Flying hats

A vintage game which my children still enjoy! I especially love the typography on the board. This game is from 1975. I posted another - older - version of this game here.

Valentines - Marian Bantjes

Marian Bantjes is one of my favorite designers. On her website I came across these Valentine cards (2012) which she made: 

'Because I travel a lot, I decided to use old postcards for my Valentines this year. I sent about 480, and the cards range over about 90 years: from 1901 to the late '80s, I think. They are from all over the world and they went all over the world. About 100 of them had writing on the back and had been posted before.
Then, they're all overprinted in silver with my image, which says "From me wherever I am / To you wherever you are."'

The Valentine Cards below are from 2010:

'I solicited my friends to send me all their used Christmas cards, and I started getting exciting envelopes of cards in the mail. I created the design of the heart for laser cutting. I wanted most of the card image to be cut away, but there to be enough left that some semblance of image remained; that you could tell it came from a christmas card. The final result exceeded my most hopeful expectations. How these cards (most of which were, in their original state, nothing special, or even downright ugly) gained so much more from the process.'

Found letters

Letter A

Letter C

Letter D

Letter E

Letter H

Letter L

Letter M

Letter P

Letter Q

Letter R

Letter T

Letter V

Letter W

Letter X

Font design sketches

Designing a typeface is an enormous amount of work, which usually starts out by hand. I worked on a typeface in art college but have never gotten past the sketching stage. I'd love to show you my sketches one day, but I'm afraid they're lost in the attic.

I've done a quick Google search for hand sketches and here are the results. If you're interested in the proces of type design start reading I love typography, where I found most of these images.

Above: Gerard Unger

Andrij Shevchenko

Kunihiko Okano

Ludwig Übele

Seb Lester

Stefan Willenstorfer

Stefan Hattenbach

Jose Mendoza y Almeida

Kris Sowersby