Great illustrative type by Alison Carmichael, Marion Deuchars and at various artists at this blog.
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Website of Wieden & Kennedy creative Hanif Kureshi, based in Delhi. There’s a great range of work from typography to illustration and some interesting student projects. His site dedicated to Indian hand-painted type is well worth a look too. He aims to create digital versions of traditional hand-painted typography. This article explains more.
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For the India special edition of Wallpaper magazine, Geetika Alok and Henrik Kubel were commissioned to design a custom typeface. The slideshow explains it’s origins in traditional Kolam designs. Further information here. Geetika’s site is worth having a look at for the Indian-focused projects she did whilst a postgraduate student at the Royal College of Art in London.
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Brilliantly simple idea for a typographic animation.
As i keep telling you all, most free typefaces are badly-designed, ugly and not worth using. However, there are some lovely people, talented people out there who give away their fonts for free. Font Fabric have lots of decent examples including VAL, Null and Dekar. Conquerer Paper have some simple versions in a classic style. Other good ones are: Lautus Thin, Doughboy, Geomancy, Paper Boat, Neu Eichmass, Alt Retro, Aura, Planer Regular, Adec, Matilde, Teardrop and Melbourne.
Most of these come from the brilliant blog www.freetypography.com
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Advertising agency Leo Burnett’s Mumbai office has designed this font as a way of celebrating the life and teachings of the Mahatma. It is free to download from www.gandhijifont.com.
1. ilovetypography.com
Japan-based designer John D. Boardley created his blog in order to make people more aware of the typography that’s around them.
2. swisslegacy.com
Swiss designer Xavier Encinas with his very Swiss blog focused on typography, graphic design and inspiritional matters.
3. typography.com
The blog of Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones.
4. typophile.com
A forum / blog system with discussion boards dedicated to all areas of type design, from identifying fonts to interviews with typographic designers.
5. slanted.de
A weblog published by MAGMA Brand Design from Karlsruhe, Germany about typography and layout. It complements their printed quarterly magazine.
6. spiekermann.com
Erik Spiekermann, self-confessed sufferer of ‘Typomania’, gives his typographic perspective on a variety of things in his Spiekerblog.
7. typetheory.com
Another aggregator that pulls together all manner of posts on contemporary typography, created by US designer Ty Wilkins.
The British graphic designer and typographer is currently giving away a free font. The rest of his distinctive typefaces at Virus Fonts are worth checking out too. There is a strong political or social influence on lots of his work, for example his alternative set of Olympic Pictograms or his book of ‘Shocking Global Facts’ which is in our library. Also see the work of his design studio.