Andrei D Robu

Andrei has made a lovely poster studying the snowflake, how festive. His other work is worth checking out too, nice website.

[via SwissMiss]

Pixel8

Pixel8 is the work of Glasgow based designer, Greig Anderson, of Effektive. This is an interesting type project.

Arietta Type Specimen & Process Book

I’m fairly sure I’ve seen this pop up somewhere before, but I fortunately stumbled across Abi Huynh’s specimen book for Arietta today and it is so lovely it makes my heart sing.

Rubiks Cube Font Generator

Jas Bhachu has made a typeface using a Rubiks cube, a really fun idea with results similar to FontStruct. Check out more of his work on his website.

Just My Type

Jacob Nylund from Formconspiracy has launched a side project for typefaces he has created in illustrator. For those of you who like contemporary typefaces, this is well worth a look, all of the work is available as a download, mostly as an ai file and you can use the type for free modifying as you [...]

Type Directors 2009 Winners

Check out the winners here.
Optica Normal is my fav. Pretty cool.
It’s pretty nice to see the best of the freshest faces out there. Some are done by one person and I ask, “How do they have time time and patience.” I applaud thee!

Genuine imitations: a type designer’s view of revivals

Matthew Carter is presenting a talk at St Bride’s Library on the 28 May. Tickets are free and selling out fast, you can get them here.

“A number of Matthew Carter’s designs have been based on historical types: ITC Galliard, Big Caslon, Big Figgins, Miller and Vincent among them. Others, like Snell Roundhand and Mantinia, were [...]

Marc Alcock

Graphic Designer and Art Director Marc Alcock has got a great website with some lovely design work. I have no idea why I love things that light up so much but they always get my attention, this is some work Marc did for Sheffield Theatres. His Pantone typeface is pretty fun too.

FontStruct

I’m not sure how long this site has been around for but it’s social networking meets font design, and the best part is you can design the fonts really easily using your favourite web browser. So create an account and start making free fonts for you and others to enjoy – of course you could [...]

Dutch Ecofont

I happened to be flicking through a magazine while visiting my parents and found a small article on a new type of font, specifically designed to be more eco-friendly. The idea being that by placing small holes throughout the letters you can save up to 20% of ink when printing. According to the creators Spranq, it’s designed [...]