Ji Lee, designer and creative director at the Google Creative Lab has come up with a book that showcases his brilliant work with logos. The overall idea is to take each letter of the alphabet and transform it into a simple logo, where word meets image. The results are brilliant, the designs are really simple and clever with a hint of humour. We've already seen how the minimalistic approach has been the huge hit in the design world, but as the minimalistic way could be used as a cop-out, brilliant designs stand out from the crowd when they make you re-think stuff, just a little twist on thi

Designer Bryan Stewart came up with Skin Type and as the name suggests, a digital print inspired font. Pretty simple, straight to the point and cleverly brilliant. Everyone has one. Any time you've written on your hand, you've created one. A unique DNA based typeface.   And as a side note, his Designer Rainbow made me chuckle. Check out his work, design with a bit of humour is definitely welcome!

The NY Public Library Labs has released a website, the Stereogranimator, where you can see and create 3D animated gifs out of old pictures from their archive. As they explain on their website, many of the 19th century pictures were taken with almost identical copies, which were meant to be seen together each side lending the other a sense of depth that a photograph alone cannot possess. The experiment is quite interesting, you can get to create your own 3D animated gifs using the many pictures in their archive and manipulating different variants to get diverse results or just take a look

Marcelo Schultz, a Brazil-based graphic designer has some impressive work with typography. His work method starts with paper and pencil before moving  on to Photoshop for the final versions. His work with colour and graffiti inspired shapes surely catches anyone's attention, and his particular devotion  to detail is what makes his work stand out in the midst of the typography-based illustration trend that's been so popular for a while.   Via Abuzeedo

Berlin based designer and typography enthusiast Ingo Italic (seriously?) has been working with experimental type for some time. His latest project features a set of movable 3D letters in Arial and Helvetica. For today’s designers, modern creative coding tools allow them to animate type in amazing ways. Each letter of Buchstabengewitter is animated in the visual programming language vvvv and can be morphed into any other glyph. That way whole words can geometrically blend into each other. This generated alphabet can be adjusted to any existing form, thus his start with the 'easier' fonts

One of the most popular trends in the graphic design and illustration world for the past time is the minimalistic look. It only takes a quick look around on tumblr or other graphic design resources websites to realize how much great work in this style there's out there. A lot of them focus on minimalistic movie posters, which is a great challenge for designers for they must be simple yet understandable. BrickHut is a designer that has some great work in this style, not only focusing in movie posters but also in other pop culture elements.     But I have to say my favourite f

Italian design studio La Tigre has some really impressive work in their portfolio. The project that caught my eye is the illustrations they designed for Formulabruta. The featured story is about Germany, and for that topic they came up with a series of illustrations that are beautiful with their simplicity and contemporary style. They used a restricted colour palette that is cleverly used with their geometric shapes and modified fraktur type. Check out these amazing illustrations and also the rest of their work.

With the upcoming release of the newest version of the MacBook Pro, designer Jules Moretti came up with a concept that will have most Apple fans dreaming of the day this will come to reality. It's a fairly simple idea, combining the sleek MacBook Pro design with touchpad features, and as himself puts it:  NO MORE physical keyboard!! And thinner. New retina displays on both. Also no more Ethernet Port, 2 Thunderbolt and 3 port for usb 3. Not to mention thinner and lighter by 25%. Here are some pictures of his brilliant concept, let's hope Apple gets the hint. One can only wish, right?

The folks at Johnson Banks in the UK were asked to come up with a project that would display the 3d modelling software developed by the college of Ravensbourne. The studio decided to take a typographic approach to the project, thus coming up with Arkitypo, a showcase of different typefaces turned into 3d animated models. The results are.. well, amazing actually. This is definitely a very interesting way to review the history of some of the iconic typographies we know today, let's hope more of this kind of work keeps coming up.   Arkitypo: letter rotations from johnson ban

The famous notebook brand Moleskine, object of desire of a lot of designers and non-designers out there, is launching a special limited line of notebooks in collaboration with Lego. This is the latest of the limited editions launched by the brand that include childhood favourites such as Pac-Man and Star Wars among others. The notebooks include lego blocks and people stickers as well as lego plates in the 4 versions. Definitely a cute acquisition for any child at heart that loves Moleskine!