This set of typography work by graphic designer Ruslan Khasanov from Russia exhibits the results of various experiments with colored or clear liquids on a variety of surfaces. I particularly love the pixel distortion works on the computer monitor, and how the RGB colored stripes from the screen are magnified and distorted by the liquid texture. Very cool experimentation.
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Type Collective is a group of 8 designers — Andrei Ogradă, Alex Beltechi, Felix Hornoiu, Vlad Neuman, Koma, Nicu Duta, Octavian Budai & Vian Peanu, gathered to play and experiment with type as a means to hone their design skills. They created the works below.
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These selected typography works by Teagan White are illustrated with bones, hair and other various anatomy.
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These simple and clean typography works by Margherita Fortuna contain quotes from the likes of Star Wars, Milton Glaser, Banksy, and others.
Mestizo is an OpenType font family designed by Johannes König, published by Volcano Type.
Mestizo is a term traditionally used in Latin America and Spain for people of mixed heritage or descent. In some countries it has come to mean a mixture of European and Amerindian.
The font Mestizo is based on a strict grid system – but combines it with ethnic symbolism. Six weights can be combined in various ways. Accius, Alerio & Amias display the basic geometric shapes, Balbo, Belus & Borba represent the playful icons. Mestizo is available at Volcano Type
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Swissted is an ongoing project by graphic designer Mike Joyce, owner of Stereotype Design in New York City. Drawing from his love of punk rock and Swiss modernism, two movements that have (almost) nothing to do with one another, Mike has redesigned vintage punk, hardcore, new wave, and indie rock show flyers into international typographic style posters. Each design is set in lowercase berthold akzidenz-grotesk medium (not helvetica). every single one of these shows actually happened.
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Learn the history of the animated GIF in this short claymation video directed by Sean Pecknold.
Everyday for an entire year, Jonas Buntenbruch from Germany completed a design per day as a way to perfect and explore his graphic designing skills. There is wide range of work on his website aptly named “DONE” with 366 pieces of work. We included some of our favorites making use of typography below. Some of you digital artists might also like to check out his doneload page, with useful tools for graphic design resources
As an experiment, I grabbed some photos of vintage automobile logos from beastpieces.com and applied a vintage effect (tutorial here) to them in photoshop. I think the effect brings out the dated quality of the logos and the vehicles themselves. Some images came out better than others, but it was fun way to apply the vintage effect technique.
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Graphic Artist, Leandro Senna stepped out of his normal element of designing with the computer, and took a more hands on approach with this project “Bob Dylan’s Hand Lettering Experience” in which he uses unique pen and pencil typography to illustrate Bob Dylan’s lyrics.
About the project, Senna writes:
Inspired by Bob Dylan´s Subterranean Homesick Blues video, where he flips cards with the lyrics as the song plays, I decided to recreate those cards with handmade type. I ended up doing all the lyrics, and not just some of the words, as Dylan did.
There are 66 cards done in one month during my spare time using only pencil, black tint pens and brushes. The challenge was not to use the computer, no retouching was allowed. Getting a letter wrong meant starting the page over.
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