Jeff Canham
I’ve been meaning to post this for a while now. Jeff Canham hand paints these beautiful typographic pieces. The level of craftsmanship and sheer charm of this works are absolutely stunning.
Experimental Typewriter
 Eddie Opara and George Plesko are working on a sound-sensitive word processor that creates and interesting results.
Alphabet of Animals
It’s not the most original idea for a project, as you may have seen Bembo’s Zoo, but this project provides us with some beautifully drawn type and who doesn’t love that?
…this close to booking a ticket to Switzerland
Okay. So I’ve been looking at this site some more and crying because I haven’t done this stuff yet.
RIT needs a type design seminar/program/something so that design students can take the time to examine typography beyond its basic anatomy and approach it in refreshing ways.
Manual Pixelism
After Mr. Snaggeltoof did a ridiculous amount of sweet posts on his blog,
The Big Chase. I felt that I needed to break out the big guns…Boom. Ryan. Boom…
These pictures will say the rest. Click them to learn more.
This was all done by students at ECAL.Move to Switzerland anyone?
How to Spell the Alphabet
Tauba Auerbach’s book How to Spell the Alphabet is one of the top of my wishlist. She approaches language in clever executions that are extremely entertaining and great to look at. The above image is the alphabet done in semaphore (flag positions represent letters). Not to mention her amazing paintings of letterforms.