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Déraciné 2007

Light calligraphy by Julien Breton. Photography by G.J. Plisson. Created without the use of Photoshop. Go here.

Poésie 2007 (photo by Julien Breton)

Kata 2008

Le savoir 2007

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The work of Owen Gildersleeve of Evening Tweed.

Found via CHRIS – TO – PHER

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‘Talk about a psychedelic mimicking of rubricated blackletter!’ –Tiffany Wardle

South Central Swiss is a free fontstruct by dom nokes (domald). Grab it here.

Check out domald’s other fontstructs here.

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‘Czech graphic design student Marta Maštálková has designed a typeface by pouring liquid caramel onto glass.’

Details (and recipe) here.

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IKEA Heights from DaveAOK on Vimeo

‘A Melodrama Secretly Shot Inside the Burbank IKEA.’ More episodes here.

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ADAC 40th Anniversary Season mailer (2006-7)

Stefan Hattenbach is a font designer from Sweden who I first met thru Rod Cavazos at Psy/Ops. His types always take me to another place. The forms are rooted in history, but his interpretations are all his own. And his typographic ornaments are exquisite.

Anziano ornaments

I used his Anziano fonts for ADAC’s 40th Anniversary Season – teamed with a beta version of Stefan’s Beef fonts.

Beef will (finally) be released next year thru Veer. And I should note, Stefan is a vegetarian. Beef is pure irony. [Read more →]

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The upscale typography blog has a few beautiful Hungarian type images posted, via Budapesti Történeti Múzeum (Budapest History Museum). Details here.

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Continuing in NYC is Barbara Kruger’s typography-based exhibition about media bombardment, Between Being Born and Dying. Show runs thru November 21. More info here and here.

Found via Michael Martinho

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Designed by UK-based design student Alex Creamer. Details here.

Found via Ashley Simko

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Here’s a massive photoset of Kazuko Shinoka’s (extra firm) version 1.0 Tofu Robot!

And
Here’s snaps of v. 2.0  . . . .

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. . .  with mascarpone and balsamic syrup. Recipe here.

Found via Design Crush

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