Basée à Vancouver au Canada, Head & Heart est spécialisée dans la création et la vente de pochettes de costumes. D’une grande beauté, ces élégants modèles colorés proposent des messages décalés, embellis par de jolies typographies. Des créations limitées à 300 exemplaires à découvrir dans la suite.
Winning Solutions a récemment sorti la 2ème édition du « Scrabble Typography » pensée par Andrew Capener. Proposant 15 typographies différentes et un plateau d’une grande qualité, ce jeu d’une valeur de 200 dollars est à découvrir en détails et en images dans la suite de l’article.
Après avoir déjà pu parler de son talent pour la typographie, l’artiste new-yorkaise Dana Tanamachi a réalisé récemment « Flourish », un projet personnel fait en collaboration avec Andrew Ryan Shepherd à découvrir en vidéo dans la suite. Une fresque typographique dorée magnifiée par le vidéaste.
Graphic designer Cristina Vanko has been writing out all the SMS messages she sends by hand with a calligraphy pen.
Calling the project Modern Day Snail Mail, Cristina Vanko began to answer friends’ text messages with photographs of handwritten replies after finding her father’s old calligraphy pen.
“Basically, calligraphy is something that people just don’t get enough of today,” Vanko said in a post about the project on her blog, explaining that the soft gold tip of the pen allows for different thicknesses of stroke.
“The harder you press down on the pen’s nib, the thicker the line. When less pressure is given, the thinner the line,” she explained.
“I quickly began creating illustrious letterforms with the perfect balance of thick and thin strokes,” she continued. “I wrote out the alphabet, popular phrases, curse words (that looked beautiful might I add) and then I sent doodle-filled text messages to a couple of my design-y friends notifying them about the magic of this pen.”
“After texting some doodles, I decided to send handwritten messages to people for that next week,” she said.
Some friends responded with their own hand-written messages and the designer concluded that “people feel more ‘special’ when they received handwritten messages.”
She also noted that accuracy in spelling and grammar matter much more in a handwritten note and that modern culture relies heavily on emoticons for communication.
Cristina Vanko graduated in graphic design and Spanish from Indiana University in 2011 and now works as a multidisciplinary designer in Chicago.
Other stories about lettering on Dezeen include a typeface with strands of human hair, a font made of impossible 3D shapes and another font made of sugar.
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Product news: Milan company Looodus has designed a toy that allows children to learn about typography and the alphabet at the same time.
Looodus laser cut each of the 26 letters in the alphabet in the shape of a typeface that begins with that letter, so T is represented by Times New Roman and P is written in Playbill.
The letters slot into a wooden board with the names of the fonts inscribed under each.
Fonts were carefully selected for their shapes and sizes, and come in shades of green, blue or red.
The designers originally created the Font Alphabet Puzzle for their young daughter. “There are opportunities which arise every day to be creative and make quick fun toys for her, using the most rudimentary materials and sometimes these mini prototypes can become more refined products,” said Looodus co-founder Kurt Stapelfeldt.
Looodus was founded in Milan this year by Stapelfeldt and photographer Denise Bonenti.
Other toy designs that have featured on Dezeen include dolls’ houses designed by 20 architects and designers including Zaha Hadid and David Adjaye and a tricycle crafted from bamboo. See more toy designs »
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Strong and Silent Types. The new crew at the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum stands in front of a vintage photo of their predecessors.
Wisconsin’s Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum–the only museum dedicated to the preservation, study, production, and printing of wood type–recently moved into a new home in Two Rivers, and the race is on to reopening day. Helping to inaugurate the new space will be the museum’s annual Wayzgoose type conference, which gets underway November 8. Among the special guest speakers this year is the fontastic Erik Spiekermann, for whom a typographic tribute is in the works: Hamilton will be cutting the Spiekermann-designed font, “HARD” (pictured above), at the conference. “I’m excited to see Hamilton cut this font using traditional methods,” says Spiekermann. “With Hamilton’s vintage pantographs and former type-cutting employees, this will be a chance to see history in the remaking.”
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Amsterdam designer Monique Goossens has made a typeface with strands of human hair.
Goossens’ Hair Typography is crafted by arranging bunches of hairs into the shapes of single letters. Each character has a dense centre and becomes increasingly sparse towards the edges.
“The shapes of the letters are created by forming the hairs into a legible character,” said Goossens. “The ends of the hairs create an organised chaos – an energetic play of lines, which form a haze around the shape.”
The script letters have fluid strokes and the designer compares the individual filaments to fine pen lines. Each letter has interwoven curling lines and can be made in a variety of weights.
Once the letters are formed, Goossens photographs the characters for reproduction. The designer told Dezeen that she hopes the font will be used for magazine or book covers, and individual commissions can be made directly from the designer.
Goossens studied interior design at Academie Artemis in Amsterdam, and photography and design at Design Academy Eindhoven. She currently teaches Interior Design and Visual Communication at Academie Artemis.
Other objects made of hair on Dezeen include a hairbrush, a lamp and a range of spectacle frames.
In other graphic design news, British graphic designer Peter Saville was named winner of this year’s London Design Medal and announced he is working on a new identity for Kanye West.
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Here’s a full project description from Goossens:
Hair Typography
The hair letters consist of hundreds of hairs and give the impression of being fine pen drawings. The basic shape of the letters are created by forming the hairs into a legible character, during which I follow the natural characteristics of the hairs: curly, rounded corners, springiness.
To a great extent, it is the dynamic of the hairs which determines the shape of the letters. The ends of the hairs create an organized chaos, an energetic play of lines which forms a haze around the letter’s basic shape.
About Monique Goossens
Designer Monique Goossens studied at Academie Artemis in Amsterdam, graduating cum laude in Interior Design Styling in 2006. During her studies, she developed an interest in the relationship between design and photography which she went on to explore in depth during further study at the Design Academy in Eindhoven.
Monique Goossens’ work includes elements of both design and autonomous art. It often takes the form of staged images in which she challenges established concepts of function and material. In consequence, shifts occur at elementary level and result in a degree of estrangement. A refined appreciation of materials enhances this process, leading to beautiful and unexpected discoveries. Photographs of these scenes become the definitive works.
Monique’s work is playful, humorous, surprising. Her graphic work follows a similar process as she collates photographs into books and develops letter types using a range of materials.
Monique currently teaches Interior Prognoses at Academie Artemis.
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Le studio You Talking To Me, créé par les deux designers français Antoni Bellanger et Bertrand Reguron, lance des éditions limités d’objets typographiques pour les particuliers comme pour les entreprises. Les matériaux varient du bois à l’aluminium , en passant par le pvc et le résultat est superbe.
Ben Johnson a crée un mur en typographie pour Project:Rhino, un espace de co-working dans le centre de Toronto. La vidéo en noir et blanc réalisée par Asterisk Media montre l’artiste en plein processus créatif, du croquis à la réalisation de la fresque à la peinture et au marqueur. Un très beau projet en images et en vidéo.
Type:Rider est un jeu qui sera disponible sur smartphones/tablettes et qui a pour ambition de faire découvrir la typographie à travers une expérience interactive et transmédia. De la peinture préhistorique jusqu’au pixel-art, cette création, à l’univers graphique très réussi, a été réalisée par Cosmografik, le tout proposée par Arte.
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