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Blend Festival – Celebrating design and animation by Wine After Coffee

‘Blend is a celebration. It’s a two-day festival for our creative, design and animation loving family. Because when we get together, amazing things happen.’ For the last 5 years, Wine … Continue reading

August 7, 2015 · Leave a comment

Artists, Writers, Thinkers, Dreamers: Portraits of Fifty Famous Folks & All Their Weird Stuff |An illustrated book

We generally just post spectacular books, those we want in our library and we generally buy on an impulsive shopping on Amazon. This is the case of Artists, Writers, Thinkers, … Continue reading

April 29, 2014 · Leave a comment

Beautiful Book Covers by Isabel Urbina Peña

Isabel Urbina Peña is a cover designer at Random House in New York City. She has worked at C&G Partners LLC, American Museum of Natural History, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de … Continue reading

April 24, 2014 · Leave a comment

Daily Advice for a Creative Life by Gui Menga

  What about some beautiful advices by Gui Menga

April 22, 2014 · Leave a comment

Rebranding The Design Pot

The Design Pot is an international editorial project about design, architecture and illustration. Its mission is to bring to the general public “out of the box” designers and artists, supporting … Continue reading

April 8, 2014 · Leave a comment

Famous Fonts In Iconic Buildings

POP has, in collaboration with Pär Ågren, produced a serie of posters presenting and illustrating different typefaces. Helvetica was drawn in 1957 by the Swiss designer Max Miedinger. The goal … Continue reading

April 3, 2014 · Leave a comment

Typographic Mural

Mural designed and painted for Project:Rhino in Toronto. Via

April 1, 2014 · Leave a comment

TYPE Eyewear – Helvetica and Garamond

As the choice of typeface affects expression in written communication, subtle design differences in eyeglasses frames change the impression of the person who wear them. The glasses brand, TYPE, was … Continue reading

February 21, 2014 · Leave a comment

The Type Deck – Typography Playing Cards printed

The Type Deck is a uniquely designed playing card deck. The entire 52 poker cards are displayed through the form of custom typography. Printed by the USPCC. Designed by Chris Cavill … Continue reading

October 2, 2013 · Leave a comment

Lettering made of spices, food and little particles to create beautiful typography

Marmelade Bleue is the website of Danielle Evans, an American illustrator and typographer who loves to use paper cutting, food, chalk, calligraphy, brush pens, and digital practices to achieve her solutions. … Continue reading

October 2, 2013 · 1 Comment

From Paper to Screen

‘Animation which shows typography evolution from paper to screen. The animation is divided in two parts. The first deals with the basic rules of typesetting. The second, is about the … Continue reading

August 15, 2013 · Leave a comment

Taste the Font

“One day in the air of the Prim Prim studio appeared a question – is it possible to describe the taste of the font? That is how the “Taste the … Continue reading

August 15, 2013 · Leave a comment

(Sub)prime Cuts and more

We were going to post a full article about these amazing hand-printed saws created by Vault49, lovely design collective based in New York. Than we fell in love with more … Continue reading

June 8, 2013 · Leave a comment

WRITING: Design On Your Desk

  Writing is the first Italian event dedicated to the stationery design. Writing: Design On Your Desk May 24-26, 2013 Frigoriferi Milanesi Milan, Italy http://www.writingonyourdesk.it

May 21, 2013 · Leave a comment

The Book Affair

The Book Affair is a two day independent publishing fair to be held in the occasion of 55th Venice Art Biennale and organized by Automatic Books publishing house and A Plus A Slovenian Exhibition … Continue reading

May 19, 2013 · Leave a comment

The History of Typography

Do you know what a typeface is? WHere does it come from and why now you can find so many? (And most of all why we designer ALL hate comic … Continue reading

May 8, 2013 · Leave a comment

Chineasy by ShaoLan

A visual-based learning system which teaches Chinese characters, simple stories & phrases. Our aim is to bring down the great wall of Chinese language. “Growing up in Taiwan as the … Continue reading

May 7, 2013 · 1 Comment

PA/PER VIEW

PA/PER VIEW ART BOOK FAIR March 23-24, 2013 11 am – 6 pm WIELS, Av. Van Voixemlaan 345 Brussels, Belgium Preview: March 22, 2013 | 6 – 9 pm http://www.paperviewartbookfair.org

March 22, 2013 · Leave a comment

It’s a Book, it’s a Stage, it’s a Public Place

It’s a Book, It’s a Stage, It’s a Pub­lic Place is a gath­er­ing of inde­pend­ent pub­lish­ers and pub­lish­ing pro­jects. It takes place at the Cent­gal Theater in Leipzig, on March 16th 2013. Par­ti­cipants: AKV, Ber­lin /​ Ana­gram Books, Lon­don /​ Archive … Continue reading

March 16, 2013 · Leave a comment

The Making of John Mayer’s ‘Born & Raised’ Artwork

David A. Smith is a traditional sign-writer/designer specialising in high-quality ornamental hand-crafted reverse glass signs and decorative silvered and gilded mirrors. David recently produced a wonderful turn-of-the-century, trade-card styled album … Continue reading

March 14, 2013 · 1 Comment

Sign Painters features the stories of sign painters working in cities throughout the US

There was a time, as recently as the 1980s, when storefronts, murals, banners, barn signs, billboards, and even street signs were all hand-lettered with brush and paint. But, like many … Continue reading

March 13, 2013 · 1 Comment

The SketchBook of Logos by Jackson Alves

Jackson Alves is a type designer based in Curitiba, south of Brazil, expert in calligraphy, lettering & typography. He created a collection of handwriting logos, showing the process, sketches and … Continue reading

February 19, 2013 · Leave a comment

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