TypeNeu™
An Odyssey in Typography

Crewel Work book design for Tracy A. Franklin by Hype Type.

DEL Scholarship Poster — Printed with spot gold metalic on Hannoart Gloss 200gsm 594 x 420mm (A2) from the portfolio of Chris Killeen.

Visoko is a playfull and geometric typeface inspired by post modern fonts designed by Mecanorma from 80s. This typeface has been designed on a grid of 7×6 squares but the goal was to create variations from the grid to give the character a destructured aspect. Visoko is available in two styles : regular and italic.

DIN Next™ is a typeface family inspired by the classic industrial German engineering designs, DIN 1451 Engschrift and DIN 1451 Mittelschrift. Linotype has been supplying its customers with the two DIN 1451 fonts since 1980. Recently, they have become more popular than ever, with designers regularly asking for additional weights. Linotype’s Type Director, Akira Kobayashi, supervised the creation of the new typeface family based on these classic designs.

No hidden message is a project about digital type and text initiated by Miriam Magdalena Tetzlaff. It’s about explorations and experiments with letters, words and messages with focus on contemporary trends in communication, tools and media. By creating typographic approaches with message as medium and medium as message. Therefore the title No hidden message has an controversial double-meaning: It says the work either carries no more message than the work itself or it means the message is as direct as text can be.

Belfast Fanciers Club. Several design houses across Belfast were asked to contribute to an exhibition that coincides with the relaunch of the refurbished Ulster Hall. The brief was to re-design a concert poster from the many artists and acts that graced its stage over the years.

Hyperkit’s simple approach combined with beautiful considered typography and sensitive use of colour is superb.

Inspired by the Gutemberg’s Textura, this typeface is based on the principle of anamorphosis: moving in space and the angle reveals the letter. by Atelier Aquarium

Kalin Varbanov designed a geometric modular structure to the Glagolitic alphabet, the oldest known Slavic one.

Inside the Oporto’s design scene, R2 has, for 14 years, presented a colossal volume of work, establishing itself as one of the most relevant and top-notch creative studio in Portugal.

Fontfabric is a new and fresh type foundry based in Bulgaria.

An exhibition on letterpress, produced with letterpress is currently on at the London College of Communication. It is running from the 5th – 11th March. If you can, go see it. The work is really good. More information here and some shots of the private view on Flickr. The work has recently being in Creative Review and Grafik.

A nice bit of web software for building colour combinations. Check it out here.

Build has created some nice printed material for the Design Museum shop. More over at their Flickr page.

Extensive article on diacritics (use and design) in ILT, by David Březina.

M. S. Corley has some beautiful book covers in the style of Pinguin Classics. Have a look to his Flickr album.

DSType redesign and update their site with a brand new sans-serif typeface: Dobra.

Official Classics spawned from the minds of two young enthusiastic graphic designers Mark Zador and Attila Horvath. They are both unlimited lovers of typography and geometry, forms and colours, computers and game consoles, graffiti and stickers, magazines and blogs, work and rest, music and silence, winters and summers the list goes on…

Gridmaker is a tool that let’s you customize grids and save them.

Xavier Lanau have created Apparata, a typeface designed for the project of the Master in Advanced Typography at Eina school of design, Barcelona 2008. The first approach was to create a type for Apparatu ceramic design firm, used to set the logo and the complete identity design system. The intention to complete the typeface turned by academic needs into a more ambitious project, so the end result is a new font family. Currently includes three weights, Light, Light Italic & Bold.

Timothy Saccenti – Identity System.

The Practice Sessions is a workshop and panel discussion by Frank Chimero, Duane King, Matt Owens and Antonio Carusone that’s taking place at the National Student Show & Conference from April 2 – 4 in Dallas, Texas. The Practice Sessions was created by Thinking for a Living, an ever-growing platform dedicated to the concept of open source design education. “Through a network of topic specific design sites with a focus on education and resources, we share our thoughts, inspirations, critical analysis, design histories and individual experiences relating to a career in design.”

Almost Modern just launched a new grid based showcase site with a bunch of new work.

The latest font from Morten Ivelands infamous Foundry. Due to release february 2009.

Lightwriting is a new technique by Visionlabz that uses 40 LEDs controlled with Arduino and Processing to write words and patterns.

But does it float is an ongoing visual conversation curated by Folkert and Atley.

KERN is a minimalist typography experience challenging you to precisely place a missing letter into a falling word while avoiding any unnecessary ligatures! Practice and prove your typographical acumen with a score that gives new meaning to point-size!

Suprb are proud to announce that we have created a custom typeface for the Swedish magazine CAP&Design, the Nordic regions largest magazine for graphic designers. The typeface is named CAPSET and will be used in every issue as graphic elements and headlines throughout the whole magazine.

Chris Clarke – Artism – Art for Autism. “Artism is an independent organisation aiming to create a book bursting with artists work which will be sold to raise money for the National Autistic Society ‘Routine’ is based on the way the autistic mind has a pre-occupation with particular objects, or certain characteristics of them, without regard to there accepted function. For this reason autistic people show a sustained resistance to change in the environment and strive to maintain routine. The slight discomfort of legibility also remarks on the autistic need to make patterns and lines with objects regardless of there use, and a tendency to make collections and organise – In doing so It highlights the supposed hidden characteristics of Autism. ‘Routine’ will be printed in Artism, due for release May 2009.”

Suprb is currently searching for a talented interactive designer intern in our office in Stockholm, Sweden. We are flexible about start date. Apply now!