Herb Lubalin’s typography looks clichéd and a bit played out if you are catching it right now, until you realize that most of the designers riffing on his letters were born after he died. Lubalin’s typography isn’t subtle. That isn’t to say it isn’t well balanced or poorly kerned (it is). It’s more that it is loud, fearless, and clever in ways type hasn’t been before or since. His particular cues are popping up more and more lately in “cutting-edge” graphic design. Avant-garde indeed.

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The Lost Type Co-Op distributes beautiful fonts from designers all over the world. You can name your own price (there’s even the option to pay $0, if you feel so inclined) and 100 percent of what you pay goes straight to the starving typographer who created the font.

I kept returning to Janine Wareham’s work for its tactile and impactful quality. Her typographic work conveys an urgency and boldness. This, combined with her use of colour and free-hand style rendering, will give your eyes a visual feast to devour again and again.

Sebastián Gavary is one of my favourite young Uruguayan designers. Music is always part of his designs, either as topics or in the harmony of the colours. As a typographic geek, the form and shape of words in his works is always meticulously checked.

Find your safe place, listen and relax, let yourself get carried away, follow the warm voice of Mr Waits. No! That’s not an autogenic training session. It’s just a good way to blend arts together: poetry, music and kinetic typography.

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Fotolia is the number one royalty free stock photo agency from Europe. I recently bumped into their print ads that came out towards the end of the July, and which are hysterical.

Yes, they’re a bit sarcastic and sassy, but with the run on sentence dragging you in along with the tight typography forcing you do get close to it ti read it, I think the simplicity and thought behind it is just great.

Who said typefaces had to be static? Whoever it was certainly didn’t tell Hussain Almossawi from the Skyrill Design studio who created this incredible Fluid Type in which each character in the set has both a static and an exploding animation version. We love.

I’m not sure this is a sustainable idea, but it’s lovely all the same. Submit your favourite word or phrase to the artists at The Phraseology Project and they’ll transform them into a beautiful piece of typography for you to show off.

Robert Montgomery is a London-based artist, or maybe a poet, who hijacks billboards, empty ad spaces on the streets and backlit metro lights with his words of wisdoms. Instead of illustrations, he uses typography to get his message across, which is pretty cool because people actually would stop and read.

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Water Logo 2009 was an installation in an exhibition called Tokyo Fiber Sensewear, where artworks and concepts based on newly created artificial fiber were featured. The artist behind it experimented with flowing water droplets on resistent fiber. It’s quite spectacular to look at and a really lovely way to play with typography.

In Baile Átha Cliath, we live amongst typography. It influences and informs our every day lives in Dublin, Ireland. This typography-led mini-film was directed and shot in and around central Dublin on February 25.

I spent most Saturdays in my childhood at Chinese school. I hated it with every fiber of my being. I hated it so much I once drew a picture that said ‘I HATE SATURDAYS’ and all the letters were creepy monsters. Michiel van der Born’s work reminds me of that drawing I did.

I am admittably not the biggest bicycle fan in the universe, but I really love typography in all shapes and forms. These “name-frame bikes” are a creation of Juri Zaech, a Swiss Art Director currently living and working in Paris. I wonder, since he’s already designed a ‘Nina’ model, how much it would take to create a ‘Nini’ model for me. Hmmm.

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The morbid streak that runs through Manchester-based graphic designer and illustrator Petros Varnava’s work appeals to the clownsuit-wearing sociopath in me. I like his fingerprint font.

Answer four simple questions to the ‘psychotherapist’ in the chair and find out what font type matches perfectly your personality. This is an entertaining animated quiz, with interesting background information on each respective font. A must for typography fans.

It’s difficult to miss Barbara Kruger’s Plenty installation at New York’s Guild Hall. The entire museum space has been painted both inside and out with Kruger’s gigantic sans serif white type on shiny black backdrops and juxtaposed photography until October 11. The concept artist’s work explores pertinent themes of youth, consumerism, the media and desire.

This beautiful Marbling Typeface was created by Tiana Vasiljev after a visit to a museum in South Vietnam: ‘each character was created, shaped and photographed individually to create these abstract fonts. The project involved creating and capturing the organic forms that come naturally with the marbling process. All 26 letters of the alphabet were created in upper-case letters’.

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Made from redundant street banners, leather jackets and couches destined for the garbage dump, creative group Poketo and South Korea’s eco-friendly non-profit shopEco Party have re-purposed these eco-friendly materials into an assortment of durable, one-of-a-kind tote bags in celebration of Earth Day. Flourishing with lovely typography and colourful splatters, these adorable totes are anything but garden-variety and will happily transport your belongings around town in style.

Herb Lubalin’s influence as a graphic designer is undeniable, and now his name graces the side of the new building at Cooper Union. The inaugural exhibit of the Lubalin Center just opened with the beautiful Mike Essl-curated show, Lubalin Now. I’ve been noticing recently that design exhibitions have been blowing away more traditional fine art shows and this one is no exception. It’s quite exciting to see the influence this man has had on many of today’s young top designers. Standouts for me were the pieces by Deanne Cheuk, Alex Trochut, Justin Thomas Kay and Rick Valicenti. The show continues until Dec 8.

István Szugyiczky is a Hungarian graphic designer living in Barcelona, creating beautiful and adventurous illustrated typography, posters, and identities.