Eine In San Francisco
Recently, UK artist, Eine made his way to San Francisco for a solo exhibition at White Walls Gallery. During his stay in the city, he covered the streets with his type murals and sayings. Check out what he had to say about his come up, and his time in SF.
Rosario Florio
Rosario Florio‘s work has a kind of dry fun to it, that I find interesting. It fits into a very form based, design-thinking that I’ve grown increasingly fond of over the years. I’ve sort of unintentionally learned to embrace it within my own work, without any clear indication of why… Regardless, Rosario’s collection of projects possess a certain quality, that I’ve come to thoroughly enjoy, in Design, as of late; specifically her FWD Grotesk typeface.
Andre Beato
An always fantastic selection of clean and precisely crafted type treatments and illustrations from André Beato.
Brent Couchman for Friends of Type
Our hard working friend, Brent Couchman — just getting settled in San Francisco — has been cranking out some pretty fantastic goodies, lately. Take a peek at a piece he just did for Friends of Type.
With the post on Friends of Type.
“Something I try to keep in mind when the solutions just don’t seem to be coming. Also a nod to Mary Blair, Rolly Crump’s Tower of the Four Winds and the Eames Do Nothing machine.”
- Brent
Gianmarco Magnani
Gianmarco Magnani‘s work could be more easily defined as design, than illustration. His tight use of color and white space coupled with a keen eye for typography, give his prints a certain level of intelligence that I enjoy quite a bit.
Young Jerks
Young Jerks is the portfolio of Brooklyn designer/illustrator, Dan Cassaro. His playful, but smart collection of projects is filled with custom typography, illustration and hand printed materials; all of which, make for a very honest and refreshing body of work.
Make sure to check out Dan’s Tumblr for extra goodies and dont’ forget to follow Young Jerks on Twitter for all sorts of other stuff.
Love Letter to Syracuse
A short film cataloging Steve Powers‘ latest art installation entitled “Love Letter to Syracuse,” which speaks to the power of public space and ultimately, the effect it can have on a community.
Directed By: Faythe Levine & Samuel Macon
Featuring: Shoham Arad & Chris McCray of COLAB, Maarten Jacobs
Jon Contino
Although I’ve always appreciated it, hand drawn type hasn’t always been a huge inspiration. I’m definitely more of a Swiss-minded designer—tight grids, clean lines and sharp typography. Jon Contino‘s work on the other hand, is obviously none of those, and in a short time, has become a pretty big influence on my growing interest with hand drawn type and lettering. His work spans an entire spectrum, but focuses heavily on a sort of Sailor Jerry aesthetic as well as the traditional hand drawn type of the early 20th century, both of which have an extremely unique and nostalgic appeal that are hard to ignore.
Morning Breath
Although it might not show in my work, Morning Breath has always been a huge inspiration. They’ve had me since my first years of school and helped define my personal sense of design through their typography laden compositions, and the low-brow subject material often used in their projects. Their work represents something raw and human that, before seeing anything like it, was something I felt lacked in the creative field I planned to go into. The idea of doing commercial work that didn’t look commercial in any way and collaborating with the types of clients they were — skateboards companies and bands — wasn’t something I could have ever learned in school and was a huge motivational element for me.
TELEPHONEME : MK12
Telephoneme is a hybrid live-action / animated piece created by MK12 in collaboration with Swedish Secrets Productions. Inspired by 1960s educational films and taking cues from one in particular The Alphabet Conspiracy. MK12′s Telephoneme uses a slightly darker remixed version of the movie’s original soundtrack as the underlying foundation for the entire animated piece. Production notes and a free type face or two are all available for those willing to do a little digging.
Luis Boy
Luis Vicente Hernandez has an experimental and refreshing body of work full of typographically rich projects in a variety of mediums. Bold colorways and vector heavy pieces are a common element in his work. Although the majority of his work isn’t very complex in nature, it surely represents a sense of adventure that I miss seeing in so many other portfolios nowadays.
Volume One
Great selection of multidisciplinary work from Brooklyn’s Volume One. Volume One was founded by Matt Owens, and is one part of the NYC super crew, Athletics.
The type pieces above are from the Super Street Fighter IV campaign. Part of the overarching release for the game included special spots and ads designed by 123KLAN, Cody Hudson, Dalek, Grotesk and Futura.
View pics of the Super Street Fighter IV campaign on Living Proof.
PRESSED : An Exhibition of Letterpress Printed Ephemera
Above our a few snapshots I was able to sneak from within the PRESSED : Exhibition of Letterpress Printed Ephemera storefront located in the Denver Pavilions. The store is an extension of the show that took place in June at the Denver Art Museum and gives all that make their way through an opportunity to view some of the prints from the Hatch Show Print, Amos Paul Kennedy Jr, the Hamilton 10th Anniversary Show, Yee-Haw Industries, and a curated selection of other posters submitted to the exhibit. There are a handful of posters available for purchase mixed in with others for display, inquire with staff for any questions between the two.
PRESSED is slated to fill space in the Denver Pavilions through July 4th, when the posters will be taken down, packed, and prepped to hit the road as part of an ongoing traveling exhibit.
PRESSED : 2nd Floor : Denver Pavilions 500 16th St. Denver, CO 80202
PRESSED on Kickstarter : MATTER on Twitter
Type Inspiration
I’ve been thinking about typography a lot more than I generally do. A lot of it probably stems from my supreme hatred of the font browser options there are for designers and the lack of legitimate resources on fonts and classifications. I’m sure there are plenty of arguing points against that statement, but it’s got me to a point where I’ve become slightly obsessed with organization of these resources through my various online accounts and scribbled in notes strewn all over the place. Point being, I feel like it’s part of my goal as an internet crazed angry person, to do a better job at sharing some of those resources (the few there are) that have taken a step towards organizing bits of information —in this case, typography.
Some of my recent favorites for type inspiration as well as film related resources have been Annayas and Hammer Horror Posters for obvious reasons (I hope). I’ve always been a giant fan of cinema in it’s many forms and regarded it as one of most under appreciated art forms of all.
Enjoy.
C13 LCD Font on YWFT
Cypher13 just announced the release of a new font for sale on the You Work For Them site. Word has it that there may be a few more exemplary releases on the horizon from these Boulder lads. Stay tuned for more.
Interviews
Events
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Sandi Calistro at Super Ordinary
- Matter : 12th Annual Printsale & Party
- Beginning Before : Ray Young Chu