The changing faces of Bowie (2013) by Blam and contributors.

A limited release print has been created exclusively for the V&A and will only be available during the David Bowie is exhibition.

Screen-printed matt white onto rainbow holographic, 240gsm Mirri paper.

To create The Changing Faces of Bowie, designer Blam approached over 100 artists and designers and invited them to produce the word ‘Bowie’ in a favourite or bespoke typeface of their choice or creation. The response to the project was overwhelming, a demonstration of the widespread love, respect and admiration that exists for Bowie. Blam has combined 101 Bowies – a dazzling array of typographic styles, logos and symbols representing the constantly changing and ever evolving style of the artist David Bowie. Including contributions from Build, The Chase, Spin, Nom de Strip, Studio NMO, Stockholm Design Lab, Monocle, v23, Paul Belford, Design Project, Corey Holms, Brett Wickens, Johann Zambyski, Pentagram, Crispin Finn, Wallzo, Blam, Anthony Burrill, Wallpaper, Martyn Atkins, The Designers Republic, Trevor Jackson and Jonathan Barnbrook.

The print is available to purchase here

Thanks to Mark Blamire for the images | info

More info |  Blanka |  Print-Process

Grilli Type / GT Pressura / GT Walsheim / GT Haptik

Swiss type foundry Grilli Type keep on producing beautiful typefaces — check them out

http://www.grillitype.com/

Grilli Type Information

About Grilli Type:
Grilli Type is an independent Swiss type foundry. We offer original retail and bespoke typefaces–high quality products with a contemporary aesthetic in the Swiss tradition. This tradition is reflected in the visual but also the technical standard of our fonts and our service. Together with our designers and collaborators we aim to create useful, high quality typefaces that stand the test of time.

About the founders:
Noël Leu is a graphic designer living in Zürich, Switzerland. He likes typography and Arnold Schwarzenegger, whom he hopes to see as the next American president, or as master of the universe.
Thierry Blancpain is a geography buff and a Zürich-based designer. He likes curves and cats. At night he works hard to take over the world.

About GT Pressura
Inspired by type stamped on shipping boxes, GT Pressura uses the visual effect of ink spreading under pressure as a stylistic device. The condensed sans serif alludes to a scientific background but with its rounded corners shows a soft and friendly side in larger sizes.

About GT Walsheim
Inspired by the lettering of Swiss poster designer legend Otto Baumberger from the 1930s, GT Walsheim is a friendly but precise typeface. Unlike other geometric sans-serifs, it sports warm curves and wears a broad smile. This allows for use in both large and small sizes.

About GT Haptik
GT Haptik is a Grotesque typeface with a very special characteristic: Its uppercase letters and numbers are optimized to be read blindfolded and by touching them. Because of that its glyphs are monoline and geometrical. Optical criteria become secondary. This gives the typeface a weird but also very charmful touch that plays well not only in display sizes, but also for short text use.

Credits

GT Haptik:
– Exhibition Kunstszene ZürichDesign by Buero146, www.buero146.chPhotos by Sandro Fiechter
– Alla HornDesign by Marcus Hollands, www.marcushollands.comPhotos by Cydney Holm

GT Pressura:
– Treibhaus PosterDesign by “Ilg, Trüb”, www.ilgtrueb.ch
– SergeyMonograph on the occasion of the exhibition Sergey Bratkov, Glory Days, Fotomuseum Winterthur, 7 June – 24 August 2008Design by Moiré, www.moire.ch
– Keith TysonFor Parasol unit,Design by Moiré, www.moire.ch
– Die Totale AufklärungCatalogue for the exhibition Total Enlightenment. Moscow Conceptual Art 1960–1990Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 21 June–14 September 2008 andFundacion Juan March Madrid, 10 October 2008 – 11 January 2009Design by Moiré, www.moire.ch
– OpenData.ch LogoDesign by Thierry Blancpain, www.thierryblancpain.com

GT Walsheim:
– GMAADesign by GVA Studio, www.gvastudio.com
– TOKOAustralian Publishers Association Best Book AwardsDesign by TOKO, www.toko.nu
– DieselDesign by SMFB, www.smfb.com
– InfotagDesign by Feixen, www.feixen.ch
– Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction B-MoviesAwarded with the Most Beautiful Swiss Books award 2011Design by Noël Leu, www.noelleu.com

The Photographers Gallery Identity | North

The new identity for The Photographers’ Gallery is constructed around the idea of framing. In designing the identity we knew we had to find a graphic device that could offer flexibility whilst holding the overall look of the gallery and and it’s communication together. We were inspired by the way sections of the new architectural scheme frame the building, the role of artists framing images and in turn The Photographers’ Gallery reframing the work.

The strength of the graphic meant we needed an equally strong choice of typeface. We settled upon Akzidenz Grotesk Extra Bold Condensed, set in all caps. It’s a well crafted classic typeface and lends itself perfectly to being the new headline font for The Photographers’ Gallery.

North design

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More Information

http://www.northdesign.co.uk/

http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/

Thanks to North design for the Photographs / information

Modernline is an original san-serif typeface, designed in a self directed final project at University. The images show the design process from start to finish, the aim throughout was to keep it simple and uncomplicated, with pure letter forms.

Modernline has been applied to five weights along with an Oblique version.

If interested please get in touch with Joseph Walsh

Euclid BP | Emmanuel Rey | swisstypefaces.com

It is not easy to bring a new design into the well-known field of Futura.
I would not like people to consider Euclid BP as a revival.

Since it’s first use, at this time exclusive, in 2009 for the identity of a contemporary art festival in Switzerland (Les Urbaines), the aesthetic produced by Euclid BP was quickly adopted by young designers.

I have taken a radical approach to basic geometry to design a typeface with a strong impact and self-identity, which was actually the opposite of Renner’s aim for his Futura. He wanted to avoid decorative and non-essential elements: I want to show some wildness. It has to show attitude and to be immediately recognizable, to look as a 21st century font and not as another wise revival of an early 20th century geometric font.

I consider myself much more of a contemporary designer, than a nostalgic one, and think that new aesthetics of fonts are needed in order to give graphic designers the necessary and essential tools they need to build an image that fits our time.

Emmanuel Rey

www.swisstypefaces.com

The fantastic new ‘Editions of 100′ screenprint by Daniel Freytag | Berg pays homage to the ‘Letraset’ Dry transfer lettering sheet.

The A2 Print has been screened in black and white onto Kaskad 225gsm Puffin Blue matt fine art paper, to mimic the original Letraset pale blue backing trace paper (see original’s above)

More info / purchase here

Seeing the print reminded me that I managed to salvage a massive stack of Letraset from a design studio clear out many years ago – not sure what I planned to do with them but it just looked too good to bin? Thought I’d get them out and take a few photos / to share and maybe do a flickr set later? – strictly for my fellow type geeks — enjoy!!.

Typonine | Digital Type Foundry

Typonine is a digital type foundry and graphic design studio based in Croatia and The Netherlands. It is run by graphic and type designer Nikola Djurek who founded Typonine in 2005. Born in Croatia, Nikola studied in Croatia, Italy and in The Netherlands in the postgraduate master course in Type and Media, Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, and he earned his PhD degree in the graphic and type design fields and now teaches at Art Academy – DVK, University of Split and University of  Zagreb. Additionally, Nikola is the Croatian country delegate for ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale), the organization of the international type community. He is also collaborating with Typotheque (Peter and Johanna Biľak) on the development of new typefaces.

http://www.typonine.com/

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Thank you to Maja Draganic / Typonine for the images and information

Collaboration between the studio and the legendary Wim Crouwel.
He kindly agreed to donate his time and produced a stunning number 5.
The posters are the usual limited edition of 200 and will be given to ‘Friends of Truth’ as a commemorative gift.

I’m waiting my copy. More pictures very soon.

Previous years successful posters by Milton Glaser, Supermundane, Si Scott and Darren Scott of Truth-Design are here.

More info on their site Truth-Design

Great Poster – though details are rather sparse. shirotokuro

Ligature, Loop & Stem offers limited edition products created to delight those who love typography and design. Use them for inspiration or reference as you work… or play.

A beautiful collection of posters by Chicago-based Tom Davie over at studiotwentysix2

via Matt Harvey

Getting Upper is a poster project and exhibition on display at the Pasadena Museum of California Art until September 4th, 2011

Twenty-six California-based graphic designers and artists were each asked to reinterpret one letter of the alphabet. The results are a diverse alphabet that speaks to the ways in which the originators were influenced by typography, language, graffiti, street art images and the letters around them.

Each letter has been screen printed in an edition of 100 and is available to purchase at the museum and at gettingupper.com.

More info: http://gettingupper.com/

Have a look at these stunning book covers for “The Night Angel Trilogy” (written by Brent Weeks).

Designed by Herman Chaneco, they use simple visual illusions made by paper shadows. Absolutely beautiful. Described on Herman’s site, the shadows create ”images of assassins that change based on the light,” and “mimic the content of the books.”

See more of Herman’s work here.

Postersinamsterdam.com started as a personal inspirational archive for art director and designer Jarr Geerligs in October 2002.

It grew over the years and Jarr thought that the archive would be of better use when shared with others. One of the reasons being the temporary nature of the posters. They hang in the city for a week or two and then they are gone. Another being that probably other designers would be interested what kind of designs are hanging in the city of Amsterdam. So, Jarr started sharing them on Flickr since August 2006.

This year he designed and made a site around the collection: www.postersinamsterdam.com

The collection is a ‘goldmine’ for typographic inspiration, featuring some brilliant examples of Dutch Graphic Design – including amongst others work by Experimental Jetset and Studio Dumbar – definitely one to keep an eye on.

Lineto.com Type foundry have produced some beautifully considered Type specimens to promote their Kada, LL Replica, Akkurat and Simple typefaces.

Kada Specimen

The Kada Poster features a photographic story and comparative type specimen rolled into one. Designed by Joel Nordström. Photography by Karl dos Santos and Johan Fowelin and 3D rendering by Lars Ohlin

LL Replica Specimen

Edited and designed by Norm, 28 pages set in all seven weights of LL Replica and in eight different type sizes, the booklet is an impressive document of Norm’s skills as both type designers and typographers.

Akkurat Specimen

A package of exquisitely printed samples of all 7 Akkurat cuts. Designed by Laurenz Brunner – The Akkurat Specimen 1-7 package contains 4 booklets showcasing all seven cuts in various sizes and settings. They are punch-cut for easy storage in standard folders. Utilising an ingenious folding technique, each booklet unfolds into a poster sized 390 x 600 mm.

http://www.lineto.com/ The Goods

Ryan Dixon designed a Series of 3 posters to celebrate the versatility of the typographic bracket.

Freddie Mercury, Hulk Hogan & Tom Selleck are all illustrated using a single bracket from the Cooper Black typeface

Rosetta is an independent foundry, created by David Březina, José Scaglione and Veronika Burian, with a strong focus on multi-script typography. They have produced some beautiful multi-script (Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek and Latin) typefaces. Identifying the growing need in the global market for multi-script typefaces that are both technically and aesthetically of the highest standard. Rosetta is committed to promoting research and knowledge in that area and to support excellence in world script type design.

Check out their new A2 poster – a double-sided presentation of released and unreleased typefaces. The front is a three-colour offset print playing with the motto “The world writes in many scripts”. The back is a more conventional type specimen-poster printed in one colour. It is an A2 format (420 × 594 mm); 120g Munken Pure paper.The poster will be sent as a free incentive along with any font order until 30 September 2011.
http://www.rosettatype.com

I’m really rather liking the hand drawn typographic work of digital media student, Simon Alander.

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http://coffeemademedoit.com/

Each brand consists of a logotype set in SUBFont (a custom version of Avant Garde Gothic Bold, with over 12,000 kerning pairs, custom glyphs, and true geometric forms; everything worked from scratch) and an encapsulated icon designed to work in really small sizes and almost any application.

Universal Branding System

2011 Designed by Dario Dević & Hrvoje Živčić
Size B1 980mm x 680mm
Poster in silkscreen print & JPG file
Price 49€ shipping and handling +15€

http://www.tipoplakat.com/view_all/nine-looks

These posters show typesetting guides for the typeface, Transport, first used in 1958 for UK road signage.

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Further info with informative background comments by Nick Job

Transport Medium based on work by Jock Kinnear

Interview with Margaret Calvert by Phil Baines

Biographies

A Grotesk Love Affair on Behance:
http://www.behance.net/gallery/A-Grotesk-Love-Affair/1339317

Ryan Atkinson Design Vote website:
http://vote.ryanatkinson.info/

Iconic Dutch designer, Wim Crouwel, is celebrated in his first UK retrospective exhibition, A Graphic Odyssey, showing at London’s Design Museum until the 3rd of July 2011. The exhibition spans 60 years, covering his controversial computer-age typography, his work for Total Design studio and other print, poster and typographic design from his monumental career.

A Graphic Odyssey exhibition
Wim Crouwel online archive

Images taken from Flyer Goodness and I am in London.

http://msced.mariusroosendaal.com