Sign Painter Jeff Canham makes these seaside themed typographic art pieces that make me smile, good work.

Huge archive of typeworkshops held in various academies or conferences worldwide, with tonnes of detail and work in progress. Love the peice above.

Awesome tees from You are so last year, shame you can only buy the shirt of the month… I’d love to pick up the 2 beauties above :( Will have to keep my eye on them for fresh stuff.

Via TypeNeu.

The design agency bunch have invited a load of designers to re-interpret their logo, always fascinating to see how different people approach the same brief, above are some of my favs. Visit Made in Bunch to see the rest or upload your own. Cheers for the link Dom.

Via CR Blog.

I was just reading on Asi’s blog his top 10 things of 2007, thought I’d have a go too, so here is my Off the Top of My Mead, Favourite Things of 2007.

1. Music

Of Montreal, album: Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? I first came across Of Montreal through their brilliant music video of the song Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games by Kangaroo Alliance. Really into their catchy bass lines & surreal lyrics.

2. Film

Planet Terror by Robert Rodriguez. Non stop zombie blood bath - Girls, guns, guts, this movies got it all - loved every minute of it. Shame Tarantino’s Death Proof wasn’t as top notch (although the ending was genius).

3. Blog

Nad Shot. I love blogs or sites that are obsessively devoted to one obscure thing, well Nad Shot tops the ranks for me. It’s a blog showcasing frames from comics where a character is getting whacked in the nuts. Genius.

4. Party/Fancy dress

There’s been a few good do’s this year, but I think my favourite was back in the begining of the year for my 3oth birthday when we went on a protest pub crawl through london. More info here, and some pictures of the day here. It had everything, all day drinking, armed police trying to arrest us, fancy dress, all my friends and a banging warehouse party at the end to polish it off. Ah happy days :)

5. Stuff to buy

My top purchase this year was my Nike Vintage Waffle Racers in Classic Green. In my opinion, the perfect trainer and I love them the bits. More info on the Nike Vintage site.

6. T-Shirt

I love t-shirts, but the one I love above all others is my sorry. t-shirt from Glarkware. It’s so simple, but always get comments from random people, and you can’t fault Cooper Black as the classic t-shirt font.

7. Designer

So hard to pick your favourite, but I think I’d have to go for Scott Hansen, portfolio | blog. I’ve been an admirer of his work for a while, it just so beautifully detailed and rich.

8. Illustrator

Alex Trouchut, I suppose you could say his work is typography, but I’m in awe of his clean lines and precision work, all of it top notch. Check out his portfolio >

9. Person

Sachi. I was going to pick my girlfriend Nicky, but she doesn’t have a site yet that I can link to… So instead (and perhaps more rightly so) I’m going to pick Sachiko Munakata. I’ve only known Sachi for 3 years, but we’ve been house mates all that time and she really is a pleasure to live with. I’ve met a few people throughout my life who constantly amaze me and I never tire of, Sachi’s definitely one of them. (Sachi you need to start posting to your blog though!)

10. Website

It’s got to be FFFFOUND. The site is just so crammed full of good things to look at, it’s hard to go a day without visiting it. Find some good looking things now > (if anyone has a spare invite, could you send it my way?)

Exljbris is the library of Jos Buivenga’s free fonts. They are a lot better than the usual free font tosh, I particularly like Fertigo.

These super fat, no negatives space fonts are all over the place at the moment. House of Burvo are knocking out some of the fattest examples I’ve seen. Their portfolio is shit hot too.

I wish I could do this with my penis by Mootsie (although it looks like the hand of Alex Trochut to me?) is one of the finalists of the Computerlove T-shirt Design Contest 2007. The best one in my opinion, I’d wear it.

Nice fat 3D lettering action from the Spanish design studio Serial Cut. Above is their illustration of the 11 o’clock show for the Channel 4 thank you book.

Via Design is Kinky.

Bloody hell wow, Alex Trochut’s work is brilliant, a master class in illustration and typography. Totally spoilt for choice picking some screen grabs of his work, make sure to visit his site because it’s a mere drop in the ocean. Read more about this talented Spanish designer in the interview on Speak Up.

Via Drawn!

Beautiful experimental calligraphy from Yomar Augusto. He also makes an amazing embroider t-shirt.

Dom points me in the general direction of some fine typographic work by Craig Ward.

This takes me back… The Falcon pictured is the remote control car I had as a kid. Loads of high res scans of those old decals to be found at CarType.

QBN Typecase flickr set by Stephen Coles is pretty damn good. Lots of great fonts and info. My favs are; Kursivschrift, Mayo, Madisonian, Stila and Soda Script.

Ah some good looking graphic niceness to take in over at Tauba Auerbach’s site.

Via The Style Press.