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With only 10’000 people still speaking the Cherokee language, it is becoming urgent for them to save one of the few remains of what was once a great nation. There are no magic methods to save a language, but a graphic designer, Mark Jamra, is bringing his own contribution to the table: a modern Cherokee […]
In case you didn’t see it yet, MyFonts has been offering an amazing font bundle on its site during the past week. Working with top type foundries, the Foundation Collection can be used to create a foundation for your type library. At only $49, this is a chance you shouldn’t miss. It’s only for sale […]
Nike commissionned Kevin Cantrell to do a custom design for a baseball bat, and I must say they probably couldn’t have found a better designer for this. If you appreciate this project, you will probably love most of the designer’s work, just check out his portfolio.
If you don’t visit or are not subscribed to our sister blog, Typography Daily, you just missed a major announcement in the world of type: the launch of the Eric Gill Series. Like Helvetica for Switzerland, Gill Sans is a typeface that is tightly attached to the history of a country, one of the many […]
The best fonts on the market, like Helvetica or Frutiger, come with a price, a price that’s hard to pay for some freelance designers. Luckily, nowadays plenty of talented designers create and publish free fonts that can help you diversify your designs without getting a penny out of your pocket. 1. Its Holiday Free for […]
For the Offf Moscow design conference, Universal Everything designed an awesome and experimental typographic animation. With varying shapes and textures, but always with minimal use of color, the designers created beautiful moving type that appears and disappears almost organically. You can view more work by this talented studio on their website.
Poker is cool. It’s an exciting game where you get to bluff and have fun with friends. For most people, poker also goes better with whisky and cigars. For me, for some reason, whisky and cigars are associated with typography. I mean… just look at the whisky labels and you will know it’s made for […]
If you are familiar with Fabriano Boutique, you know that the products they sell rarely disappoint. Nearly everything they sell is well-designed for a good reason, they work with top-notch designers. They did it again with their new product, a set of lovely typographic notebooks. These six notebooks were designed around the theme of typography […]
Franz Hoffman’s first Kickstarter project is already a big success. There is a good reason for that, his project will solve a problem graphic designers have faced for years: the technicalities of creating fonts are hard. Fontself makes it possible to create fonts directly from Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator. Fontself works as an extension […]
Based in Nottingham, UK, British designer Lex Wilson creates awesome typographic drawings in his free time. With a clever use of perspective and 3D effects, he plays with the words and their meaning. Each of his drawing really embodies the ideas expressed by the word, no doubt Wilson would make an excellent logo designer. Sometimes […]
Designing by hand requires some time and skills that not all modern graphic designers have. To create designs with a handmade look-and-feel despite this, you can use some great resources like the following chalk fonts. 1. Chalk Hand Lettering A handwriting font that emulates the vintage style chalkboard signs lettering. You can also use it […]
Every week, we’ll give you an overview of the best deals for designers, make sure you don’t miss any by subscribing to our deals feed. You can also follow the recently launched website Type Deals if you are looking for free fonts or font deals. TREND ROUGH Font Family Tapping into the latest popular trends, the Trend Font […]
AIGA (the professional association for design) recently invited Barcelona-based graphic designer Rafa Goicoechea to create five posters based on famous design quotes. This is part of the Quoted project by AIGA, and Goicoechea did a great job putting quotes of Da Vinci or Ellen Lupton on paper. Playing with letters and isometric perspective effects, the designer […]
Here we go, beautiful letters and typefaces for your inspiration. No long introduction needed for that. 1. Pardon my French Spectacular type design made of plants and moss. This wall art is just amazing and will impress anyone, it is enhanced with some backlights. A design by Vegetal Identity. 2. Arabic Square Logo As Westerners, […]
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