Really unusual typography projects by New based designer, Craig Ward.
Typography
His type foundry Typotheque, the Indian Type Foundry’s site, an interview with Peter & Satya Rajpurohit, his partner at the ITF and also a solo interview with Satya.
The lovely people at FontShop have a variety of PDFs to download that help to explain typography. They’re really nicely designed too.
For examples of how to use type as an image, look at the work of Alex Trochut, Si Scott, Tomato (particularly their earlier work in the 90s) and Non Format.
Designer Jeanie Nelson drew this beautiful decorated typeface. Look closely at each letter and try to spot the visual puns.
Stefan Sagmeister designed the typography for this new TV ad for Standard Chartered bank.
‘Swiss’ or ‘International’ style of Graphic Design is vitally important to the development of modern graphics as we know today.
- Smashing Magazine’s Lessons from Swiss-style Graphic Design.
- Flickr group covering International style in Graphic Design.
- Flickr page of Blanka, an online poster shop showing classic designs by Herbert W Kapitzki, Armin Hofmann and Josef Müller-Brockmann.
- The work of Otl Aicher for the 1970 Olympics. More examples here.