I was away on an “old” Finnish summer house a couple of weeks ago for Juhannus, during that time I came across some brilliant old books from the 1900′s and around that era or ealier. I love variety of typographic ornament found on those books, the attention to details and the perfect clean layouts. Examples below go through [...]
Posted on: 8 July 2011, 12:48
Posted in: design inspiration, print design, printing process/finishing, typography, Uncategorized Tags: book, finland, historical, illustration, layout, lettering, ornament, print design, printing process/finishing, typography Leave a comment
Finally received my business card today for colymba. I am really happy with the result and Typoretum has done a great job with the letterpress printing. The Gmund Mohair stock did fantastic with the black on black letterpess with really sharp edges. The reverse on Gmund Color System 43 Color gives it a nice contrast. [...]
Posted on: 7 April 2011, 19:31
Posted in: print design, printing process/finishing, typography Tags: business card, Gmund, letterpress, Mohair, paper, print design, printing process/finishing, Typoretum Leave a comment
Found this pretty interesting book a couple of months back while travelling in France. Titled Detail in Typography (Le Détail en Typography), this book deals with ‘everything’ micro-typography and working with the column of text, enhancing its readability and legibility, all in a very approachable and concise manner. This great edition – first published in [...]
Posted on: 25 August 2010, 0:16
Posted in: Books, print design, research/study, Shopping, typography Tags: book, Jost Hochuli, micro-typography, print design, Robert Bringhurst, typography Leave a comment
I am a big fan of printing processes and experimenting with them, I’ve done research on their associated psychological response and I believe each process should be chosen in response to the brief. With the same concept, Underware, the design collective author of fabulous typefaces, managed to ‘manufacture’ blood offset ink. For the sampler of [...]
Posted on: 12 June 2010, 20:36
Posted in: design inspiration, printing process/finishing, typography Tags: blood ink, print design, printing process/finishing, techniques, type foundry, Underware Leave a comment
I have heard about it the first time in a FontShop newsletter I think, and now came across a site actually using it. Typekit lets you use designer typeface online on your website, so you don’t have to stick to the classics Georgia or Verdana and others anymore! It uses Javascript to substitute the fonts [...]
Posted on: 9 March 2010, 22:58
Posted in: design inspiration, typography Tags: type foundry, Typekit, typography, web design Leave a comment
Just came back from holiday in Rome, and apart from the many pizza, pasta, wine and ice cream; I managed to observe some nice hand crafted typography and lettering work on different materials and from (mostly) old and more recent eras. Loved the variety, in texture, face, techniques… from very carefully hand carved text in [...]
Posted on: 28 October 2009, 1:40
Posted in: design inspiration, typography Tags: ancient, hand crafted, lettering, material, Rome, techniques, texture, typography Leave a comment