Being a fan of both Scrabble and Typography, I've gotten a bit obsessed with this new edition of the game. Andrew Capener has selected 12 great new fonts for the letters to be featured on the solid wood Scrabble tiles. Who else wants to get their hands on a set? Via Toyland . . .
Letters that Pop
Having a personal interest in hand-lettering, I flip through a whole lot of stuff on a daily basis. This particular one caught my attention today - Turkish graphic designer and electrical engineer Tolga Girgin experiments with calligraphy, making the letters seem to pop off the page. Through shading, shadows and different forms of perspective, they're given a new kind of life on the page. Really . . .
Wobbly Type
Jelly is delicious to gobble, a treat enjoyed by both children and adults. Well, I'm assuming that most adults still like jelly - how can you think that the colourful, sweet, half-food half-liquid food is anything but great? Well now apparently you can also make typography with the rainbow treat. m-inspira, a pair of designers from Valencia in Spain, recently created gelatin letters as one of . . .
Love Letters
Apparently I've become quite the design-nerd since starting work at my agency. Perhaps that is true, as I found this proposal kinda cute. San Francisco-based designer Will Geddess recently proposed to his girlfriend through the use of typographic posters. Titled 'love letters', 19 posters were created by Geddess and his fellow graphic designer, illustrator and tattoo artist friends. Together, . . .