For the month of August, a series of guest posters will be filling in on DWL with daily posts. Today’s posts come to you from designer Jason Johnson of Nomadic. For more from Jason, be sure to follow him on Dribbble. Enjoy! For quite a few…
Brooklyn-based T. Koppel Design recently launched a brand new website and shop. The shop features a pretty large selection of posters that span topics from TV to type to social issues. In particular, I’m a big fan of the typographic…
Planting Poetry is a series of colorful, typographic sculptures that were created by Burgess Studio for the Ministry of Stories, a charity that aims to inspire young people through creative writing. During a week-long workshop with the charity, the children who participated each created a…
I’ve featured the work of Pratt student Michelle Wang a couple of times before, so it’s no surprise that I’m equally impressed with one of her latest projects. For The Art of Scent, a recent exhibition at MAD that featured 12 scents which…
The Freaks Alphabet, by My Name is Wendy, is a series of letterforms created from a catalog of vector shapes and design sketches. Get a closer look right here.
I’m loving this playful series of numbers that Tatalab created for Yorokobu Magazine. via Present & Correct
The Mood Series, by Riccardo Casinelli, combines cheerful colors with not-so-cheerful messages in this dimensional typography. Love the contrast.
Animography is a side project by Netherlands-based designer Jeroen Krielaars. The site is essentially a type foundry that produces and distributes exclusively animated typefaces. The collection is small but growing, and they’re developing a lot of exciting plans for the future, including…
Loving this typography by Wun Ping Christopher Wong: Merge is a san-serif type face designed with the combination of vector, pencil sketch, fine lines and shades. The philosophy behind this typeface is to find simplicity out of complexity. ‘Merge’ can be…
For her Typo San Francisco talk, Kelli Anderson created these incredible paper type experiments. Each one features intricate letters—mostly white on white—that are cut, shaped and folded out of paper. I can’t even begin to comprehend the time that went…
I’m loving this geometric typographic exploration by Patrick Seymour.
FontShop’s Using Type series is a great resource for beginners and seasoned designers alike. In case you’re not familiar, Using Type is an ongoing series on their blog where they cover the basics of typography in design. Topics such as understanding…
Erik Marinovich recently created this gorgeous lettering and set of numerals for Cincinnati Magazine‘s annual ‘Where to Eat’ issue.
Yesterday Paravel launched a brand new site for type designer Mark Simonson, that puts his many typefaces front and center. It features a fully responsive design and retina optimization, plus web typography using his own Proxima Nova. For a closer…
The folks at Typejockeys recently had the pleasure of designing the album packaging for Freude, the second album from Tombeck. Their work included design for everything from the packaging to the book that accompanies it, and includes a custom typeface,…
Allan Peters recently had the pleasure of designing a typeface for ESPN’s Music Issue, which is currently on newsstands. The resulting typeface, which was inspired by the grooves on a vinyl record, is appropriately named Vinyl. The letterforms were used…
Without further ado… The winner of the GT Pressura Monospaced package is: And the winner of the GT Pressura Proportional package is: Congrats to you both! Grilli Type will be in touch with you soon. There was quite the response to this…
This giveaway is now closed. Readers, I have an awesome giveaway for you today! Independent Swiss type foundry Grilli Type has offered up a fantastic prize for TWO lucky winners. One winner will receive a GT Pressura Monospaced package and one winner will…
