the Cannes Cyber Lions, a couple of D&AD awards, gold here, gold there. Gold everywhere. They work with clients like Vodafone, Adidas, Coke Zero, WWF, Toyota and so on…

So now, with the line up we have put together, you no longer have an excuse for not participating in our fabulous event.

While you wait, take a look at this:

helloVARSKO! will make you smarter, more creative and prettier. No Lie!

The exclusive line of speakers we have had in the four year history of VARSKO! looks like this: Bjørn Brochmann (NOR), Yokoland (NOR), Dizel&Sate (S), Chris Rubino (USA), Si Scott (UK), Ian Anderson (UK), Alex Trochut (ESP), Marta Cerdá Alimbau (ESP), Robert Lindström (S).

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”.

The five images above is made by Alex. Be a clever noodle and bookmark his Behance site also. (we presume you all ready have bookmarked his personal site)

This one is a collaboration between Alex and Marta.

The last images is made by Marta. Check out her profile on Behance also!

So now you can start saving up your paychecks. Come to Trondheim and Byscenen to enjoy a full day of VARSKO! heaven at helloVARSKO!

helloVARSKO! is a VARSKO! and HelloTypo™ initiative in collaboration with Kreativt Forum Trondheim, Grafill Trøndelag, Byscenen and BrukBar/Supa. You better get your party shoes polished, this is going to get rough.

On the 3rd of July VARSKO! will be hosting an event at Byscenen, Trondheim that will blow your mind. VARSKO! and HelloTypo™ merges to create a mix of graphic design and typography. We will collaborate with Grafill Trøndelag and Kreativt Forum Trondheim to make it extra awesome. Book the date in your calendar, tell your friends and stay tuned for news coming your way!

Siggi Eggertsson is speaking at Visuelt dagene in Oslo tomorrow. If you are in the area, be there or be *drawing a square in the air*  (like Uma in Pulp Fiction did). He also updatet his site a few weeks ago. Loads of typography and other beautifulness. Check check check it out. Below you can see a rejected magazine cover he made. (why they rejected this I don´t know. Stupid.)

One of my favorite Norwegian designers Robin Snasen Rengård has made loads of sweet stuff. And this Rumble in Rhodos cd is filled to the rim with sweetness. Playful but tight. Love it. I urge you to check out his site. ASAP.

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).

I first saw this lovely poster on Norwegian designer Tuva Thorsø private blog. I instantly fell in love with the poster. I had to Google a bit before I found a bigger picture and the source. The poster was made by graphic designer Nicole Lavelle From San Francisco. My hat goes of to her. Nice work indeed.