Blogs Posted Under Typography

It has already been a crazy and busy New Year, so I am just now getting down to getting a new entry posted up here. Today’s showcasing is something rather unique in my book.  How do you envision a new, creative way of inviting people to your upcoming wedding.  Usually wedding invites are elegant forms of paper, perhaps embossings, and are fairly minimalistic in their design approach.  You say the date, the time, the location and the RSVP info. What if you wanted to give.. || Continue Reading →

It can be said that for most company’s internal “art department”, there is generally the mediocre or average brochure, flier, or ads being produced.  They are effective, get the job done, and usually follow some corporate style guidelines. Rarely is there an opportunity to get really creative or is that spark of brilliance in creativity outputted by in-house design staff working for academic, medical, or legal industries, which are usually very conservative.. || Continue Reading →

If you are a parent like I am, you know the extent of a parent’s love.  If you are a parent of a young teenager, which I am, than you know of the contrasting, opposing, confrontational, and pressure-cooker moments of parenting that require you to love with a smile, yet pull out your hair when they aren’t looking. It is hard work. But there is a silent creed that all good parents know, yet we rarely convey to your child. Which brings me to today’s entry.  Always.. || Continue Reading →

I love typography.  That is one of the reasons why I found myself in this industry.  Letterforms are art in and of themselves.  The way they can arrange themselves to form words, to form shapes and compositions within a layout. Done right, they can be used to form complete illustrations.  Which is what makes them such a great visual medium to illustrate with.  Because one can use words as the paint (literally), you can develop another level of concept into the design.  The.. || Continue Reading →

Fewer clients are printing materials.  Everything is online, web-based, and ready for our mobile devices.  If things are getting printed, we have a sea of quick-print, digital press online vendors to upload our PDFs and have the printing shipped to us within 48 hours. With the digital age of online, web-based graphics, the one sacrifice is a detour from the lost art of exquisite printing.  I am talking about jaw-dropping and expensive techniques like rich, textural papers.. || Continue Reading →

50 Designers 50 Mottos Fifty and Fifty is a curated project which attempts to construct a handsome new way of looking at our country. Fifty designers, one per state, will illustrate their state motto, creating something steeped in history but completely modern and unique: a kind of designer’s atlas. Fifty and Fifty was created by Dan Cassaro, a designer and animator living and working in Brooklyn, New York. More of his work can be seen at YoungJerks.com Here are some samples: Alabama Tennessee Minnesota I.. || Continue Reading →

I love to see how all typographical solutions come together.  I came across this contest submission by Boston graphic designer Scott Nicolson and loved it’s simplicity. Sure, it would have been easy to fill the whole page, have the different statements be in different fonts, sizes, and angles, but I think it would have ended up a mess. Instead, Scott leads the viewer down a logic path of reading and I love the connectivity of the pieces.  The muted hues are gorgeous and.. || Continue Reading →

I stumbled upon a digital artist by the name of Dencii Manayak from Parañaque, Philippines and immediately fell in love with his black portrait series that were all created using just typographical figures: letters, punctuation, most of them the letters from the script typeface Bickham Script, and in just various shades of gray that make for striking artwork against their bold black canvases.  Pairing these portraits is a word that really sums up what that person’s life.. || Continue Reading →

I stumbled across this website that basically helps place medical personal into remote areas like Nepal, Namibia, and Tanzania. For such a humanitarian organization, Gap Medics method they chose to present the information in the form of a website is fresh, inventive, and unique. With the use of washed out colors, and sort of vintage duo-tone look, and obscure typography throughout, the site has a very innovative approach to its design. http://www.gapmedics.co.uk/

Some people will go to great lengths to pursue the art of typography and see the alphabet in the world around them. Rhett Dashwood is one of those individuals. Rhett recently went to great lengths, to the tune of MONTHS, searching mile by mile on Google Maps throughout Victoria, Australia in search of unique letter forms that would comprise his aerial alphabet. While you may question the extremity of his determination (and that he may have TOO much time on his hand), you have.. || Continue Reading →