Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Live & Learn
Live & Learn is a personal project that has slowly been gaining momentum over the past year, which sees my growing collection of quotes from great minds – famed and otherwise – given some loving typographic treatment before finding their way into a range of digital guises.
Easy as 123
We love creating type—it gives you an appreciation for the way characters have been constructed over time. Experimental typefaces offer a freedom of expression and the process often reveals exciting results. Here’s a peak of a few we’ve been working on…
Tsto
This post is a tribute to Tsto a creative agency, based in Helsinki, Finland. The Studio are proud of their can do attitudes, which brings their to-the-point design to life. Their projects are always based on concrete concepts, each beautifully crafted and completely different from the next.
The Northern Block
Following our last post on type foundries we thought it would be nice to share with you one of our latest studio projects which involved creating a new website for type foundry, The Northern Block. It was nice to already be well acquainted with our subject matter and ready to get to work on the structure of the site to help visitors gain as much knowledge about each typeface before investing in one.
Type Foundries
It goes without saying how important typefaces are in the world of visual communication; whether it’s for the copy of a corporate catalogue or custom typeface for a logotype, as designers we all make decisions on the choices of typefaces we pick for each job, based on how appropriate and effective it is for the particular job. Although there are very successful designers out there who actively stick to a handful of typefaces and rarely venture into more unfamiliar choices, (Saving that for another post!) I am more excited and drawn to the wide array of new typefaces that are being released for us to use.
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…
