Sunday Type: inspiring type
Another busy week, and a later than usual Sunday Type. Owing to work commitments that have a habit of intefering with iLT, those articles I promised will be posted, though a little later than scheduled. Several big articles are on their way: the fifth part in the History of Typography series, a personal piece on Why Type Matters, a couple of interviews, and the Combining Type article that outlines how to combine serifed typefaces with sans serif ones. In the meantime, here’s something to inspire you:
First up is some lovely lettering from Russian Maxwell Lord:
Stunning photography from Steve Leadbeater:
A lovely poster for the Raking Leaves exhibition in Berlin:
Work of Andrio Abero:
These wonderful creations from Bath-based Ice House Design:
Typigraphy. Brilliant. Thanks to Richard Spencer Davies for the heads up.
These are very, very clever:
Not sure what to call them, but Kanjiograms sounds good to me. From Connecting the Dots (Japanese).
Extensis’ followup to Brave Font, Max Kerning. You’ll either love it or hate it:
A series of wallpapers (who knows, perhaps one day they will become t-shirts or screen-printed posters), where I show you some of my favourite letterforms:
Why not join the My Favourite Letters Flickr Group and show me yours.
Via notcot.
I’ve mentioned the work of Oded Ezer several times before. Michael Bierut called him “[the] master of inventive Hebrew lettering”:
from his Typoplastic Surgeries series.
Sunday links
MyFonts Rising Stars
Pricing tables showcase
Frilly bits typographic inspiration—thanks, Alec.
Jean François Porchez’s Type History, part 2
Interview with Lucas De Groot
Hangul, the world’s most perfect script—H&FJ
New fonts
First is Recovery, a single weight display sans, from James Puckett. Released via TypeTrust:
Next is Montague Script by Stephen Rapp, a gorgeous contemporary script:
Free things
Don’t forget to get your copy of the Font Magazine, free from FontShop. Just sign up (it’s free and easy), and you’ll get some great type, sitting proudly on its favourite substrate—good old paper.
Quicksand (seven fonts), from Andrew Paglinawan:
The link to the fonts is in this Typophile thread.
Prizes
Darren Marshall of ampertee has kindly offered one of his t-shirts as a prize.
To be in with a chance of winning one, name the typefaces that these two S’s are taken from:
Send your answers via the contact form. I’ll choose a correct entry at random, and announce the winner next week.
I’m only about a third of the way through my list of things to post this week, but it’s back to work for me. I will try to post more during the week. Have an inspiring, productive, and happy week. And, on a light note, this has to be the ultimate pet name.
— Stephen Coles
— Hochuli & Kinross
Simon Robertson
amazing as usual johno! thanks!
Oct 15, 2008
Jean F Porchez
Recovery: interesting figures and comma. :)
Oct 15, 2008
Alec
Recovery is lovely, and your new Flickr group is, as they said 20 years ago here in the US, the bomb. (That’s a good thing.)
Oct 15, 2008
Alice
I’m loving those re-invented kanji! They might even help with my Japanese studies…
As always, beautiful typography and images! Thanks!
Oct 15, 2008
Jongseong Park
Thanks for the Hangul link from H&FJ. Last week, on the 9th, we celebrated Hangul Day here in Korea. A couple of quality free fonts for Korean were released to mark the occasion; more on this soon, I promise.
Oct 15, 2008
Zach
I hate to be That Guy, but how is Recovery different from Eagle?
I see in the About section that it’s a “reinterpretation” but it doesn’t seem at all different to me.
Oct 15, 2008
Zach
OK, I’ll answer my own question in an attempt to look less like That Guy. There’s no lowercase, but small caps instead, which is cool. Some of the horizontal strokes like on the Z and T are slightly flared, which is also cool. Finally, it’s cheap, which is very cool.
Oct 15, 2008
ruthibelle
nice blog
Oct 15, 2008
Hosting Reviews
Maxwell Lord is extremely talented. Great stuff!
Oct 15, 2008
Robert
Good stuff this week, that Max Kerning is a riot. Those posters by Andrio Abero are really good. I love the style and look them. Good stuff :)
Oct 16, 2008
Robert
Good stuff this week, that Max Kerning is a riot. Those posters by Andrio Abero are really good, I love the style of them. The iLT header looks sexy set in Recovery, I’m curious to see if James Puckett will make a full font family with this. That “G” is really unique.
Oct 16, 2008
Dariusz Ejkiewicz
I love the Maxwell Lord piece. And the Abero Umbrella poster is just great!
Oct 16, 2008
Mark
Another great Sunday type! I especially enjoyed the Max Kerning, what a laugh it was :)
Oct 17, 2008
marc goodin
cool stuff!
you guys ever think of doing T shirts?
Oct 19, 2008
LaurenMarie - Creative Curio
Ok, I’ve uploaded my very first typographic wallpaper to the Flickr group. I like seeing what others have contributed, as well as your own, Johno. You have a real gift for great design; everything so perfectly aligned and balanced. Love it! It’d be great to see more of your work :D
Oct 20, 2008
johno
Lauren
Thanks for contributing. Most of the time, it’s a happy accident, and, for that kind of illustration, I always divide the canvas into five, both horizontally and vertically (then align approximately to the resulting grid). I think it’s time I caught up on your blog…
Oct 20, 2008
LaurenMarie - Creative Curio
Fortunately for you, there’s not a whole lot to catch up on :P I haven’t been publishing regularly lately. Stressful and uninspiring work situation has left me unsure what to write about (except finishing up the principles of design, but I need lots of time for those). Well, “this too shall pass” right? :)
Oct 21, 2008