Laura Varsky

What a great talent! Illustration, handlettering, type design, pattern design, graphic design. Laura Varsky does it all. And she does it extremely well! She is a graphic designer and illustrator from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Stumbled upon through Words and Eggs

The word as image

Fantastic book from 1970 by Berjouhi Bowler (a New Yorker by Armenian descent):
'Shaped texts have appeared all over the world, and from the most ancient times to the present day.'

Of course, nowadays the computer helps us generate text easily, but look at these pictures and keep in mind that they were all drawn, written or designed before 1970!

Letters and numbers

Fontface - atipo

Make-up that joins the expression of gesture and text to create a collection of posters in honour of four outstanding types designers. A video by Atipo, a spanish design studio. (Via Fontshop)


fontface from atipo on Vimeo.

Hansje van Halem

 

Dutch graphic and type designer Hansje van Halem must have an enormous amount of patience. And good eyes, too, for that matter. I love her endpaper designs, they show her eye for detail. Click on the images to discover how meticulous her work is.

Typodarium 2011

365 days of type inspiration. Typodarium is a tear-away daily calendar featuring a new font every day. The date - traditional and functional - is on the front page while the reverse contains background information, details, designers, and sources. Can be bought here.

Of course, the Typodarium 2012 is already in progress...