Posts tagged with ‘typography’

Designer Caleb Heisey, aka Patch Co., has designed patches for every one of the 120 state parks in Pennsylvania, “in hopes that it would inspire both residents of PA and out-of-staters to visit parks and fall in love with the outdoors all over again.” This is a sample. Love the retro feel, color palettes, and iconography.

Designer Caleb Heisey, aka Patch Co., has designed patches for every one of the 120 state parks in Pennsylvania, “in hopes that it would inspire both residents of PA and out-of-staters to visit parks and fall in love with the outdoors all over again.” This is a sample. Love the retro feel, color palettes, and iconography.

B like Botanical Alphabet by Seth Mach from Savannah. The alphabet is both beautiful and incredibly finely detailed. Wow.

Via typostrate

New York City-based designer Mike Joyce has mashed up punk rock and the Swiss School of graphic design to create a series of reimagined gig posters, using only Berthold Akzidenz Grotesk (one of my faves).

(Source: swissted.com)

Canadian designer Dave Brown has come up with a winner for the branding of a local bakery. As he writes:

“Honey Bake Shop is Uptown Waterloo’s newest bakery specializing in custom cakes, cake-pops, cupcakes, cookies, tarts and pastries. The overall aesthetic of the shop is modern industrial meets vintage with soft and welcoming feel.”

Via thedsgnblog
The Paper Mill website combines beautiful photography, good copywriting, and most important, outstanding sense of typographic hierarchy and rhythm.

The Paper Mill website combines beautiful photography, good copywriting, and most important, outstanding sense of typographic hierarchy and rhythm.

My new hero: designer Malary Lee, who designed a beautiful, minimal booklet illustrating grammar snafus.

(Source: behance.net)

How do you brand a temporary project? By visually referencing that temporariness, and building in flexibility for future expansion. That’s the approach that Manual took to design brand materials for Proxy, “a temporary two-block project located in San Francisco that provides a flexible environment of food, art, culture and retail.” As Manual explains: Renovated shipping containers and temporary architecture form the backbone of Proxy, conceived and curated by architectural firm envelope a+d. When commissioned to conceive a new identity for Proxy, we chose to visually reference the temporary and modular nature of the project. The resulting typographic-led identity is born out of the concept of ‘placeholder’, and employs a flexible graphic framework that will unfold across signage, printed materials and online communications. Via callumbest

How do you brand a temporary project? By visually referencing that temporariness, and building in flexibility for future expansion. That’s the approach that Manual took to design brand materials for Proxy, “a temporary two-block project located in San Francisco that provides a flexible environment of food, art, culture and retail.”

As Manual explains:

Renovated shipping containers and temporary architecture form the backbone of Proxy, conceived and curated by architectural firm envelope a+d.

When commissioned to conceive a new identity for Proxy, we chose to visually reference the temporary and modular nature of the project. The resulting typographic-led identity is born out of the concept of ‘placeholder’, and employs a flexible graphic framework that will unfold across signage, printed materials and online communications.

Via callumbest

The branding of Fenwick Pythons, a snake breeding business, is an outstanding example of matching production techniques and concept. As designer Jay Fletcher explains:

Based in Toronto, Ontario, Fenwick Pythons promotes the hobby and captive breeding of exceptionally unique and genetically diverse ball pythons.

This entire project was a blast, to say the least (when a guy calls from Canada asking you to brand his snake-breeding business, you take the job), but I’m especially fond of Fenwick’s oversize 4” x 2.5” letterpressed calling cards, printed on Neenah Classic Crest “Tarragon” duplexed with “Epic Black” at a total weight of 230#. The large, blotchy pattern on the black side was printed first with metallic copper ink, then the scales were blind pressed on top to give the card a shining, slithering, snaky feel.

fenwickpythons.com

Via niitf

Jessica Hische, the San Francisco illustrator-designer known for her Daily Drop Cap blog, created illustrated drop caps for Penguin Book’s re-release of some classics, including the work of Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot.

(Source: imprint.printmag.com)

Happy Yap! logo designed by Robin Easter Design, of Knoxville. The whimsical feel, the choice of type, and the color palette are a home run for me, as is the studio’s website. I discovered R.E.D. because they designed the website for the Arrowmont School, where I’ll be taking an embroidery/drawing workshop in August. It’s quite interesting, and a bit jealousy-inducing, to see the kind of fun work and range of clients in the heartland, away from the surfeit of government agencies and associations in the D.C. area.  Another fun one is the logo for Scoop’d.

Happy Yap! logo designed by Robin Easter Design, of Knoxville. The whimsical feel, the choice of type, and the color palette are a home run for me, as is the studio’s website.

I discovered R.E.D. because they designed the website for the Arrowmont School, where I’ll be taking an embroidery/drawing workshop in August. It’s quite interesting, and a bit jealousy-inducing, to see the kind of fun work and range of clients in the heartland, away from the surfeit of government agencies and associations in the D.C. area. 

Another fun one is the logo for Scoop’d.

Plate liner designed by James Letherby, a montage of song titles related to food. The concept is spot on, and of course, I’m a sucker for all things typographic. Who knew this many songs had food in the title?

Plate liner designed by James Letherby, a montage of song titles related to food. The concept is spot on, and of course, I’m a sucker for all things typographic.

Who knew this many songs had food in the title?

Landing page for BBC America’s new dramatic series Copper. I just love the color palette, and typography, and the way in which the background imagery and the video player is integrated. Site design by Threespot, best that I can determine.

Landing page for BBC America’s new dramatic series Copper. I just love the color palette, and typography, and the way in which the background imagery and the video player is integrated. Site design by Threespot, best that I can determine.