While I’m on the subject of cakes, I came across this Threadless Cake baking competition (now ended). Basically you had to re-create a Threadless t-shirt as a cake, my favourite was this You Are The Best cake by Leslie Evans. Look at the all the bloody detail on that lettering?! Everyone seems to be using ‘fondant’ though? Not nearly as tastey as marzipan, yum yum, looks like it might be a bit more sturdy to work with though.
Category Archives: Typography
Hand Lettering by Letman
I‘ve just been sent this guys site as reference for a project and was blown away by his work. Also mesmerised by watching him working in this video.
Seb’s Tits & Arse
I‘ve blogged about the typographic skills of Seb Lester before, but I think he deserves another post for this excursion from his usual precise clean vector lines, to this more old school tits & arse action ;)
He’s got his first solo show coming up on the 6th August (on for a month) at the Electrik Sheep Gallery in Newcastle. I’m sure his limited edition prints will be selling fast, so if you live nearby, you should go check it out.
Phaeton Typeface
I‘m a massive fan of Kevin Cornell’s illustration work, so was delighted today when I saw he’s made his first font – Phaeton. Like most of his stuff it’s straight out of the Victorian era, oozing with charm & character, and chock-full of different ligatures & vignettes. You can get it for £35 from Veer.
He was helped out by typographer Randy Jones, who’s made a similar hand-drawn type – Olduvai. Sadly my budget didn’t quite stretch to that.. but it looks very nice.
Typeface drawn with a car?!
Wow this is pretty good, a couple of typographers and a stunt car driver make a font with a Toyota iQ. You can download the font they created here. Not entirely sure the type of people that this ad would appeal to – designers & boy racers, would be likely to buy an iQ.. but impressive bit of work none the less.
Via: Cpluv.
Organic Type
Also on the cut & paste theme is this beautiful type treatment of the word Organic by Neuarmy. I love those old botanical illustrations, and they’ve been put to fine use here.
Tofdru
Stumbled across the portfolio of Tofdru on Cargo today, it made my day, no shit made my year, this guys work is awesome. I didn’t think I’d see the day when a cut & paste collage artist would top Terry Gilliam, but I think he has. Can’t find out much about him other than he must own crap load of vintage magazines, I suspect he’s French, but his info page is in Japanese?
Update: Yeah he’s probably French, my Japanese friend says he must have used translation software, grammer is all over the place and it doesn’t make sense…
Also here’s his Flickr.
Yay, Fuzzy Felt Typeface!
This brings back memories :) Available as a FREE 24 glyph Photoshop font, made by the nice chaps at Font Soup.
Gridplane
I was searching the web for infographic inspiration yesterday and stumbled across the work of JD Hooge on his site Gridplane. All his work is top notch, but I was particularly taken by his Data Visualisation project for Google. It’s just designs, no link to a working product, but hopefully Google will release to soon, looks great.
As soon as I saw his name, the first thing that came to mind was a pixel font I used to like back in the day – Hooge. Had a quick check and I reckon it was indeed named after him, as it seem Hooge and the maker, Craig Kroeger founded a studio together.
LetterCult – Custom Letters
Holy shit, LetterCult have posted probably the most inspiring post(s) I’ve seen in a long while – Part 1 & Part 2. Featuring the best Custom Letters (built from scratch, not customised) of 2009. Been spending too much time today searching out the different people’s sites (annoyingly they don’t provide links), wait a sec, here’s a page with the links (cheers Francine).
There’s some familiar faces that I’ve blogged about before, so I’ll highlight a few favourites by people new to me:
Esther Aarts:
Esther’s got a nice freehand retro style, her Illustrations are great too, might do a seperate post about them.
Jessica Hische:
I’ve actually seen Jessica’s stuff before but never got round to posting it, lovely playful type treatments abound. Check out her blog here and she’s just released her first typeface here.
Richard Perez:
This guys works is fucking awesome, a mix of illustration, design and typography and a real mix of different styles. The image at the top of this post is by Richard too.
Linzie Hunter:
Her Spam Project cracks me up, plenty more great work where that came from too.
Via: Yewknee.