Inspirations.  

Streetwear Catwalk

In street fashion, ways of walking, gestures and postures are as much part of fashion as the outfit....

Neverending Graphics

Graphics and animations are generated on the fly, resulting in perpetual variations. Move your mouse...

TYPOGRAPHY

RESEARCH

Living Ink

Living Ink is a creative tool for the users of penccil. With Living Ink, users can create graphics i...

Identity

Corporate Identity development for Qatar Foundation, 2007. Public facing spaces: interiors, exterior...

Font design for a video game

Glyph

Glyph: from Greek γλυφή, "carving," and γλύφειν, "to hollow out, engrave, carve". It is ...

Create Your World

An interactive creation app featuring 3D sculpture generation, object painting, camera mapping, 3D a...

Inter Face

Stages in the user interface design development for penccil.com, 2012-2014. Through a period of two ...

Áron Jancsó

“I’m a type addict. Building from scratch is how I like to work, sometimes even designing every ...

Lucha Libre

A small set of ´Lucha Libre´-posters found by Dutch graphic designer Hans Gremmen at a printer in ...

Versuchsaufbau A

Die Grundidee des Versuchsaufbaus–A beruht auf dem System der astronomischen Sonnenuhr. Sonnenuhre...

Laucke Siebein, Amsterdam and Berlin

Studio Laucke Siebein is a design studio based in Amsterdam and Berlin. Dirk Laucke (1965) – born ...

Deutschland

Design of painted wall texts by Rasmus Koch studio for artist Jens Haaning. In 2004, Jens Haaning wr...

Numerical Digits 1 — 9

1 — 9 for 36 Days of Type — instagram.com/maandesign

Contingency, Complexity, Symmetry

Patterns are all around us in architecture, graphics, or art. The Arabesque is a type of ornament wh...

Resonance

Graphics generated on the basis of selected passages in Mozart´s Piano Sonatas, 2012.

Din ディン Futura フーツラ

Fonts as glasses: Type glasses, Tokyo.

La Lettre Artistique et Moderne

Specimens from "La Lettre Artistique et Moderne" by Editions Monrocq Frères, Paris. Discovered by P...

Karl Martens

Karel Martens is a Dutch designer and teacher. After training at the school of art in Arnhem, he has...

The Same But Different

Graphic designer Jan Avendano lives and works in Toronto. She is available for coffee hangouts, col...

Now whip it / into shape / shape it up / get straight / go forward / move ahead

Experimental Jetset is a small, independent, Amsterdam-based graphic design studio, founded in 1997 ...

Corbin Mahieu

Corbin Mahieu is a Ghent based graphic designer. He studied graphic design at Saint-Lucas, Ghent and...

Takeshi Okada

Graphic designer Takeshi Okada, born in Hokkaido / Sapporo, skillfully combines Japanese and Western...

I like it. What is it?

Anthony Burrill was born in Littleborough, Lancashire. After studying Graphic Design at Leeds Polyte...

Where Do I End And The World Begins: Hubert & Fischer

Founded by Philipp Hubert and Sebastian Fischer, Hubert & Fischer is a design studio with offices in...

Futurist Aristocracy

Axis No.3, England 1935; De Stijl No.1, Netherlands 1917; Futurist Aristocracy, USA No.1, 1923; Futu...

20th Century Avantgarde Magazines: Blast

Selected pages form Blast No.2, London 1915.

20th Century Avantgarde Magazines: Le Tour de Babel, Les Reverberes

Selected pages from Les Reverberes No.2, Paris 1938, and Le Tour de Babel, France 1925.

20th Century Avantgarde Magazines: Bauhaus, Blok, Mecano

Selected pages and illustrations from 20th century avant-garde magazines: Bauhaus No. 2, Germany 192...

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...

Geometric Pentimento

A pentimento is a trace of a previous work in a painting, showing where an artist corrected parts of...

Fontastic: Script

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

Fontastic: Decorative

Unusual decorative font specimens from the 1940s.

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...