Cate James

 

I'm so pleased to have discovered Cate James. She is an illustrator and hand lettering artist based in Edinburgh, UK. Her artwork is a digital combination of pencil drawings, collaged textures and strong colour. I love the way she uses hand lettering in her illustrations, her work looks very 'quick and dirty', a style I really admire. Check out her blog too!

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.

Jessica Hische

 

Designer Jessica Hische is the person behind the blog Daily Drop Cap. She is a great typedesigner, graphic deisgner and illustrator, who can measure with the like of Marian Bantjes (well... almost). I especially love her hand-lettering.

I amsterdam

Visiting Amsterdam for a few hours.

René Knip

One of the best Dutch designers in my opinion is René Knip. We attended the same Art College but I'm afraid that's where the similarity ends... His work revolves around typography and typedesign, in the widest sense of the word. He combines a craftsman’s use of materials with a personal concept of design in which he works together with authors and poets. Gebroeders Knip was founded with his brother, Edgar Knip, who is an industrial designer. They use two-dimensional lettering, as created by René, to give form and poetry to the three-dimensional structures that Edgar creates. Look at his amazing work on his website.

The garland below is also his design. It's lying around in my house, you see, I'm pretty hesitant to cut out the letters and use them as an actual garland. It would be a shame to ruine the design!

  

Jan Tschichold

Beautiful book about German typographer and book designer Jan Tschichold. I rescued it from the garbage at work.