A clever and much needed extension from the team at FontShop, allowing designers to preview and try different fonts right within Photoshop. Making it much easier to find the perfect typeface to fit your design. I can see this extension increasing impulse buys, finding the right typeface for a…
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Roberts work proceeds him having created some of the most important typefaces while at Adobe, my personal favourites being Myriad, Minion and Garamond. Robert has gained many awards for his work, including the Prix Charles Peignot in 1991, and numerous Type Directors Club awards. In 2006, Robert…
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Beautifully designed bottles by German designer Timo Thurner. The mostly typographic approach is visually strong and appealing. The colours are also effective along with the typographic treatment on the lids. You can view more of Timo’s work on his portfolio
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Pompiere The lovely Pompiere is our favourite of the bunch, a beautiful hand-drawn style but remaining elegant and readable. Pompiere is a narrow sans-serif typeface that takes its inspiration from a handlettered sign found outside of a firehouse in New York City. It combines the qualities of…
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Beautiful wine bottle labels from Spanish design studio estudiodorian. A tribute to the land and its symbols through a collection of 6 labels for each wine, whose protagonist is the name of the city illustrated with Baroque ornamentation of the columns of the altar of Our Lady of the Rosary of the…
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An interesting experiment in responsive typography from Marko Dugonjić with the idea that the type will scale up or down based on the users distance from the screen to make the size of the text optimal for the distance. I’ve made a short video demo for those without webcams of the breakpoint …
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Some stunning photos of Japanese moveable type, each character is so small and intricate. Craft letterpress companies are experiencing a revival in recent times, and nowhere it is more evident than in Japan. Most of you will be familiar with the ancient Chinese and Japanese art of woodblock…
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A lovely minimalist poster design for the Jessie Ware Tour from the team at StudioMoross, well worth checking out, some other great work on show. Jessie’s own site is also beautifully minimal and uses Sacker Gothic. Jessie Ware Site | Jessie Ware on Spotify
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These beautiful limited edition screen prints are the work of Pauline Clancy, A freelance graphic designer and MA Student based in Belfast Northern Ireland. Pauline created these prints as part of her development while studying at the University of Ulster Belfast. If you wish to purchase a print…
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If you don’t already know about the MA Typeface Design degree at the University of Reading you should. Each year the small classes produce world class typefaces, a few of which you will no doubt have used or seen in use today. With some notable graduates such as Vincent Connare, of Comic Sans…
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