“To read more about this artwork and to purchase a copy, please visit colosseotype.com
In March 2009, Suzanne (wife) and I spent several days in Rome to celebrate our 10-year anniversary. This was also a chance to observe in detail the Coliseum, which I’d already selected as the next subject in my series of letterpress posters (see cameronmoll.bigcartel.com/category/posters).
Over the course of the next 12 months, the artwork was handcrafted character by character, totaling roughly 250 hours of work from start to finish. Characters from the Goudy Trajan and Bembo Pro typefaces form the Coliseum, also known as today as Colosseo (Italian) and originally known as Amphitheatrum Flavium (Latin).
Brooklyn-based type foundry Village has some really nice type faces available, all of which are loaded with character. They also have some nice goods up for sale featuring their uniquely vibrant brand of typography.
Lettercult has released their picks for the best of 2009. There are some choice examples of typography on display as expected. Luke Lucas made the list a few times and I have to admit to always being a fan of his work. It makes me realize I need to up my game.
Neue is an online magazine pieced together through submissions. Each issue is about a different city and asks submitting designers to interpret their city through a typographic poster. The current issues is New York and the next issue is Barcelona. Something tells me Denver won’t make the list.
London based ‘typo-illustrator’ Sarah A. King has stayed busy and recently uploaded a series of fruits that she actually hand drew typography onto. It’s kind of a bizarre thing to do but the end result was really interesting and definitely not something you see everyday. Eat your words. Literally.
I posted a link to designer and typographer Sean Freeman just last week to showcase a project he recently completed with Pomme Chan. I didn’t realize however that he had just updated his website with a lot of new work. His type illustrations are top notch and just downright fun to look at which is no doubt because of his commitment to the final product.
Madrid based Sergio del Puerto, who at the start I believe was on his own has expanded Serial Cut into a larger multi-person studio. They have recently updated their portfolio with new work. Gone are the early touches of 80’s pop influence and now the efforts are more concentrated on typography and 3d. There is some very nice examples of dimensional typography in the recent updates to the body of work.
My friends at the local (local for me anyway) Boulder, CO design studio Cypher 13 have been really busy this year and continue to push their name into all the right places. They have recently released a couple of new typefaces at Hype For Type that are now available for purchase and download. One of the fonts is a geometric compressed sans-serif while the other is a play on type rendered by liquid crystal displays.
I was really pleased to stumble upon some new type arrangements in the Behance-folio of Barcelona-based design studio Vanila BCN for Nike. Super cool and candy colored work.
Since I would struggle to do justice to the description I was sent of the Karl Otto website, I thought instead that it might be easier to just pull a quote directly from the email I was sent: “The site prominently contains the “collection” what is a library of original works by Karl Otto made available through the Internet. The collection is formed as a social instrument, working with all aspects of graphic design and should be approached as a raw material that is acted upon or used as a building material to construct a variety of expressions.“
Abi Huynh is a graphic designer originally from Lethbridge, Alberta, living in Vancouver but working (temporarily) in New York City. He is a graduate from the Type and Media MA program at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (Den Haag). He also holds a B Des Communication Design from the Emily Carr University in Vancouver. There is some excellent use of typography work in his portfolio.
There is some great typographic inspiration pumping through the feed at Friends of Type. Here is an excerpt pulled from their about section:
“Erik sent me a sweet sketch. I said, “you should post that!” He was like, “where?” So there you go. 8 hours later, at about 4am EST and 1am PST, we are Friends of Type.
The site serves as a bit of a sketchbook, dialogue and archive of inspiration for all involved. You can never have too much inspiration when it comes to typography.
The Daily Drop Cap is an ongoing project by typographer and illustrator Jessica Hische. Each work day she posts a new hand-crafted decorative initial cap that you can use in your blog posts. There is some lovely typography work happening as a result of her efforts. Great idea.
A real gem of a site for inspiration, Typographicposters.com has relaunched with a minimal and beautifully functional interface that makes navigating the site good fun. You can spend a lot of time on the site and the deeper you dig the more you will be rewarded. There is some spectacular work in their archives.
Autodidakt is the portfolio of Göran Söderström who began designing typefaces in 2006. He has since had typeface families picked up by several foundries including Veer.
Romanian designer/illustrator Alex Beltechi is doing some interesting dimensional type-as-image work. Yes, it is highly digital (and I know some folks don’t like that), but it is also expertly rendered.
03/15 MEXICAN DRUG WAR The FBI has vowed to help Mexican officials in an escalating violent war with rival drug cartels that claimed the lives of 2 American employees of the consulate in the Cuidad Juarez. Both were murdered after leaving a consulate social event. On Sunday, The State Department authorized the temporary departure of dependents of U.S. government personnel from the consulates in Ciudad Juarez along with five other northern border Mexican cities.
03/12 FIVERR The website Fiverr asks, in a very broad way, what would you do for 5 dollars? Or better yet, what could you get done for 5 dollars?
03/10 COREY HAIM DIES 80’s movie star Corey Haim passed at the age of 38 at a hospital in Burbank, California. Some reports have suggested the cause of death may have been an overdose as Haim struggled with drug addiction for years following his success.
02/27 ICEBERG ADRIFT A massive iceberg has struck Antarctica dislodging a gigantic block of ice measuring 48 miles (78 kilometers) long and about 24 miles (39 kilometers) wide and holds roughly the equivalent of a fifth of the world’s annual total water usage. Holy crap.
02/27 CHILEAN EARTHQUAKE A powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake has struck Chile with a death toll so far standing at 82.
