I’ve always been a fan of cut leaf art, and the Falling Leaves typography collection from Dutch graphic designer Twan van Keulen is really fantastic. Inspired by the falling of the leaves, leaves are cut with a scalpel and scanned, no further processing has been done, now they hang in a frame along with other […]
Love this great video of Andrew Byrom, faculty at Cal State Long Beach, who mingles typography with product design. From TedX LA. Andrew takes us through his obsessive inner workflow, where anything can become letters. Starting with words written on streets, to the way that blinds hang, anything has the potential to be turned into […]
Kyle Read is my new wedding craft hero. He made this typography string art sign for a wedding invitation project, and my inner font geek is totally freaking out. Who knew that a roll of string and a pile of nails could make something so beautiful?
Kudos to Mark Anderson, who made this incredible Lego spaceship alphabet: I was looking to create some Lego spaceships, but ran into a brick wall when it came to design. I mean what hasn’t been done to death already?! So, to kick start my creativity, I decided to do a scpaceship based on each latter […]
Brooklyn-based graphic designer Aymie Spitzer is challenging herself to carve a linocut letter every day for the month of March. Her typeface of choice? Champion Gothic because of her “deep rooted affection with its ampersand.” [via swissmiss] More: 30 Days of Creativity start today Instrument-a-Day project
Cut on the solid lines, fold on the dashes, and glue on the striped tabs to create dimensional block letters of your text.
Sometimes I see a handmade object, and i wonder, “Now, that is so clever, how on earth did they make that?” This typography soap fits into that category. I love it. As for the font, my best closest guess is DIN Schriften Neuzeit Grotesk Bold Condensed!
