The Marbling Typeface

Zolton Contributor

By Zolton in New Illustration on Friday 20 August 2010

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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Write a message in flowers

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By Zolton in Cool Websites on Wednesday 18 August 2010

Ok, so faced with the option of scrawling anything in beautiful flower type on the blank canvas that the Flower Power website presents, we went for something simple. Creative, huh? No. But this website sure is. Imagination required.

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Faile Temple

Greta Hoffman Reader Find

By Greta Hoffman in Cool Travel on Monday 9 August 2010

Disguised in the streets of Lisbon as just another old relic lies the latest work from Faile, the Brooklyn based street art collective. The newly constructed Faile Temple transforms modern typography, stencils and print into mosaics, carvings, and ruin in one of the largest modern art projects ever to take place in Portugal. Bringing together [...]

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Music Philosophy

Lamia Larkin Reader Find

By Lamia Larkin in Cool Websites on Tuesday 3 August 2010

Music Philosophy describes itself as ‘a weekly graphic-typographic interpretation of philosophical song quotes’. I like to describe it as the coolest way to enjoy songs weekly without having to listen to them.

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To Dry For

The Urban Grocer Contributor

By The Urban Grocer in New Products on Thursday 8 July 2010

To Dry For is a boutique collection of designer and artist-commissioned tea towels that are bound to brighten up any drying journey, from dishes to spills to all things in between. These colorful towels sport bold patterns, intricate designs, and impressive typography that range from cheeky to clever to beautiful. Managed by a husband and [...]

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The Big Caption

Andy Reader Find

By Andy in Cool Websites on Thursday 3 June 2010

The Big Picture’s photo essays are some of the best around: insightful, timely and often confronting in the way great photo essays are. Complementing The Big Picture is The Big Caption, a parody site ‘wherein jokes and statements are made using typography’. Sometimes insightful and always snarky, it pairs poignant photography with blunt observations using a thread of hostility.

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Edward Rondthaler

Tes One Reader Find

By Tes One in New Design on Friday 21 May 2010

Unfortunately, I only became familiar with Edward Rondthaler after his passing last year, but his incredible contributions to typography (one of the founding members of the International Typeface Corporation) and crusade to fight illiteracy through spelling reform of the English language will continue to live on. House Industries shot a video of Rondthaler giving a [...]

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Mustache fonts

Zolton Contributor

By Zolton in New Design on Wednesday 5 May 2010

With so many pressing issues out there — such as bomb scares in Times Square amidst the remnants of a global recession — it’s good to see someone has leapt on the most important of them all: what font is your mustache? Some of us in the office are rocking Hoefler’s, but it should be [...]

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Dogs as typefaces

Kira Heuer Reader Find

By Kira Heuer in New Design on Monday 12 April 2010

Dogs have finally graduated from unwilling fashion victims. You know the ones: strolling the streets with their pink booties, rhinestone collars and ever-popular powder blue t shirts. Now they can stand as distinguished animals, joining the linguistic world and representing a font type. Eurostyle is my favorite. Woof!

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Rodney White

Kareem Black Reader Find

By Kareem Black in New Design on Wednesday 7 April 2010

I met Rodney White a few years ago and I’ve always been amazed by his skill and clarity of vision. He is sort of an old soul. You get that when you speak to him. I sense, also, that when I look at his work, it’s from a different time. White makes work that he [...]

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Luke Lucas

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By Zolton in New Design on Wednesday 3 March 2010

Some fun illustrative typography from Australian-based creative designer Luke Lucas. Check out more Australian design at our sister website, The Colour

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Nikki Farquharson

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By Zolton in New Illustration on Tuesday 9 February 2010

Working out of London, fashion illustrator Nikki Farquharson is the hottest new talent on the scene, as exemplified by her edgy work which embraces colour, pattern and typography.

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Kareem Rizk’s birds

Michelle Wilding Reader Find

By Michelle Wilding in New Illustration on Wednesday 20 January 2010

Melbourne-based collage artist Kareem Risk’s series of birds are a wonderful example of great colour combined with a fascinating subject and effective typography. Zazzle now features post-card versions of the prints. Get mailing, kids.

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Typographic month in NYC

Deanne Cheuk Reader Find

By Deanne Cheuk in New Events on Tuesday 3 November 2009

November is shaping up to be Typographic month in New York. On November 5 there’s the official opening of Lubalin Now — the inaugural exhibition at the newly re-located Herb Lubalin Study Center at the Cooper Art Union, featuring beautiful typography from the likes of Alex Trochut, Huntergatherer and Non-Format [featured above].

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Raymond Biesinger

Ilana Kohn Reader Find

By Ilana Kohn in New Design on Friday 10 July 2009

Pure graphic simplicity is how Canadian illustrator Raymond Biesinger swings. Employing various textures, typography and found elements throughout his heavily conceptual creations, Beisinger presents a wonderfully consistent body of work.

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