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The Alphabet 2 from n9ve on Vimeo. Super ambitious, super fun. I like the wide array of effects and the overall quirkiness of this short video. Great work coming from the talented Turin, Italy based design studio ’9nve’. Notes from Vimeo: “The Alphabet 2- a horn book video experiment – is a developmental spelling – video where each [...] Digital Alphabet in Stone – Dom Hans van der Laan/Autobahn 2011 from autobahn on Vimeo. This is an interesting and rare view into the art of transferring type from the digital medium to stone. Makes for a fun view for those who enjoy great type and amazing old world skills. Visit -> www.autobahn.nl One of the more inspiring portfolios that I have seen in a long time is coming from France based design duo Thomas Couderc & Clément Vauchez. Everything from photo composite fine art prints to beautifully designed, energetic typography poster concepts, their portfolio site is a great destination to harvest some fresh ideas. Visit -> http://www.helmo.fr/ The typography works coming from NYC based designer Ana Gomez are pretty amazing to take in. The accuracy and consistent flow of the line quality is nothing short of fantastic and great fun to look over. Notes from Behance: “Octave has been created with the intention of fusing together the graphical elements of written musical composition with the English alphabet. [...] A Brief History of Title Design from Ian Albinson on Vimeo. This video was produced for the SXSW “Excellence in Title Design” competition screening. It’s pretty fun to see all of those old title screens that we’ve all become so familiar with build to present day. A complete list of movie titles shown can be seen on the [...] This is a nice fluid alphabet animation created by Sardinia, Italy based designer N9VE, where each character is the initial letter of a font name. Pretty slick, I like the hand rendered, herky-jerky style. Click through to watch it on Vimeo. View -> http://vimeo.com/18499580 Visit -> http://www.n9ve.it/ Many in the design community have claimed that 2010 was the year of the infographic. With design forward organizations like GOOD magazine, countless agencies and independent designers all taking a crack at reinventing the idea of information design in the past couple years, it’s become a fun trend to track. The fantastic examples above are from a [...] When I was in school I thought my typography teacher was pure evil for having us hand letter the alphabet over and over until we got our kerning and serifs perfectly nailed down. Years later, I now understand and greatly appreciate what he was teaching us. Brooklyn based designer Dana Tanamachi has a collection of [...] ALPHABLOKS – Motion Typography from Colin Evoy Sebestyen on Vimeo. This project was assigned and created by professor Colin Evoy Sebestyen as a motion graphics challenge at the Academy of Art University, San Francisco. I like that he takes part in the projects that he assigns to his students, seems to be a very collaborative approach to [...] If you have a second to spare today and you enjoy retro-classic illustration and typography, you should check out Belgium based designer Veerle Pieters’s ‘inspiration stream’. She’s taken the time to curate a nice collection of retro-kitche works by various designers and artists. Her entire site is a great place to click around for inspiration. View [...] I really like Marco Puccini’s overall style, super modern and perfectly on-trend with a nice overlay of texture and distress that gives each piece a vintage quality. His Tumblr blog is full of really nice design, type and illustration to gain inspiration from. I also like that his portfolio site is pretty much a straight-up [...] Christoph Ruprecht is a creative director from Germany with some serious chops in graphic art/design and typography. His works transcend the bounds of print design and extend into the realm of fine art. Much of his graphic design reminds me of works by the great surrealists Miro, Dali and Tanguy. You’ll have to check out [...] The fresh album art above is coming from Portland based creative studio ‘Colorcubic’, owned and operated by Michael John & Christy Lai. On their Behance page they have each album cover next to the audio track (via-soundcloud) that inspired the design direction, making it an entertaining presentation to experience. Visit -> http://www.behance.net/ Visit -> http://colorcubic.com/ This week was kind of an interesting week in type design. After watching Gap inc completely flop the introduction of a wildly new and obscenely corporate logo for themselves -> check out some of the backlash: http://craplogo.me/ – http://www.qbn.com/topics/642743/ …pretty amazing. You wonder how these things can happen when there are so many well designed typeface options out [...] Milan, Italy based designer dubbed as ‘Nico189′ has got some pretty fresh stuff up on his Flickr stream lately. His portfolio site and behance page are also a solid source for fresh ideas and inspiration. Visit -> http://www.flickr.com/photos/nico189 Visit -> http://www.nico189.com/ Visit -> http://www.behance.net/nico189 |
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