The Journal of Urban Typography is dedicated to the documentation and study of signs, word fragments, and typography created with utilitarian intent in urban environments. Photos can be submitted to the site’s creator Bryan Collins.
The Journal of Urban Typography
2012-05-16I Want Candy Typography
2012-04-16
Here’s a typography feast to satisfy your sweet tooth. (< --- puns rule). Samuel Carter Mensah, a University of London student used real candy arranged in the Avant Garde Gothic typeface for this "I Want Candy" typography experiment.
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Handmade Type (literally) by Tien-Min Liao
2012-04-04
New York based graphic designer Tien-Min Liao‘s “Handmade Type” series is a typographic experiment exploring the relationships between upper-case and lower-case letters, and also records the transformation between them.
Marking herself with ink on her hands and arms, Liao creates interchangeable letterforms that can change from upper to lower case depending on her gesture. Check out the photos and video below:
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Micro Type by Rus Khasanov
2012-04-02
“Micro Type”is a font created by a Russian designer/digital artist, Rus Khasanov. On his website it says that he was “inspired by microorganisms”. However, it is disclosed to how his beautiful typography was created.
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Typography by & type
2012-03-28
Italy based collective, & type put is quite imply on their flickr profile:
We love type.
We love drawing type.
We love paper.
We love the ink on our hands.
Here are some handmade typography creations from & type:
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Letters Are My Friends
2012-03-21
Letters Are My Friends is a Berlin based a concept store for typography right in the heart of Berlin Kreuzberg. A place where analogue and digital type meet with emerging technologies.
In their showroom, ‘Letters Are My Friends’ present applied typography in a dazzling variety: peripherical perforated paper projections, spacy letterboxing, type’n'motion voxel folding, 3D ink raycasting, turntypetablelism, dolby surround fatcap-tracking, tasty toasted gpu fonts, trigonometric triangle trading and of course some serious conversations about language, its aesthetics and the future of writing.
‘Letters Are My Friends’ is a research lab and production label run by Ingo Italic and Bärbel Bold. We share an interdisciplinary and experimental approach to services and products related to typography, motion- and interaction design.
Check out photos of their showroom and some of their work below:
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Sweeping Beauty Calligraffiti by Niels Shoe Meulman
2012-03-02
Niels Shoe Meulman is an artist, designer, and art director from Amsterdam, also known as “Shoe” within the graffiti community. Meulman revolutionized the art of writing with Calligraffiti, an art form that fuses calligraphy and graffiti. The video below shows the creation of a temporary calligraffiti piece written on the sidewalk with a brush and water.
Beach Calligraphy by Andrew van der Merwe
2012-02-27
South African based calligrapher and letter artist Andrew van der Merwe has developed his own technique for carving letters into the sand that he calls “beach calligraphy”. Below are some of his works in which he gives unique calligraphy treatments to people’s names, african symbols and a company logos. Andrew documents the process that goes into his sandy typography creations at his behance network profile.
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Illustrations by Tommaso Meli
2012-02-10
Tommaso Meli is an illustrator from Parma, Italy. The morbid scenes found his work are balanced by playful colors and comical looking characters. While typography is not the focus of his illustrations, some pieces make use of typographic doodles in a wide range of styles.
4CP – Four Color Process – 20th Century Print Culture
2012-02-01
By zooming in on and scanning different comic book illustrations, John Hilgart’s 4CP website exposes the four color process that is used to print comic books. With their tantalizing bursts of color, these close up scans can make for mysteriously abstract textures or ambiguous snapshots of dramatic comic book moments. Taken out of the context of their story, the close ups on 4CP illustrate the chaotic nature of the four color process and represent comic book illustrations as works of art from a new and exciting perspective.
