Between 11-15 September, in Antwerp took place the ➔ AtypI 2018 event, the sixty-second annual conference of the non-profit Association Typographique Internationale.
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The biggest calligraphy artwork in the world by Pokras Lampas
Calligraffiti artist Pokras Lampas in cooperation with Voogie creates the biggest calligraphy artwork in the world. This happened in September 2015 on the Red October factory plant roof Moscow.
TCCC Unity – Coca-Cola custom typeface
It seems that this trend (see Apple, Samsung, IBM, Youtube etc.) to be continuing. I have no idea why now and not 10 years ago and also why only for such companies is considered “news”.
The typeface was designed by Brody Associates.
R-Typography is a type foundry run by Rui Abreu
Rui Abreu is a type designer living in Lisbon dedicated to R-Typography’s retail Library which provides custom typefaces for corporate clients.
Annual Report for TuerkTraktoer
Annual Report Design for a Turkish tractor company named TürkTraktör.
Stopwatch free typeface
Stopwatch is a typographic experiment designed initially as part of an on-air graphics pitch designed by Alex Townsend.
Banto typeface
Banto typeface is designed by Teo Tuominen and has six weights from Extralight to Extrabold but only the Medium has full Latin extended language support and punctuation.
Bilingual Lettering by Tien-Min Liao
Bilingual Lettering is a study by ➔ Tien-Min Liao, a New York based graphic designer with a focus on typeface and logotype design. It’s a series of Latin-Kanji pairing studies for use in ➔ bilingual lettering and logotype.
Carolinéale typeface
“The emergence of early musical notations, which started from the eighth century onwards, ended a secular tradition of melodies’ learning based on word-of-mouth. The first musical notes written down on parchment (called neumes) will then evolve over the centuries to become our modern system of musical notation. Two carolingian scriptures particularly caught the attention of paleographers:
Typomag .typography in magazine
Typomag —typography in magazines— was curated and designed by Laura Meseguer with the help of Floor Koop, Claudia Parra and Luis Mendo. Paperback: 191 pages Publisher: BIS Publishers BV; 01 edition (27 July 2010) Language: English
TypeCon 2016 Clock App
MuirMcNeil have designed a clock for TypeCon 2016 using 9 typefaces / 66 fonts from MuirMcNeil’s TwoPoint and TwoPlus type systems. In two precisely registered layers, fonts for time, date, and background panels are programmed to change randomly each minute. With layer colours reversing for am and pm, this results in a possible 8,712 overlay
ecal typefaces project
With this website initiated with Swiss Typefaces, ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne is probably the first university in the world to have launched an online type foundry, allowing direct access for anyone to a selection of typefaces, all designed by students. Fonts designed by students from the Bachelor Graphic Design and Master Art Direction
New features in Glyphs v2.4
What you’ll find in Glyphs v2.4: — Preliminary Support for Variable Fonts — Color Fonts — Interpolation — Path Editing — Image Improvements — Sidebar Filters — Better Compression for WOFFs — TrueType Zones — TrueType Instructor: Deltas, Shortcuts, and more — New Custom Parameters — Improved AppleScript support — UI Improvements and more …
Zeitung typeface
The Zeitung typeface was designed by Bas Jacobs, Sami Kortemäki and Akiem Helmling and released by Underware foundry in nov. 2016 It is available in Thin, Extralight, Light, Regular, Semibold, Bold, Extrabold Black plus Italics. underware.nl/fonts/zeitung/features/
FontLab 6 Public Preview available for download
FontLab 6 Public Preview now available for download. Have no clue the date for the final version but i think worth the wait. Take a look for new features and more … (all bellow images © fontlab)
Typo 9010 .Czech Digitized Typefaces 1990–2010
Typo 9010 unites an encyclopaedic collection of Czech digitized typefaces starting from 1990, a time when computers were starting to replace phototypesetting and copying letters by hand, and ending with 2010, when almost a dozen small type foundries were operating in the country. Over the past twenty years Czech type designers have created a number
Typodarium 2017
The new Typodarium 2017 with 365 fonts from 263 designers from 30 nations in 12 fresh colors. Editors: Lars Harmsen, Raban Ruddigkeit Art direction: Florian Hauer Publisher: Hermann Schmidt Mainz Publication: September 2016 Format: 8.5 x 12 cm Scope: 263 designers from 30 countries on 384 sheets Language: English Price: 19,80 Euro
Identity for Bread & Butter designed by Craig and Karl
New identity for Bread & Butter, Berlin, encompassing the theme ‘NOW’. An emoji-style language of iconic and ironic graphics was developed integrating elements of fashion, music, food and the city of Berlin itself into the branding. Appearing in various combinations from campaign imagery to website, signage and merchandise, the icons bring an essential liveliness and
Yearbook of Type II by Slanted
Type foundries: 29Letters, A is for…, AB Type Foundry, ADTypo, AinsiFont, Atelier télescopique, Atlas Font Foundry, Baldinger Vu-Huu, binnenland, Bold Monday, Brownfox, Cape Arcona Type Foundry, Carrois Type Design, die Typonauten, dutchfonts, FaceType, Fatype, Font Bureau, Fontfabric, fontfarm.de, FontFont, FontMesa, Fontsmith, FONTYOU, Gestalten, Great Lakes Lettering, HVD Fonts, Indian Type Foundry, International House of Fonts,
Infini typeface designed by Sandrine Nugue
As part of the Graphisme en France 2014 program, the Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP, National Center of Visual Arts) has commissioned a new typeface to be freely downloadable by the public at large. The Infini typeface conceived by _ Sandrine Nugue is a decidedly contemporary design. Infini also admits of a creative and
Akrobat free typeface by Fontfabric
“Akrobat is a modern sans serif font with condensed proportions. The typeface comes in 8 weights with a geometric aesthetics and slight neo-grotesque characteristic. It’s narrow proportions makes it perfect for headlines, logos, typographic compositions and short paragraphs of text. Akrobat contains more than 500 glyphs with a wide range of languages – extended Latin
Spector, capture any typeface and color from the real world
Place Spector on a typeface you like and see it change to exact typeface on screen. It’s a handheld tool that captures typefaces and colors from printed materials and transfers them straight to InDesign. Now as a functional prototype designed by _ Fiona O’Leary. Good luck!
David Carson quotes
I’m not gonna show his work cos it is pointless, anyone know his work or at least should be. Till now I’ve no read his quotes but since I found some, I said to myself that would be fine to design some posters for _ dsgn.news. So, here they are.
Marbles .Typographic experiment by Superfried
“Whilst developing a typographic style for a US client, this route was relegated from the process. The freedom of the paths allowed for experimentation across a variety of graphic styles. With Marbles now the designated name for the project it would be remiss not to experiment in C4D to create the marble style for real.
Dala Prisma typeface
Dala Prisma is a development of the stencil typeface Dala Floda, replacing the solid forms with a series of stripes which vary in width, offering a wonderful optical effect. The family was conceived by Paul Barnes and drawn by Ben Kiel of Typefounding, using a purpose-built tool by the brilliant Frederik Berlaen, the creator of
Type Hybrid .Typography in Multilingual Design
Type Hybrid .Typography in Multilingual Design “Type Hybrid is a groundbreaking research into the specialist area. The book begins with a collection of 120 logotypes that feature synchronised multilingual details within a compact design. The showcase then expands to probe into 100 visual communication solutions. From corporate branding to event communications and packaging designs, each
Bely Typeface designed by Roxane Gataud
“Bely typeface was designed by Roxane Gataud during the post-graduation “Typography & Language” at ESAD Amiens in 2014. Bely is a type family which is perfectly suited to text setting and includes a roman and an italic body type, a Cyrillic extension, a bold and a titling version. The roman is a radical text type
Google Fonts finally redesigned
Ooh-la-la, finally we have a redesigned Google Fonts website. Clean, nice and functional, in one word — great!
ECAL Graphic Design exhibition and book
On the occasion of the release of the “ECAL Graphic Design” book published by JRP|Ringier, ECAL/University of Art & Design Lausanne presents from 4th March to 8th April at the Gallery l’elac an exhibition of projects realised by students of the Bachelor Graphic Design and the Master Art Direction.
Armenian Alphabet Monument
The Armenian Alphabet Monument is located in the village of Artashavan, at the east side bottom of Mt. Aragats. It was erected in 2005 to the 1600 anniversary of creation of the Armenian alphabet by the design of the famous Armenian architect Jim Torosyan. The monument is an interesting demonstration of the stone carvings of
The Artwork and Lettering of Job Wouters Letman
He is cuckoo about letters, he loves them, so far is certain. He is also one of those fellows who can read a chunky novel in a couple of hours, but that’s a different story. Discover more about his works Job Wouters Letman or buy his book.
Museum – A House for Learning by Péter György
György Péter: Múzeum, a tanuló-ház book for Museum of Fine Arts Budapest. This is the first volume of a museum theory book series. In each book we present different young hungarian type designers. Designer: Viktor Suszter Colors: Black, Pantone Cool Grey 8U, Pantone 805 U Paper: Munken Polar Fonts: Chronicle – Hoefler and Freere Jones,
Slanted Magazine 26 – New York
Each time i’m very pleased to read this magazine. Find out more buy more editions or watch some additional interviews.
20th Biennale of Sydney identity
Well done identity system designed by For the People studio.
The main logo is typeset in one of seven custom typefaces designed by Mathieu Reguer.
New Typeface for Scottish Football Association
New Typeface for Scottish Football Association made by D8 agency
Salvaje typeface by Cristian Varga
Typeface /Salvaje Designer /Cristian Varga ➔ Studio Typozon
Alan Kitching’s A-Z of Letterpress
“A must for letterpress enthusiasts and graphic designers, this is a covetable showcase of Alan Kitching’s fount collection. Each page has been carefully created by Alan Kitching in collaboration with Angus Hyland, making this book a work of typographic art in its own right. Presented as an A to Z, the individual letters are divided