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Fonts by Benjamin Varin

Font design by French graphic designer Benjamin Varin. Benjamin Varin studied at the Ecole Nationale...

Patterns

Hansje van Halem graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2003 and works as an independent gra...

Crafting Letters

Kevin Cantrell studied Graphic Design at Brigham Young University. Clients include Macklemore & Ryan...

El Lissitzky and Hans Arp: The Isms

Die Kunstismen (Les Ismes de l´art, The Isms of Art), designed and published by El Lissitzky and Ha...

Kasper Pyndt

Kasper Pyndt: I am a Danish designer with a strong interest in type and print. I obtained my BA from...

More Tong

More Tong is illustrator, typographer, graphic designer and city cyclist based in Shanghai, China. M...

Colors and emotions

If the news would be the colors and emotions of the day: https://penccil.com/unformation/news.html

Gravity Typography

Simulated gravity and physical movement are applied to typed letters. Type some letters, hit enter,...

Richard Niessen

Richard Niessen (Edam-Volendam, 1972) graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 1996. Richard wo...

Card Alphabet

Typography on beautiful playing cards.

Wim Crouwel

Born in the Netherlands in 1928, Wim Crouwel trained at the Art Academy Minerva (1946–49) and afte...

Type

Fonts by Mario Gagliardi Design, 2009-2010

Superscript² Typography

Fondé à Lyon en 2006 par Pierre Delmas Bouly et Patrick Lallemand, Superscript² est un studio de ...

Rasmus Koch

Work by Rasmus Koch Studio, Copenhagen. Rasmus Koch was educated at the Danish Design School. After ...

Jaemin Lee

Graphic designer Jaemin Lee lives and works in in Seoul, Korea. He graduated with a BFA in visual co...

Massimo Vignelli 1931-2014

Massimo Vignelli was one of the most profound and canonical graphic designers of the 20th century. ...

Lettering

Graphic artist Istvan Szugyiczky studied at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts. His clients include ...

Johann David Steingruber: Architektonisches Alphabet

Johann David Steingruber was an architectural designer and builder in the service of margrave Karl W...

Alfabeto Pittorico by Antonio Basoli

Antonio Basoli (Castel Guelfo, 1774–1848) was an Italian painter, interior designer, scenic design...

Herb Lubalin

New York graphic designer, dean of American art directors since World War II, type designer since 19...

Jessica Svendsen, New York

Jessica Svendsen is a graphic designer working at Pentagram in New York. She received a MFA in Grap...

Paris by Moshik Nadav

Moshik Nadav was born 1983 in Israel and graduated from the Typography department at the Bezalel Aca...

Finnish Type: Kokoro & Moi

Kokoro & Moi was founded in 2001 by designers Teemu Suviala and Antti Hinkula. Clients include City ...

Hairy

Monique Goossens creates typography with materials such as hair, fish and frogspawn. She studied at ...

Ununiverse Nonothing

Graffiti calligraphy by Niels Shoe Meulman. He is born, raised and based in Amsterdam, The Netherlan...

Michiel Schuurman

Michiel Schuurman is a Dutch graphic and textile designer. Schuurman’s personal work specializes i...

Bello

Design in use with Bello, a popular font by Underware. The worst designs happen when an offering is ...

Tauba

Typographic works by New York-based artist Tauba Auerbach. Tauba works in a wide variety of media in...

c´est bon ça

8 variations of good.

Calendrier

A beautiful French wall calendar from the Fifties.

Specimen

Type specimens from Specimens of Chromatic Wood Type, Borders, Etc by the William H. Page wood type ...

Typografisch

TM: The Typografische Monatsblätter, founded 1933, have been highly influential in making Swiss typ...

Luca Nichetto: Hai

Luca Nichetto was born in 1976 in Venice, where he studied at the Art Institute. Afterwards he atten...

fly, laugh, dance, run, jump, talk, sing, skate, and play

Personajes que vuelan, ríen, bailan, corren, saltan, hablan, cantan, patinan y juegan. Personajes q...

Fontastic: Script

Stupendous script font specimens from the 1950s by M.Meijer.

Fontastic: Bold

Remarkable bold font specimens from the 1940s.

Fontastic: Narrow

Surprising narrow font specimens from the 1940s.

Australian Calligraphy

graphic creations by Dave Foster, a designer based in Sydney, Australia. His work has been awarded ...

Typography 1882

Rare typographic specimen sheets from the Album de Peintre en Batiment by N. Glaise, Editeurs Ducher...

T.W.O.

Think Work Observe is a graphic design studio based in Udine (Italy) founded in 2011 by Piero Di Bia...

Italian Calligraphy

Specimen sheets of "Modelli di Calligrafia" by Guiseppina Fissore.

Fifties Type Specimens

Rare type specimens from the 1950s: ´La lettre dans la peinture et la publicite´ by J. Jovenaux, E...

Type

a collection of static and animated typography.

Mall-terations by Stereotank

Mall-terations is a temporary installation located on the Allen Street pedestrian malls between Hous...

Cyclo-phone by Stereotank

Cyclo-phone is a bicycle powered musical instrument. Users create music by pedaling on a stationary ...

Little free library by Stereotank

The Architectural League of New York partnered with Pen World Voices Festival to bring Little Free L...

Nowhere but here

typographic artwork by Scott Albrecht. Scott is an artist/designer currently based in Brooklyn, NY. ...

Idealism

Graphical illustrations of ideas. Posters by Genis Carreras and Ryan McArthur.

Beach writing

We write in the sand on the beach to create images about creativity and collaboration.

Type Lookbook

A collection of type: posters, alphabets and specimen sheets.

Fear

Projects by Ryan Everson: Fear, Fear Expanded, All My Days Off, Alone Out There, and Forever Towmor...

Break the rules

Graphics by Clement Goebels. http://366coolthings.tumblr.com

Anne Lee

Graphics and typography by Anne Lee. Anne Lee has a BFA in Graphic Design at the Maryland Institute ...

Harpels Typograph

Amazing type specimens from Harpel´s Typograph, 1870. The Hi-rez images are 2039 by 3389 pixels.

Zhang Qingyun

New York, NY: Book design and typography by Qingyun Zhang. www.zzhhaanngg.com

Font Constructions

Experiments with vector connections in font outlines. The word "Design" looks the same from afar, bu...

A Creative Day In A Creative Life

Art pour l´art all day long.

Blackboard art

New York, NY: Hand-lettered art with chalk on blackboard by Dana Tanamachi.

INSPIRING TYPE

inspiring contemporary type specimens from hellotype, groovewear, hyperkit, sebasandclim, Penguin ...

Icons

by newgrid

Found and nice

great graphics I found while surfing.

Amazing alphabets

Historic typography

THE GREAT MYSTERY

Surrealist directions for use

Paul Rand type specimens

courtesy typetoken

Cover art

Typography and graphics in Epicurean magazine covers and an unknown Japanese journal

Typetoken

work by Atelier Pariri

VH1 Don´t stop the music

images courtesy Ilovedust

Typographic construction generator

This typographic generator creates letters by connecting points within the constraints of letter out...

Slide

and be amazed

Great leaps forward

The people who made modernity. Add images of your favorite modern heroes!