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

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.

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

All these iPhone apps have a typographic twist, from games to creating typographical artwork and experiences.

Now admittedly, sometimes the inclusion of type doesn’t make the output any better, but it’s good to see experimentation of type used and given audience on this modern device. The iPhone is an ideal platform to produce apps that experiment, play with type and breath new life into typography. Here are a selection of 10 iPhone apps that all do something a little different with type.

Kern iTunes Store | Developer Website
Kern is a Tetris style game where you have to slot the letters into place in order to balance the kerning of the words.

KERN

Type Drawing iTunes Store | Developer Website
Type drawing allows you to draw with type, and create works of art from letters. This genius little app has excellent support and even a flickr community to showcase work.

Type Drawing

Typography iTunes Store | Developer Website
Typography is a way to create messages out of found typography, and display them for friends to read. This is the iPhone version for the website typography kicks ass.

Typography

The Font Game iTunes Store | Developer Website
Created by I Love Typography, The Font Game is a fantastic multiple choice font identification game, for type geeks.

The Font Game

For All Seasons iTunes Store | Developer Website
This is an lovely simple experimental type based app. It’s also completely free.

For All Seasons

Typograffitti iTunes Store | Developer Website
Typograffitti helps you to create ransom style notes. if you want to kidnap your friends iPhone and extort some money out of them, this app could pay for itself.

typograffitti

Type War iTunes Store | Developer Website
Type War is a simple and well executed font identification game but with a 50/50 chance of getting it right

Type War

Type Photo iTunes Store | Developer Website
Turns your photos into textual representations with enough options for a wide range of interesting results.

Type Photo

Type Pong iTunes Store | Developer Website
The original arcade game is back with a typographic twist, the bats and even the ball are represented by type.

Type Pong

Helvetication iTunes Store | Developer Website
I love the name and style of this great looking app, but I’m not sure how much shelf life there is in distinguishing between Helvetica and Arial.

Helvetication

Header image via flickr, created with Type Drawing.

Since I began perusing the internet for its vast cache of design goodness, I often find myself being led back to a familiar corner of the online design community.

Whether it’s ffffound! Flickr or even Tumblr, it’s rather remarkable the number of times the recommended image/link belongs to the Korean graphic design studio, Workroom.

Seemingly effortless, the clean and expressive design supplemented by the crisp typography almost makes it look too easy.

Here is a selection of their work, along with a link to their site which contains a recent update from the year so far.

http://workroom.kr/index.html