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Nate and Paige found cool stuff

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Typographic Wizardry To Inspire Us.

 

Andrew Footit, Cinema 4D

Peter Tarka, Poland, Cinema 4D

Peter Tarka, Poland
Typographic Poster Design, An experimental poster design with distorted type effects by award-winning graphic design duo Sawdust from London, UK.

Wired, Sawdust, UK
Wired, Sawdust, UK

http://www.madebysawdust.co.uk/

Below is w+k12 students creation of this typographic message on a wall in their studio. 

 

if you roll over the “a” and “m” light up...

 

 

Next up is work by Julia Guther a Berlin based graphic designer. 

 

 

 

Above: Compilations for Warner Chappell Julia Guther’s  currently working on a series of compilation cover designs for »Warner Chappell Germany« – above are the first results.  More work by Julia Guther.

 

 
Below SAKS FIFTH AVENUE “WANT IT!” CAMPAIGN.  Michael Bierut at Pentagram hired Marian Bantjes to work with him on this campaign for Saks Fifth Avenue.

 

 

 

 

Thinking for a Living: Laser cut typography — Some really fun stuff from Start, a design collective made up of Phil Robson and Mathieu Carlot based in Sydney, Australia.

Jack Pierson is an artist whose discipline ebs and flows through photography, installation, collage, drawings and more....Check out the exhibition called White Noise  at the James Cohan Gallery in New York — you can view the work above in its context in the gallery...

 

Fire in the Hole by Oliver Munday.

Above construction from typeworkshop.com. 

“Results Under Actions is a text-based project and is designed with mobility and adaptation in mind. Transportable wall structures are used to display narrative footnotes or historical slogans that embody the stories of our built environment. Each is a graphic source with minimal text, presented to encourage many, varied and unique interpretations.”

 
Sagmeister installation made with pennies.

 
http://www.olimpiazagnoli.com/chalks/02.jpg

OMFGco’s brilliance with typography in environments — from vernacular to historic

OMFGco is a local studio — co-founded by PSU-GD Grad Fritz Messenbrink. 

Their broad body of work includes branding, interiors, experience, and advertising. They employ typography in environments with skill and humor. They often reference vernacular and historical typography anything from playful neon and illuminated signage, historic and hand drawn typefaces, collage, and heritage-references. (OMFGco knows their design history — see if you can locate the typographic references in time). 

If you have not spent time on their site and looked at their strategy, you should.

OMFGco’s answer to the contractor guy at an Ace Hotel who said “You can’t move the exit sign.” For more of the story, go here.

The Old 77 Hotel, New Orleans

Wired Hotel, Tokyo

Poler, Laguna

Ace Hotel

Electric Lettuce, Portland, Ore

Type In Motion: Parc de Collserola

 

Collserola from Javier Jaén on Vimeo.

I love stop motion by Chloe Fleury...

I love stop motion from chloe fleury on Vimeo.

Convent Typography: The Art & Activism of Sister Mary Corita

Banner from the Corita Art Center website.

ABC’s from Central Office on Vimeo. An excerpt from the Short Documentary — Become a Microscope — 90 Statements on Sister Corita “ABC”. Directed By Aaron Rose

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Uncovering Stories In Forgotten Neighborhoods: Typography Used To Capture Local Oral Histories

North South Portland is a neighborhood-based non-fiction art project created by Justin Flood, Sarah Baugh and Nicole Lavelle. Former Portland State graphic design students developed their own cultural invesitgation, exhibition space, talks and workshops. Here is a cultural project idea realized, out in the wild. Consider that your ideas for events could take root and be realized. 

 

North South Portland is an investigation into place. The exhibition and event series explores the effects of urban renewal on the South Portland neighborhood, in the form of a public window installation and a series of public events, workshops, screenings and lectures.

North South Portland aims to generate interest in the area surrounding the Field Work space through the exploration of urban history and neighborhood conversation. Through direct engagement with neighborhood residents, Portland State University students, urban scholars and oral historians, the artists wish to instill a sense of local identity and open a dialogue about contemporary issues surrounding land-use planning, public policy, and neighborhood engagement.

The exhibition explores such topics as Portland history, immigrant communities in the Pacific Northwest, memory, nostalgia, urban renewal, city politics, grassroots activism and oral histories.

As part of their work at Field Work, Sarah, Justin & Nicole created a series of workshops and talks. Below are images from their Protest Sign Workshop.

Sign from the workshop by Jennifer DeLos Reyes

Spoonful of Sugar Typography & Relational Design Experiment

 

Reblogged (Thanks Cameron!) from DesignWorkLife: “I’m so excited about this next project that designer Leen Sadder, a grad­u­ate stu­dent in the SVA Designer as Author pro­gram, con­cep­tu­al­ized. For Stefan Sagmeister’s class, “Can design touch someone’s heart?”, Leen chose to dress up as Mary Poppins and escort umbrella-less New Yorkers across the street on a rainy day. How great is that? In addi­tion to the idea being pretty damn smart, she also adorned the umbrella with some beau­ti­fully hand-lettered lyrics to A Spoonful of Sugar. You can check out a few more images of the process and results right here.”