Produced and submitted to achieve membership to the International Society of Typographic Designers, designer Tuesday Stevens’ Cosmetic Typographic Surgery dossier is a medicine bag of DIY, hand-finishing techniques.
See it all HERE.
This year’s Fedrigoni Calendar, designed by agency ‘The One Off’
Jeopardy Magazine is the literary and fine arts publication of Western Washington University that showcases the unique creative works of the university community each year.
With almost too many great examples to choose from, I highly recommend you take a scroll through the book jacket designs of Wang Zhi Hong.
Mr Prudence’s found scrapbook containing an impressive collection of old Soviet propaganda.
Print and editorial by Studio Feed.
Triboro Design worked up the Publication and website for photography agency JK&
Jon Wong is a recent addition to the is050 blog, and his portfolio has a small but well executed collection of projects. This books project particularly caught my eye as a a nice ode to vintage science books.
It’s in no way the best project on there so be sure to go take a look at his site.
“First published in 1962, this work of experimental typography uses letters in a single typeface, Helvetica, to achieve surprising results — motion and narrative, emotion and humor.”
Lego fans might be keen to know about the newly released history/culture book of the famous brick toy ‘The Cult of Lego’.
All reviews seem rather favourable, as does this video flick through the book.
See it here.
The publishers say this much better than I ever would.
3 years, 148 posts, 904 comments and over 2.5m visits later,
Design Assembly (as we know it) is no more.But, instead of slipping quietly into the night, we wanted to capture
all the energy that’s gone into making and maintaining the site and put
it to a greater cause — fighting cancer.‘3’ archives over 100 published articles, comments included,
as well as showcasing new and exclusive words and images from
some incredible people.
It looks like a great piece of print design to top it off. Check it out here.
‘Never Exhibited’ is a catalogue of never exhibited paintings from the collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam acquired under the direction of Willem Sandberg, from 1945 to 1963.
Designed by Paris based design agency FiZZZ BZZZZ!
Hélène Zünd is a Swiss designer based in New York, who also has a very accomplished portfolio of Print and Editorial work.
Take a look here.
Tony Lee, Jr. works in New York at Pentagram - however his personal portfolio has some gems in, including this experimental book of William Faulkner’s ‘As I Lay Dying’.
The book contains fifteen characters all of whom contribute voice and tone in streams of consciousness as the book goes on.
The experiment here sees each of the voices allocated a different typeface before being typeset within the whole book. Typographically not the easiest feat to pull off, but interesting to take a look at. However the grid is simple, and the use of images help to break up the spreads and make the content more manageable.
Take a look here.