a bit of typographic craft for the shopping masses



Every year we visit our family in the States, and every year we spend time walking around Target. My wife loves it, my kids love it, and I’m able to stock up on my Sharpie pens at half the UK price! But this summer I’ve got a whole new area to explore. (  » continue  )


at last, football and typography meet


It’s not very often you get to see work that combines your work passion with your outside passion, but I have, and thanks goes to Zoran Lucić for designing this vast series of typographic posters celebrating the greatest players to have played the game. (  » continue  )


typefaces painted onto models….mmmm?


Nice video documenting the process that went into creating the posters below. They were produced by the multidisciplinary design studio atipo from Northern Spain. (  » continue  )


pastiche, homage or just plain old rip-off?


Outside the Oxford Circus branch of Niketown in London there’s a typographic wall installation in one of the windows. It’s a direct imitation of Lou Dorfsman’s iconic masterpiece gastrotypographicalassemblage. (  » continue  )


doyald young 1926-2011


Was sad to hear yesterday of the passing of Doyald Young an amazing designer and typographer. (  » continue  )