Ed Ruscha was illustrating type when your folks were still in nappies
11/6/2009 9:14:25 AM
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Well maybe not... but he was achieving the kind of effects by hand that most of us still struggle to do digitally some 40 years later. Respect.
Ed Ruscha
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Eric Waetzig's rather handy
11/5/2009 10:49:51 AM
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Eric Waetzig is a LA based designer and art director who is rather handy with both illustrative and graphic typography... a little snapshot below. Nice.
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The King Pin by Nate Holmes Trapnell
10/30/2009 5:00:46 PM
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The King Pin is the name of an upcoming show by the talented Melbourne based illustrator Nate Holmes Trapnell which opens November 12 at Gorker Gallery. The series is based around a crew of seedy bowlers with names like Pin Ponies and Slippery Chickens who are inked up to the eyeballs and love their ciggies and hotrods as much as the bowling alley the unites them all. A little tease of what's to come below. Should be an awesome show.
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Laika wow
10/30/2009 3:23:32 PM
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Absolut Visionary Series
10/28/2009 9:19:31 AM
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It's pretty hard to avoid brand sponsored content online these days but it's refreshing to see when people actually do it well. Absolut vodka have teamed up with The FADER mag to put together a series of podcasts inspired by the words Doing Things Differently Leads to Something Exceptional. Each word has been given a differently visual interpretation by director Rupert Sanders and has been used as inspiration for The FADER's crate digging. There are 6 podcasts in the series for your downloading pleasure. Nice.
Absolut Visionary Series
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Nike – Run With The Original
10/28/2009 8:56:06 AM
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I recently received a brief from Nike to create a stylized type treatment in my volumous (is that even a word?) script style of a phrase used in an old print campaign. The original line was obivously aimed at encouraging people to purchase genuine Nike apparel over the sea of counterfeit products that were available. It was a pretty cool brief actually. Here's my first stab at it. The designs will end up on T-shirts.. I actually think these would lend themselves really well to those retro glitter heat transfers.
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Speak Up Be Work Safe
10/16/2009 9:30:13 PM
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The awesome typographic illustrations Jonathan Zawada created for the Big Mouth Project have been printed up in large format and placed in two special location bill poster walls in Melbourne. Each wall is 23 A0 sheets long and looks pretty damn amazing if you ask me. If you're in Melbourne, the posters are on Spencer St (across from Souther Cross Station) and on Flemington Rd North Melbourne (just before the big roundabout city bound). If only all bill posters were this pretty.
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Lyrics and Type now online
10/15/2009 1:40:19 PM
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If you weren't lucky enough to pop down to the Lyrics & Type launch last Friday night and haven't had a chance to get down to Gorker Gallery this week to see the typographic prints, all of the work has been put up online and is now available through the Wooden Toy store. There's even a piece by yours truly. It was a great collection of typographic work and fantastic to see such diversity in styles too... a few of my faves below.
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Ms Type
10/14/2009 9:28:08 AM
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I was recently asked to put together a headline treatment for use in an article in the NYTimes on the title Ms. The intention of Ms. as a title is to be somewhat ambiguous so that was theory behind my response... I wanted to create something that was monochromatic and beautifully feminine but a little mysterious at the same time. I kind of dig it.
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Justin Thomas Kay
10/13/2009 9:24:48 AM
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Brooklyn art director, graphic designer and typographer Justin Thomas Kay has a pretty damn solid portfolio of typographic and editorial design work. Clearly also a fan of Mr Lubalin... well who isn't really. Here's a few samples of some of his type treatments. Nice.
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