Adam Hayes

Hand drawn alphabet.
Line drawing with pen.

I love the detail in this typeface. I think it works even better because the original typeface used is simple so as to not detract from the illustrations. The tiny details make it something special and not just doodles... the letters do not have a stroke around them but enirely made up of the pen illustrations. each letterform has a different element and some have parts missing and illustrations coming out from them. Really lovely work.

I live in the woods.
T-shirt design.

Filling in the gaps.

Abolish the Forest (2).

From a series of scratched photographs originally exhibited as part of the Abolish the Forest film screening. I am sure I have seen this before but never blogged it. Each time I see it I like it more. I love the interation between image and type. Beautiful stuff. I think I might try and get a copy of this. I find it so inspirational and... waking! Also I am going to try out scratching photographs to add some typography style to them. 

Malika Favre

I saw this typeface a while back in Creative Review (back when it was good) I liked it but have only recently begun to admire it and look deeper into how the letterforms have been created. The colours work beautifully together aswell and make the typeface look classy in my eyes rather than slutty. Negative space is a massive highlight of this piece, really love the use of it to create the figures and strokes also. The style of illustration reminds me alot of Emily Forgot.

I've checked out some of her other work too and its all pretty impressive and she has a really clean and recognisable style of illustration which I like.

Sex typeface for Wallpaper. Malika Favre.

Alphabunnies typeface. Malika Favre.

Andy Smith

The face of disaster, 2000.
Limited edition poster.
Andy Smith.


This typeface is so interesting. Each letter is made up of different torture or disaster situations. It could be used really nicely in a cool layout as a title or something. The content would have to be funny and to do with pin... but it would work well!

National Forest

Everybody enjoys, 2004.
Poster.
National Forest.


This poster makes me feel comfortable... the colours are not striking or overpowering. Nothing is shouting for attention and I like it that way. Everything seems to have an equal role of importance. The really simple illustrations are beautiful. And even thought 3 colour have been used it is very interesting and busy when you look closer. Love it.

Geoff McFetridge

Live what you love, 2006.
Patagonia.
Pencil drawing for t-shirt.
Geoff McFetridge.


I am not sure if I like the saying more than the illustrative type on this piece... I really wish the 'love' was a bit higher and maybe budged over to the right to sit nicely with the 'you'. Such a tiny preference but I would love it even more if this was the case! I also think that it could work better with a bit more emphasis on one of the words... just looks a bit plain... but then again i think the simplicity suits it... Hmmm... Saying all this, it is on my wall!

Emily Anderson

Strand.
Emily Anderson.


This typeface is so innocent looking... it works really well in the advertisement on the right, The image and text work really well together as they compliment each other.

Justin Thomas Kay

Back in Black.

One one nine.

Strawberry Switchblade.

Wamp wamp.

Royale.

Preen.















Woah. Justin Thomas Kay brings me great inspiration for his type treatments! This gave me a great idea for my speaking from experience brief. Would love to experiment with using woodblock type and then editing it afterwards with illuatrations. I love the quality and look of hand printed type instead of digital printing. It has such a different effect. I know you can recreate it in photoshop or just use a typeface that looks like wood block print but why not use the real thing? Imitation is limitation.

Eric Olson

FIG. 
Weights used - sans, serif and script. 
Eric Olson. 


The mix of content and style is really weird but I think it works strangely. I love the typefaces used, so simple but effective. They look clean and just really nice!

Lodma

Black. 
Variant of Birfurk typeface. 
Lodma.

Fiodor Sumkin

"I always try to use a hard mix of 'brutal' or filthy language and very gentle, beautiful fonts."

Yeah... I can see! Quite like this style of font but would only work in certain contexts. It looks pretty cool and eye catching and I like the mix of what we perceive as good and bad. 

Abramesque.

Fiodor Sumkin.

Ext Inked

Tattoos of 100 extinct and most endangered animals. Its not graphic design but I love the idea of this collection being out in the world walking around. I am not keen on tattos but think this is a great idea! The tatoos are there forever unlike the content and I find this really imteresting. I actually want one! I might do some research into the whole 100 and get one for myself!

Pine Marten

Short Snouted Seahorse

Bunny and the Bull

Film and DVD cover SBT Design

Where

Sean Freeman/There Is

There Is creates some wicked typographic treatments.

What
The function of some of the typefaces are that they express the word spelled out. I think they work really well and effectively as a header piece.

Fear.
Wired Magazine UK.
There Is.

Cream.
There Is.

Hot.
Book cover.
There Is.

Ingmar Spiller

Ingmar is a German Graphic Designer and Illustrator. My DC blog has been missing some type lately so when I saw this it was an instant post! I love the lines used in his work and angles used in this Runic typeface.

What
Created for White Lines magazine, I reckon this is a typeface more used for a header, rather than a whole passage of text! Would probably be too tricky to read if there was alot of it.

Runic Typeface.
Ingmar Spiller.

Blu

I love stop motion animation and street art. Blu combines both! Really imaginative stuff.

Where
This piece was made in Buenos Aires and Baden. Its absoltuely brilliant. Is is produced in the public domain and is seen on such a large scale. The location for this shoot must have been huge. I think it is brilliant how the charcters move in real life, along the streets alongside the public.


- Muto. Blu.

Lernert & Sander/We Love Our Work

Some amazing videos... some which I'm not so keen on. Lernert and Sander's ideas are really impressive, and as with Sam O'Hare's work, the quality of shoot is just magnificent and makes the work polished.

What

The two vidoes below both are imaginative and show the viewer another perspective. I couldn't help wanting to go off and do something imaginative like this, and I think that their work is encouraging to an audience and is communicating the message without words...

... I showed these videos to my family and they didn't seem all that impressed! Maybe they communicate better to people in the creative industry? 

- Chocolate Bunny. Lernert & Sander.

- CDEFGABC. MTV Europe. Lernert & Sander

Sam O'Hare

The Sandpit is incredible. Sam O'Hare has produced this with amazing quality and thought put into the context. Found from Arthur's blog.

Who
I think everyone will get this video. It makes people look like little ants and when I first saw it, at the beginning I thought it was created from a model environment, something like thomas the tank engine! The quality of shooting is brilliant, even though the subjct is so far away, there is a really short depth of field which gives an unralistic image. For me, that is what makes it so amazing. Making the real seem unreal.


- The Sandpit. Sam O'Hare

Yanni Kronenberg & Lucinda Schreiber

This animation is so mesmerising. Everything about it is amazing... apart from  I can't find a website for either of the people who made it to check out any of their other projects!

What
This music video for Autumn Story by Firekites works so well. It represents the song well and gets the imagingtion of their target audience. A real organic feel to the animation through the erasable chalk. Love it.


- Autumn Story, Firekites. Music video. Yanni Kronenberg & Lucinda Schreiber

Toben

Stunning website and work.

Where
Leaves to make an album cover for a band called The Falls is great work. I love how the team have use real materials. There is such power in software that I think alot of work is completely digitalised because that is seen as quicker, or that it gives a better effect. But what could be better than using the real thing?!

Toben Website.
Toben.

The Falls CD Cover.
Toben.

Alberto Hernández

Being Twenty caught my eye as it had great interest by using the image of a rubiks cube, but in a more complex state than normal. With it being in place of a brain it makes my think of how difficult decisions can be sometimes and the complexities of life. Alberto (Here I Go) has done some pretty ace work including Hybrid Novels... really cool stuff.


Who

"Being twenty is a major moment for everyone. Transition from childhood and adolescence to adulthood, from emotional and material dependence towards an existential autonomy in perpetual progress. Daily things take up an important space that one could not have imagined and they are mixed up with more complex ideas on life one has created while maturing their own thoughts and critical sense." - Alberto Hernández

- Being Twenty.
Chaumont Poster Festival 2009.
Alberto Hernández