Time To Put Our Heads Together
It was a nice surprise to get a copy of the latest project by Greig Anderson of Effektive. We are always keen to see new work from Greig, especially when it’s printed on black Plike by GF Smith, a firm favorite of ours after seeing the results on Raw Type.
The Umlaut
The Umlaut is a free display type foundry from designer Andy Cooke. The foundry’s website is currently in progress, but is open to submissions. Why The Umlaut, you ask? “An Umlaut is a typographical character used within the alphabet, but lacking a place in the alphabetical order”. Looks promising. Here we are, catching up with Andy.
The League of Moveable Type
I’ve been meaning to post this for a while and it’s probably old news now. But, if you haven’t already, go and check out The League of Moveable Type.
D&AD Workout (Part 1): Art Directing The Idea
As part of Raw’s commitment to education, myself and fellow designer Nick Greenwood have taken a couple of trips to ‘That London’ for D&AD Workouts. The first was held by This Is Real Art’s Paul Belford with a surprise visit from Saatchi & Saatchi graduate, Alex Taylor. It was entitled Art Directing the Idea and in hindsight was obviously very catered for art directors…
Lineto
Think Swiss type design and you will probably conjour up images of grids, Josef Müller-Brockmann, and The International Typographic Style. These days though, it’s all about Lineto.
Studio Astrid Stavro
Astrid Stavro is a multi-disciplined graphic designer with clients that include the Royal College of Art, the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art and publishing giant Phaidon.
Chapel Street types
Take a walk down Chapel Street, Salford and the first thing you would notice is the dilapidated buildings, long-forgotten pubs and remnants of what used to be. It’s true. The place is a bit of a tip. But if you dig a little deeper, there’s a wealth of hidden lettering that hints of times gone by and what was—at one time—the city center of Salford.
Battle of the bids
The World Cup in South Africa is over but there’s another reason to build the football hype. The World Cup 2018/2022 bids were announced in February from several hopeful countries. We’ve had a look over the ones we can find and have noticed a typographic battle between England and USA.
Chris Bassett
Chris Bassett is a recent Lincoln graduate who has a varied portfolio of motion graphics, photography and typography. His ISTD project earned him a merit and initially caught our eye with its similarity to a certain project of our own.
For moustache lovers…
Will it be a pencil-thin Didot? How about a handlebar Futura? A walrus Hoefler perhaps? Or maybe something a bit different?
