Dafi Kühne is a very talented Swiss designer and letterpress printer who started his relationship with graphic design in his years studying architecture. His interests later on went towards letterpress printing, technique that has allowed him to create some brilliant pieces of typographic posters. His work style involves mixing digital resources with hands-on methodology, a combination that he explains as the following: “I use both tools—digital and analog—through the whole design and production process. If I want to draw a line straight, I use the computer. If I want to draw a line tr

Evelin Kasikov is a London based graphic designer that has taken her print design work to another level. In her school years she developed a new graphic construction based on the CMYK printing process but applying it into embroidery. Following the same principle, all her pieces are made out of overlapped dots of each 'ink' that construct the rest of the colors as the CMYK prints do. The patterns constructed by each thread follow a certain direction that when combined with the others create a bigger spectrum of colors. It's a beautiful example of how things that we take for granted,

Typophile is a community of type enthusiasts that covers everything on the topic. They've produced a series of Typophile Film Festivals, and although this opening title is a couple years old (it was released in 2009) it won't stop being amazing. It was made by a group of BYU students and faculty members, creating a fun video that appeals to all senses. It's really fun to watch, and is quite amazing to think that it was completely made without any computer generated graphics, only stop motion. These opening titles are a clear result of pure type love, each section has been carefully

Helvetica is probably the most used font in the recent times, making it a symbol of clean-modern-minimalistic design. But do we know anything about its origins (besides of being a swiss font)? Well, Helvetica wouldn't have seen the light of day if it weren't for its precursor Neue Haas Grotesk. But before that a bit of context: in Germany in the 19th century a new family of typefaces was born: it was called Grotesk. This style of type made a huge change in the typography world, as it first introduced a sans serif font, firstly an all capital letters sans serif in 1816 and later on a lower case

Henry Hargreaves is a Brooklyn based artist and photographer that has some really creative work under his arm. His philosophy is based on a twist of 'classic' subjects that come out as either provocative or just plain entertaining. He has so many great pieces in his portfolio that I just had to go for one that meat and type lovers (I wonder if these 2 go hand by hand?) can actually be excited about: a typeface made out of bacon! I specially like the decision of a fraktur font as a base, giving the overall look a classic touch. Can someone get on the idea of a type-centered breakfast place?

If you like the work of M. C. Escher, then FRUSTRO might be right up in your alley! Martzi Hegedűs is a hungarian designer that has a soft spot for the special geometry of Escher, specially the iconic Penrose triangle (also known as the impossible triangle) on which he based his typographic work. So how come can a typography become impossible? Taking Escher's geometric principles as a base, he started drawing the mind-bending letters and keeping them legible. The process is very interesting, from two base volumetric letters he creates a combined version according to the infinite geo

We've already seen the newest trend in logo design: permutations. But how would that translate into type? Berlin based designer Jacopo Severitano has come up with what would be the lovechild of this two concepts, it's called ZWEI Plus. Basically, he proposes that working on a base grid you can do all the changes you want to create different letterings. The base grid consists of a simple square-dot combination and from then on the possibilities are endless. It's curious how many variations one can create out of this, and how different can the letters be from one another. One can also notice th

We've already featured a remarkable amount of typographic posts in the past weeks but I think there's not enough appreciation in the world for great type design work. This time I'd like to refer to the work involving type and art, a mix that results in amazing work. Thanks to the behance network I've encountered this 2 examples that are completely brilliant. The first one is called 'B Type' and it's basically a serif type that's been overlapped with abstract and colourful painted squares to be cut out. A pretty basic idea but in the end it looks pretty cool: The next project I'd

Gary Nicholson is a graphic designer that specializes in work with type. His series of typographic jokes are really funny (at least for the dorky designers out there) and despite being fairly minimalistic, there are a few details that really complete the overall design. I think these are worth to showcase and any other funny puns anyone?

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!