Hasta La Ideas

Thanks, Enormous Champion, for the reminder to visit Friends of Type!

This is an invitation designed by Simon Mortimer, a third year student from Lincoln School of Art & Design. It was for a typographic exhibit that focused on 3D type.

Trevor Dixon shows an appreciation for letterforms in his still life photographs.

House Industries has released an interesting collection of typographic posters, printed with the serigraphic process: “Serigraphic genius David Dodde explains that the modifier “hand-” (as in hand-printed, hand-pulled, etc.) has become a loosely defined term in the poster printing trade that may designate that a human being’s upper distal extremity has touched the poster stock at some point before, during or after its manufacturing process. With this and all of our screen-printed posters, David’s hands load the paper in the frame, pull the squeegee, hold it up to carefully examine his work and place it into a drying rack. This process allows him to use richly pigmented inks that must be air dried to maintain the deep flatness that truly define his craftsmanship.”

Kapitza is a foundry in London that specializes in vector illustrations which are available as open type font files. Their latest release is Allotment: “This spring we were finally allocated a small allotment in the London Docklands after being on a waiting list for over five years! Since then we had great fun growing, harvesting and eating our home-grown potatoes, strawberries, onions, squashes and broad beans. We also got inspired by the vegetables, weeds, tools, sheds and bird houses to create a new picture font called Allotment. We hope you like it and that the gardening bug will bite you too!”