With all ten fingers...

Great work from Chris Thompson, recently graduated from the glasgow school of art.
Lovely posters!

Introducing Gina

See the Specimen booklet.
Read the story behind the font.

Stephanie DeArmond

Stephanie DeArmond makes beautifull ceramics.
(Thanks to Valdemar for finding it.)

Paula Scher "Type is image"

Paula Scher, finalist of the National Design Awards for 2007 in graphics, shows how the type can be image, check it out.

Design&Typo - The site

Wow... what a great resource. Peter Gabor, from design et typo blog (FR), has put together a nice gallery collection, categorized by author or theme, that is a pleasure to browse. Go take a look at the Design&Typo Site.

Some examples:

Spiekermann interview

Nice interview over at ideiasonideias.

Irony mark

The introduction of a new character or even 'just' a punctuation mark is a hard, long and complex process. As every person -who can read or write- has an opinion about language and the use of language, mostly linguistic developments move with the speed of the most conservative writers/readers. Which means, every new proposal will be criticized and most likely won't survive in the end. Most of our currently used characters in the latin alphabet, letters numbers and other characters we use, have a long tradition and history. It's very hard to add a new character which lacks all that history and convention. One of the rare exceptions maybe is the notorious interrobang, invented in the sixties, and now, more than 40 years later, in 2007 natively implemented in Microsofts ClearType font collection.



Commissioned by the CPNB (foundation for the Collective Promotion for the Dutch Book), Underware created an irony character.

Continue reading Irony mark, and the need for new punctuation marks, by underware.

PROFILE: Piet Zwart

Piet Zwart (Zaandijk, 28 May 1885 – Wassenaar, 24 September 1977) was a Dutch photographer, typographer, and industrial designer. He started his career as an architect and worked for Jan Wils and Berlage.


As a designer, Zwart was well known because of his work for both the Nederlandse Kabelfabriek Delft (the Dutch Cable Factory in Delft) and the Dutch Postal Telegraph and Telephone, and as a pioneer of modern typography. He did not adhere to traditional typography rules, but used the basic principles of constructivism and "De Stijl" in his commercial work. His work can be recognized by its primary colors, geometrical shapes, repeated word patterns and an early use of photomontage.
He created a total of 275 designs in 10 years for the NKF Company, almost all typographical works. He resigned in 1933 to become an interior, industrial and furniture designer.
Piet Zwart died at the age of 92 in 1977.

More info at Tipografos.net article on Piet Zwart.(Portuguese)

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Flickr Set then AceJet then a new blog by Vernon: newtypography.

Apple's first logo

Ok, you problably know this, but I had never seen this logo before:

The first Apple's logotype, designed by Ronald Wayne. Wow... and check the first computer, the Apple I:



Long live Wikipedia (Typography of Apple Inc).

Font Clock by Established&Sons

The Font Clock is a 21st century take on the British 24 hour clock design icon. Twelve different fonts are printed within the mechanism of the clock providing a random, mixed display of graphic language within a single time piece. Made by Established&Sons.

Kate Moss - The Brand

With her first line of clothing due to cause riots in Topshop at the beginning of next month, plus other projects in the pipeline, Brand Moss has arrived, her new image sealed by an identity masterminded by Peter Saville, in collaboration with typographer Paul Barnes.

Read the full article at Creative Review.

TDC Winners annouced

Type Directors Club 2007 Winners announced:
With images from many of the designers; others are scans of the entries. Low-density scans cannot do complete justice to the high quality of the printed material.
No rankings are assigned in the TDC competitions; listings are categorically alphabetical, of course!

Image displayed here: Fakir by Underware.

Eric Gill got it wrong; a re-evaluation of Gill Sans

An article by Ben Archer at Typotheque: a face to face between Eric Gill and Edward Jonhston, with a strong inclination for the last one.

Gill Sans is the Helvetica of England; ubiquitous, utilitarian and yet also quite specific in its ability to point to our notions of time and place. As a graphic designer’s in-joke once put it ‘Q. How do you do British post-war design? A. Set it in Gill Sans and print it in British Racing Green’. As the preferred typeface of British establishments (the Railways, the Church, the BBC and Penguin Books), Gill Sans is part of the British visual heritage just like the Union Jack and the safety pin.

So to pick an argument with something that is akin to a typographic national monument might appear unwise; it is so very much ‘ours’. But it is a flawed masterpiece. How flawed? Well, monumentally flawed, in fact. In 2006, now that Gill Sans is distributed freely with Apple’s OS X and Adobe’s Creative Suite products, it is time to re-examine those flaws. Ever since Gill Sans was incorporated into the Adobe/Linotype library in the early 1990s what used to be Monotype Gill Sans became GillSans. The new compound name and the missing foundry attribution serves to distance today’s users of this type from any awareness that Monotype used to issue Gill Sans in a range of different series with alternate cuts. Readers with experience of metal and phototypesetting may recall this system, but for now, the majority of us only have this ‘bundled’ version of GillSans to go by.


Continue reading the article over at Typotheque.

Source: Tipografias.

Burokrata - a new member

Just to let you know that Pedro Ribeiro, (aka Burokrata) is the new contributor of Type for you. Please give him a warm welcome! ;)

New header by Daily Type

Yury Ostromentsky from Daily Type has made some nice experiments with "Type for you", and so now we have a new header for the blog.
Thanks Yuri :)

A0 Magazine

Matt Micjaluk shows us A0 Magazine.

Each edition is a photographic journal of day trips to different destinations around Great Britain.
The magazine is made from 5 A0 photocopies which are then french-folded and stitched down the spine. the first edition photograped in western-super-mare has been blessed with fluro orange type.
The magazine is a collaboration with Adam Tickle, Alistair Webb and Kristina Grundberg.

NEuBAU Berlin

NEUBAU: Typography Section. Some very nice fonts there.
But the rest is also worth viewing.

Günter Eder & Roman Breier

THIS is strong work :)

Source: ManyStuff

Wim Crouwel Interview

Interview with Dutch graphic designer and typographer Wim Crouwel at Galerie Anatome in Paris, 02/2007, from Etapes.

Siruca

Siruca™ is a custom stencil font designed for low-budget signage projects, together with its pictograms.

Also check other fonts by Fabrizio Schavi.