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
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
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
Daily Advice for a Creative Life by Gui Menga
What about some beautiful advices by Gui Menga
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
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
Typographic Mural
Mural designed and painted for Project:Rhino in Toronto. Via
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
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
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
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
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
(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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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