Nice song, nice video, handmade setting… great! Here the Making Of

The history of beer, beautifully illustrated and packed with great typography and colors. See the full infographic here.

Great stuff flew on my desk last week: H-57, a Milano-based design studio, defined and designed their own creative rules. The outcome is an amazing poster, full of great typography, that I definitly will order, as soon it is available for sale. See more…

Absolutly worth seeing: ‘Hot Type – Hand and Work’ by Lukas Loss.

I bought a great App today: FontBook. It contains over 110 type foundries and features over 620,000 typeface specimens. The fonts are sorted by name, style category, typographical subclassification, designer name, foundry name, year of publication or by similarity of design. For the ‘how to?’, ‘what else can I do?’ and ‘how will it look like?’ watch the video below.

By FontShop International

Beautiful artwork by Cameron Moll. The Roman Colosseum made with type. Don’t miss to get one of the handsigned poster.

Video by gestalten tv

gestalten tv presents a new video. This time the focus is on Ken Barber type designer at House Industries. On his visit to Berlin, Barber gave an interview to gestalten tv about the significance of drawing when desining fonts, the importance of specialization and well-founded knowledge as a support in the design process. Gestalten about Ken Barber:

“Ken Barber is a letterer, type designer, and type director at design studio and type foundry House Industries. He is also a partner of Photo-Lettering, Inc., an online lettering-vending service. As such, Ken is particularly interested in the roles that hand-lettering and typography play in contemporary graphic design. His work is featured in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and has been honored by the New York Type Directors Club. Ken was included among 40 artists recognized for making notable contributions to typeface design in “Schrift in Form,” an exhibition at the Klingspor-Museum. In addition to teaching at Maryland Institute College of Art and the University of Delaware, he regularly lectures internationally on the subjects of lettering and typography. Ken also manages typeandlettering.com, an online resource for students and attendees of his frequent workshops.“

Typography as a mosaic. A new picture by Jean Francois Porchez who has already inspired us with his Architecture-Photo. A very nice photo. Thank you!

Here’s an amazing and very inspiring video produced by gestalten tv. Introducing one of the experts in the business: Typographer and graphic designer Erik Spiekermann talks about design processes, the visual language, the analogy of music and typophraghy and the necessity of travelling.

Fall is here. The days are getting shorter, the wind is cold and the temperature is getting frosty. Just perfect to stay home, cuddle up on the sofa and grab a good book to read. Here’s my recommendation: Arabesque 2. It was published this year in September by Die Gestalten. The two editors Ben Wittner and Sascha Thoma take you to the arabic and persian world. Impressively they show us how cultural and modern influences mix into its own new style.

Die Gestalten Verlag: “Arabesque 2 is a collection of recent cutting-edge work by young designers and activists from the Arab world and Iran. The examples of typography, graphic design, logos, editorial design, and illustration presented here chart a compelling course between local visual convention and a modern international style that is emblematic of the increasing cultural emancipation of the entire Middle East. The book’s rich selection of groundbreaking visuals is supplemented by texts and interviews that describe the environments in which the featured designers and artists work. Arabesque 2 also includes a preface by John Martin, co-founder of Art Dubai, and a CD-ROM with 4 typefaces related to its themes.”