I ❤️ letterforms — Lettering, Graphic & Type Design
Master essential typography rules every designer must know. Enhance readability, balance aesthetics, and communicate effectively with these design principles.
Rex Brasher is one of America's great bird artists. His vast body of work has remained largely unknown to the public for the past century.
A selection of experimental typographic illustrations by Peter Strain. Peter Strain is an award winning illustrator who lives and works in the city of
Commissioned graphic artworks and illustrations by Leandro Castelao. Leandro Castelao is an illustrator and graphic artist born in Buenos Aires,
A colorful series of posters about Zaha Hadid buildings. Anastasia Bakusheva is a Saint Petersburg, Russia based graphic designer and illustrator. As a
Gallery of typographic original paper artwork inspired by typefaces, letterforms, characters, calligraphy, and graphic design.
Jo Malinis is a graphic designer from the Philippines whose work spans across brand identities, type design and working with letterforms in different forms.
Graphic Design 1 starts out in black and white, with type. Cropped Letterforms // For this project students create individual compositions using the distinct parts of individual letterforms. Individual squares should be engaging and the grid should form a unified composition. This is an opportunity to both closely examine the attributes and structure of letter forms and the create engaging graphic compositions. Active Words // For this project students show the meanings of words through letter-by-letter typographic arrangements. The challenge is to visualize the meaning of a word, using only the graphic elements of the letters forming the word, without adding any outside parts (a difficult rule to adhere to). This oft used graphic design assignment became a lifelong project for designer Ji Lee, which is quite inspiring for the students to see. http://pleaseenjoy.com/projects/personal/word-as-image/
This is one of my class exercises of emerging letterforms into composition. First I create a graphic from three letterforms using the principle of figure relationships. Then I repeat graphic forms in a grid to create a visually dynamic design. "The form of an object is not more important than the form of the space…
As part of my MFA Visual Thesis, this project explored the advent of the generative design field and the lack of generative methodologies in modern graphic design curriculum over the past decade. All letterforms displayed were rendered with Processing, a …
Even the most cursory glance through Kasper-Florio’s mainly monochrome portfolio would indicate that this is graphic design of a particular heritage. The crisp letterforms and pared-back approach to layout scream “Swiss” before you even learn where they’re based (St. Galen) or their recent appearanc
Exploring graphic letterforms as an extension of the body, and investigating the notion of hyper-femininity, the type designer and artist Charlotte Rohde challenges the gender bias of type design.
For over 40 years, graphic designer Rob Saunders has been collecting books, periodicals, maquettes, posters, and other ephemera that reflect his passion for letterforms and graphic design history. As his collection swelled to 15,000 pieces he started to consider its destiny. Realizing that other des
Posters for Informal Type Foundry. Informal Type is a small-scale, Istanbul-based project that produces predominantly display fonts, away from the concept of legibility of traditional type founders, is are divided from them in terms of the dynamics of forming letterforms and the subjects they focus on. Its target audience is professional graphic designers and graphic design students. Typefaces created by Informal type focuses on social/cultural, artistic and economic issues in the process of designing. Furthermore, it incorporates literary, visual and auditory content produced in this area into the process of designing their own letterforms and inspire or refer to them.
Brand design trends on the horizon for Q3 • Trend #1: 90’s typography (all about that editorial style baby!) • Trend #2: flat logo designs (simplicity at its best) • Trend #3: dream fantasy (imaginative fonts, colors, and graphics) • Trend #4: graphic fonts (the intersection of letterforms and shapes) • Like and follow for more design tips like these!
Jouri Toreev is a graphic designer from Belarus who we’re ashamed to have only just discovered. Since the mid-1980s, the Minsk-based designer has been creating superbly abstract and painterly graphic design work, as well as more set design-reliant pieces of commercial imagery. His often minimal colour palettes frequently rely on red, and their sweeping unusual shapes give them a feel of eastern European 1960s movie posters. Jouri’s vast portfolio includes a series of unusual calligraphy pieces, where expressive letterforms fill the page in sweeping gestures. Elsewhere he’s also created a series of abstract expressionist-style paintings, ranging from Braque-esque tree scenes to more traditional landscapes and colourful geometry-led compositions.
Letterforms designed by Chris Caldwell. Connect with them on Dribbble; the global community for designers and creative professionals.
Benoît Bodhuin claims to be “curious about everything” which is a useful trait for a graphic designer. Specialising in type design, Benoît has designed a wide variety of type families including Marriane, Zigzag and Mineral. Continuing to impress us with a determination to push the limits of the abstract letterforms Benoît’s most recent creations are two grid inspired typefaces Standard and Pickle-Standard.
