Niels ‘Shoe’ Meulman combines Calligraphy and Graffiti to create some evocative street art. Works can include both traditional handwriting methods to hurling paint bombs at the wall.

Calligraffiti

Calligraffiti

Calligraffiti

Calligraffiti

Calligraffiti

Calligraffiti

Find more examples and explanations at Calligraffiti

Simon Page has posted this collection of hard to read typography on the behance network, comprising of both his own work and various other pieces from other various artists.

You can find the Hard To Read Typography flickr group here

I was pleased to contribute a square in this fifth patchwork collaboration curated by mod.
Where as the previous patches are often standalone pieces of artwork, this one all the artwork patches are linked by blending in small sections from the adjoining pieces. Each artist had only a few days each to create their patch, and you only really get an idea of what you can do to creatively blend your work once you receive the template.

All I could see above my work was a small confusing piece of fish or frog foot(or at least this is what I thought at the time). This left me more than a little stuck as to where to start. With a lot of white space above i decided to build that into a cloud layer.

I created a very stylised rainy backdrop. This took a few revisions, the first being far more complex and random, eventually leading to this simplified pattern like background.

I drew a (farly rubbish yet somehow endearing ‘menacing robot’ silhouette, looming forward out of the rain with some big glowing eyes that seem to draw your focus. I am quite pleased with the final result below.

Much of my work is based around geometrics and patterns, and I hoped that the edges of my work would provide at least something interesting to be worked into other peoples work. Although the lines hitting my edge were fairly simple I was confident that the people following on from my piece would be able to do something great.

And of course the full patch poster (download link for high res below):

Here is a link to the full poster, which you can download and print. You can find the original thread at yayhooray. Hope you like the poster! Please let me know what you think in the comments below.

A hairy monster alphabet, just in time for halloween! This hand drawn alphabet was created by Heather-Lynn Aquino.

alphabeast alphabet typography

I font you is a fresh new website for finding great combinations, built by two users of the ageing and somewhat dysfunctional Yay Hooray community.

Select members upload examples of their work where they have found good combinations of type faces that genuinely work well together. The site has made a solid start to becoming an excellent typography resource.

Click here to view the embedded video.

David A Smith is a name that has become synonymous in Sign-Writing and Glass gilding circles, with high quality, hand crafted reverse glass signs and decorative silvered and gilded mirrors.

In this short documentary, we reveal behind the scenes work, techniques and visions that Dave uses when carrying out his passion as a glass embosser – One of the few remaining traditional UK glass artists.

I created these experimental typography works over the last year. I was always into technical drawing and love to combine this with design to produce work with a strong sense of geometrics and technical aesthetics. All these pieces use type in an isometric perspective.

isometric typography k is for keyboard

isometric typography composition

isometric typography maze close up detail

isometric typography maze

isometric typography maze work in progress

isometric typography maze illustrator outline

I will be adding to this project as more pieces are complete and you can also view this project on my behance portfolio

French graphic design studio Salutpublic excel in print and web design, with a focus on structural and narrative strategies when it comes to solutions.

Their Books and magazines are particularly impressive examples of work in my humble opinion, it isn’t any wonder why they have won a multitude of awards.

Check out more of their work at http://www.salutpublic.be

Meanwhile, here’s a taster:

Signs, signage and even waymarking; whatever you want to call it, it’s all around us. I’m going to share a collection of images that I have collected from the corners of the internet.

I must apologise however, I wasn’t always smart enough to take notice of where the sign is nor who designed it so I’m afraid you’re going to have to enjoy this for what it is.

Eind Goud, Al Goud

Level 5

Waymarks

Waymarks

Montana Library

Terror Museum, Budapest

Terror Museum, Budapest

Anamorphic projection

University of Catalunya

North Meadow

Cooper Union canopy

Laura Barnard, illustrator, (trouble)maker – her own description of herself, I promise – wielder of pencils and prolific Twitterer.

Laura’s take on the UK’s high-speed rail link explores the possibilities of incorporating extra railway lines and how to make the trains go faster. Her quirky, cityscape style lends a hand to describe an outlandish way of making the trains go faster, if a little nausea inducing.

Take a look at Laura’s other work on her website

High speed city link

High speed city link detail

High speed city link detail

High speed city link detail