Artist / Designer Levi Bunyan (Aekido) has been experimenting with Lego and letterpress.

‘During experimenting with different forms of printing, initially letterpress and wood block, I began to experiment by introducing new elements into my printing process, and the Lego letterpress was born.’

Córdova — Canillas is an agency specialising in Art Direction and Graphic Design based in Barcelona, Spain. Founding partners, Diego Córdova and Martí Canillas have forged a partnership whilst working at Folch Studio between 2010 and 2012.

Working in art-direction, photography, graphic and communication design, the studio places emphasis on collaborative projects for commercial and institutional clients in contemporary culture.

Les Habilitats by Andrea Gomez is a 3 part publication expressing the abilities beyond human power.

This specimen book features Apt a typeface that is made up of 9 regular weights in which the smaller weights are systematically contained within the larger weights. There are also 9 oblique weights that follow the same properties as the regular nine. The final weight of the typeface is a chromatic that contains all the weights of Apt in one, this can be expanded to make a wide range of chromatic letters.
A key use for this typeface is to illustrate emphasis or importance in written language.
This book was created to exhibit its versatility.

Unlike other typefaces the weights of Apt are not constrained with Bold, Extra Bold, Condensed etc. It features weights One to Nine in which One has the thinnest strokes with the largest counters and Nine has the thickest strokes with the smallest counters. This came from the process of its creation starting with a mono line regular weight being Six, then expanding and decreasing the thickness to create the other weights

The lowercase needed to have a higher X height than most typefaces so as not to diminish the counters on the bolder weights, to conform with the same properties as the Uppercase of Apt and to keep the starting weight of six mono line to allow it to be systematically decreased and expanded to create the other nine weights.

As each letter decrease in weight the Cap height, X-height and Baseline follow accordingly. This assures that every corresponding letter of each weight is contained within the larger weights and all the letters of each weight follow
the same axis.

APT by Mark Jones

An experimental typographic project by Riccardo Sabatini, which is a typeface inspired by old mechanics technical drawings, the steampunk visual world, and modern machinery, mixed and merged all together to form letters completely made by these elements, creating a mechanical look like typeface.
All based on the letter shapes of the Din Alternate Black font, and the elements have their origin in his old work, THE MATRIX STEAM.

MEKKANIKA on the Behance Network
Riccardo Sabatini (Design & Co.) on Facebook

He adds that these are not images about the beauty of weaponry, “but a commentary on its uses, results, sale, and distribution. The use of arms and armor throughout covers a wide but random chronology of man killing man. Random, because it made no sense adhering to any kind of order when it comes to something so senseless.”

The letters molded from weaponry is a vivid connection between the horrors of war and our daily vernacular. “Reporting, describing, and discussing conflict related death is a casual part of our routine,” he says, “even if we are physically so distant from it.” Koen adds, when many years ago, he asked his grandfather Barouch Sevi, a World War II veteran, about war, “I expected a movie like description of guts and glory. He only said it was filthy and spoke no more about it. Maybe this explains the fact that these letters are not shiny tributes to military technology, but a fusion of rusted metal and broken bones.”

In June 2011 “Warphabet” was showcased in the Irene Gellery, Cyprus (an exhibition organized by the Department of Design & Multimedia, University of Nicosia) and will be exhibited in the Coningsby Gallery in London this September, Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas Gallery/HAU, Athens, Greece in November and Kalos&Klio Showroom, in Thessaloniki, Greece, May 2012. The image below bottom is called “War Heads,” for obvious reasons.

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I stumbled across a print of Tim Fishlock’s Typeseat poster in a friend’s home interiors shop. When I enquired about the price, I was firmly told it might be for sale, but only if the price was very right (she also pointed out her equally spectacular shoes, the design of which happened to be based on the Eames chair / letter X on the poster). Though disappointed, I can’t say I’m too surprised at her unusually uncommercial attitude, as Tim’s work is rather splendid. As it seems it’ll be a little longer before I’ll have a Fishlock original on my wall, I thought the next best thing might be to share Tim’s alphabet posters with the Typetoken readers.

Origami Alphabet Relief (top) is a 3 dimensional alphabet constructed by hand using paper and then photographed. Each of the litho prints is hand embossed, numbered and signed by the artist. Limited edition run of 300.

Shapeset (second from top) makes up the letters of the alphabet using basic primitive shapes, combined and layered in a variety of colours. It’s glicee printed on archival stock, hand embossed, numbered and signed by the artist. Limited edition run of 75.

A to Z (second from bottom) takes sections of Harry Beck’s classic London Underground map and presents them as the letters of the alphabet – an altogether different kind of A to Z map.

While typophiles dream of typography in their sleep, we took out our bedsheets and made types with them and were pleasantly surprised by the brush-like strokes that they produced.

Bravo Company — www.bravo-company.info

In Type the Sky, Berlin-based designer, Lisa Reinermann, presents the alphabet as formed by the outlines of tall buildings when viewed from below.

After spotting the letter Q while looking up at the sky in a Barcelona courtyard, weeks of dedicated sky gazing ensued before she managed to complete the alphabet, though she concedes that a little Photoshop work helped here and there with some of the more difficult letters.

The project was completed while studying at the University Duisburg-Essen and is presented in a slipcase containing a folded poster.

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Original article on slanted.de
Lisa Reinermann’s website