Archive for the ‘General’ Category
2012 = New contributors
As 2012 dawns, we’re pleased to announce a couple of new contributors to Raw Type, Tim Wan and Michael Mercer-Brown. We enjoyed their company in 2011 as both guys were on placement at Raw. Apart from being very good designers with a love of typography, they’re also genuinely great people so we’re very pleased to have them on the Good Ship Raw Type. All aboard…
Amsterdam
Last year I enjoyed a lovely break in the tulip/typography Mecca that is Amsterdam. It was the fist time I’ve visited this beautiful city, but it certainly won’t be the last – especially with sights as lovely as these…
Jeff Canham
His colourful, typographic compositions showcase his skills as an artist, graphic designer, and traditional sign painter. From art directing Surfer Magazine to learning the time-honored craft of sign painting his juxtaposition of old and new methods have evolved to form the backbone of his work today. His sign painting, typography and hand lettering style are gorgeous and truly inspiring. His latest work, are these beautiful large flags that will decorate The Standard’s Hotel in NYC, they have been popping up in a few twitter feeds of late. Not only is the project in hand a visually stunning the process of creating the visuals is pretty impressive.
Quadradao
Brazilian agency Quadradao (which roughly translates as ‘boxy’) have recently relaunched their site with lots of lovely new projects. The timeline-inspired navigation is like an education into their evolution. I admire their simplicity of predominantly working in type, shape and colour. “Modern architecture influences us, not as form but as a method”.
Enter The Comp
We’ve managed to get our hands on a couple of Enter The Void posters, one of which is signed by the great Gaspar Noé himself. Because nobody in the studio can decide who should have them we thought we’d open it up to everyone. Just answer the following question…
Open Brief – Winner
We have a winner, and as you may have guessed from the image above, it’s Michael Mercer-Brown. He’s certainly a worthy winner and we’re very excited to work with him in the studio. Once again, we’d like to thank everyone who submitted work as well as the other finalists – the quality was very high, but the people (you) have spoken.
Finalists – Vote
After reading through lots of submissions, and plenty of debating we have our finalists. We’d like to thank everyone who entered – there were some fantastically bizarre and wonderfully creative responses to our Open brief. There can be, however, one winner and we’d like to give you — the Raw Type viewers — the power. So (in our best dramatic voice) the finalists are…
Finalists – Spotlight
It’s extremely difficult to judge the finalists purely on their final posters, that’s why we’ve shed a bit more light on each execution. For experimental type, the idea and the process is often more interesting than the outcome…
ISTD Awards 2011
The call to find the best typographic designs in print and interactive 2011 is out. The bi-annual ISTD Awards, the awards scheme of the International Society of Typographic Designers, are held as an appraisal of current standards in typographic design globally and are judged by some of today’s leading graphic, interactive and typographic design specialists.
Mega + Maag
Danish agency, Mega, are a consultancy that specialise in identity. Their work often leads to typographic solutions and they frequently call on those type-aficionados, Dalton Maag, to give a helping hand.
