Balderdash

Check out this great 4th year project done by Janine van der Bank.

This is some of my process work of my 4th year project (whole year project). My concept is based on the game of Balderdash. I am aiming to bring forgotten/unknown words to life by building them 3 dimentionally. I am aiming to produce between 12 & 16 'forgotten/strange/balderdash words', together with each words' new definition, published in as what I like to call a DESIGNERS' FICTIONARY . The first two words were basically experiments, but these two words are the first of the bunch. The words are fur fur and goofah.

http://www.behance.net/gallery/4th-year-Typography-project-process%282012-year-project%29/3552125

Font Face

Font Face is a project by Spanish design studio Atipo which pays tribute to 4 typographic legends and their creators. Represented in bold black and white makeup are: Carousel Medium, Clarendon Bold, Caslon Italic and of course Helvetica Bold. Produced from the project are four large posters perfect for putting a smile on the face of any font fan + makeup fanatic.

http://sliceofstyle.com/pulp-fashion-friday-typography-in-makeup/

Viktor & Rolf

These items by Viktor & Rolf caught my eye with their obvious typographic element. Reminds me of something out of a comic strip, but with the speech merged in to the characters.

Viktor & Rolf say “We love fashion, but it’s going so fast. We wanted to say‘No’this season…”

Check out there awesome interactive website
http://www.viktor-rolf.com/

undress ME

Hey bloggers, last theme for handmade typography.  Finding some really interesting stuff, will keep you updated.

BE_ME

Hey you bloggers!! New theme for this week: Humans becoming typography.  See how people will bend backwards just to become the perfect letter!

Millow

Handmade typography for cd cover, so cool!

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Milow-Album-North-and-South/3427115

Typography & Nature

Hey bloggers, new theme for the next two weeks: typography meets nature.

Nire

http://www.typographyserved.com/gallery/IND-PROCESO-DOS/3069771

Type and architecture

Project by Garth Walker

One of his public projects—intensely personal nonetheless—is the typeface and signage at the Constitutional Court complex in Johannesburg. He described wandering around three abandoned apartheid prisons on the site where the court was to be built and photographing all kinds of lettering: crude notice boards, “whites only” signs, and graffiti etched into the dirt walls of cell blocks where political prisoners had been held. “I had lettering from both the captives and their captors,” he said. Beginning with a loopy ‘B’ based on the handwriting of a court justice, he selected individual letterforms from the various artifacts and incorporated them into the typeface. In 2004, the words “Constitutional Court” in South Africa’s eleven official languages were fabricated in 3-D acrylic in Walker’s “Prison Font” in the colors of the South African flag.

Garth Walker: “This was my contribution to the ideals of a nation of truth, dignity and freedom,” Walker asserted, “in a place that was once a bastion of incarceration, torture and repression.”

http://goo.gl/V5sRn

Typography is more than just print

As part of their final school project, design graduates Joseph Egan and Hunter Thompson created anamorphic typography installations that appear to float in mid air.

Meant to explore the “relationship between architecture and graphic design”, according to Egan, these large slogans are only legible from a certain angle.

The ‘It’s More Than Just Print’ work is especially astounding, looking like a Photoshopped image rather than something you could actually step into.


http://designtaxi.com/news/32655/Anamorphic-Typography-Plays-with-Architecture/

BuildMe

Hey blogger fans, new theme: Typography meets Architecture.  There is actually a term for this, typotecture.  The collaboration of the two worlds lends inspiration that go both ways.  Architects get inspiration for typographers & typographers get inspiration form architects.

 

Dana Tanamachi

Graphic designer Dana Tanamachi moved from Texas to Brooklyn to design Broadway show posters and has since become so well known for her custom chalk lettering that it is now her full time job. She has been commissioned by clients such as Oprah, Gwyneth Paltrow, West Elm (where she has a line of paperweights), Rugby Ralph Lauren, Google, The Ace Hotel, Adidas, EveryDay with Rachael Ray, Lululemon Athletica, and Garden & Gun Magazine.

http://www.danatanamachi.com/