I recently came across this great project from graphic designer Hanif Kureshi. The beautiful art of sign painting in India is threatened due to the much cheaper alternative of digital printing. Kureshi started this project in an attempt to champion and preserve some of the many incredible hand styles that were once commonplace across India. Find out more about the project at handpaintedtype.com
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Alphabettes.org is a showcase for work, commentary, and research on lettering, typography, and type design by women.
“There is no definitive form of the alphabet. To think that we’ve “solved the problem of typeface design” is to assume that the alphabet has been “solved”, that its forms have all been discovered. The alphabet is not a problem to be solved by a typeface. It is a concept made concrete through countless written and designed letterforms; the alphabet is not defined by a single typeface but expressed through all of them.”
I love this explanation of why we need new typefaces by typographer Kris Sowersby of the The Klim Type Foundry, New Zealand. Read Kris’ full blog here.
I came across this great web page recently that provides an extensive list of historic and contemporary typography design connected to Scotland. It has been compiled by Belgian-born, Canadian-based academic Luc Devroe (School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada).
Luc’s site provides similarly detailed lists for countries around the world – it’s a very useful resource!
Kimberly Ihres, a graduate from Beckmans College of Design (Stockholm, Sweden), has produced Typequality – a platform for discovering and sharing typefaces designed by women. Kimberly says “Role models are very important if young women are to dare to enter the world of typography. That’s why Typequality needs you – and everyone else who wants to contribute to a more balanced typographic room.”
The online database features links to the work of female typographers past and present, including Zuzana Licko, the Czechoslovakian creator of the beautiful Mrs Eaves font. Read more in this interview with Kimberly for Grafik.
While doing some research into the connections between topography and typography I stumbled across the fascinating Aerial Bold project (created by Benedikt Groß and Joey Lee). Go and have some fun with typing letter forms taken from satellite images of our planet and then read more about the incredible process behind the project.
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