Visual Culture

This typographic creation by Jonathan Barnbrook takes a quote from “Dubya,” that pretty much sums up his two terms in office. For a visual history of Bush’s stint at the helm you know what to do.

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Here is an amazing letterpress poster from Cameron Moll that was handcrafted character by character over the course of roughly 100 hours. Impressive.

Yulia Brodskaya’s paper-cut illustrations pretty much speak for themselves. Enjoy!

Here are a few other “paper addicts” that we have mentioned in the past:

City of Books
Paper Trail
Cut-It-Out
How Many Ways Can You Say “I Love You”?

Andre Balazs has commissioned three artists, Natas Kaupas, Eric Haze, and Jose Parla to design limited edition t-shirts that are custom made to reflect the following cities: Miami, NYC, and Los Angeles. It’s interesting to see what typographic style each artist used to evoke the culture and spirit of each city. We’re feeling NYC for it’s directness, and LA for it’s style and form. Miami is a bit off the mark in it’s execution in our opinion.

Los Angeles: Natas Kaupas – is an accomplished artist and skateboarding legend. Natas has worked with such companies as Santa Monica Airlines, Element, Vita, Etnies and his own board company, Designarium.

NYC: Eric Haze – is a graffiti artist and graphic designer from New York City and is known as one of the earliest designers of streetwear clothing. Eric has collaborated with a number of brands such as Porsche, Sony, Stussy, Mountain Dew, Nike, G-Shock, and New Balance to name a few.

Miami: Jose Parla – is a contemporary artists with graffiti roots whose work looks like a kaleidoscope of layered colors and textures. His first solo exhibition in NYC is currently open to the public at Cristina Grajales until December 20th.

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Type Trumps by Rick Banks is a game in which different typefaces are attributed numerical values. Banks has given each typeface a ‘rating’ score, a ‘legibility’ score and even a ’special power’. A few of the fonts in this game are Frankfurter, Times, Helvetica, and Johnston Underground. This novelty is available at Face37 and Magma Books.

via Swiss Legacy:

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The Graffiti Research Lab’s Evan Roth was commissioned by RED & the Global Fund. We really dig the type animation on this new track by Jay-Z, featuring Santogold.

Shout out to Jess

Estonia based design company HandMadeFont creates hand crafted fonts. We gotta admit, they’re quite an interesting bunch. We’ve included a few for your perusal.

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“The adaptation of Thomas Fuller’s phrase “A book that is shut is but a block” in the previous bookshelves installation was illustrated by my use of the book for their shape and colour, rather than content; as it is, Muller-Brockmann orange grid book is only interesting for its vermilion a4 shape.
Building up the letters also reminded me very much of typesetting, (more…)

NYC based artist John Fekner provides us with a somber glimpse into the future.

Plexifilm has spent the past two years developing a Sharpie pen that actually writes in Helvetica! Check it out HERE. Please read the fine print before purchase. It doesn’t work for everyone.

This pen is so experimental that it’s priceless… literally. You can’t buy one, but you can get one free with any Helvetica merchandise purchase (DVD, T-shirt, etc.).