Jessica Hische

Jessica Hische is a designer, illustrator and typographer who lives in Brooklyn. Her work includes designing, in her words, pretty things and drawing styles of type.  Her work spans a vast range of jobs including editorial illustration and designing hand lettering for romantic novel covers. 
I believe that her work has to be admired and when [...]

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Alex Gopher – The Child

The Child by Alex Gopher is a really good typography animation.  The entire city is created out of letters and it has been really cleverly produced.

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Dirt Poster

Roland Tiangco’s dirt poster.  The recipient completes by revealing spot-varnished type with hands made dirty by handling the poster.
Utter genius!

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Some Nice Publications

Found these book designs on the Creative Review  website.  In my opinion they have been beautifully designed and are really interesting. 
Goalkeeper Forever

Zdzisław Sosnowski’s was himself a goalkeeper and that inspired him to create this particular exhibition that focused on celebrities and in this instance on footballers.  This exhibition was originally shown in 1975 and has recently [...]

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Sarah King

I found this illustrator on YCN and I have posted some of my favourite illustrations that were produced by Sarah King.  She is a freelance illustrator from London and works for many different clients with The Guardian and Oprah Magazine being among them.
She uses type to create the images and I think that they have been beautifully produced. My [...]

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Bruno Maag Talk

I attended a talk by world-renowned typographer Bruno Maag at the University of Ulster.  It lasted a mere hour, but it was probably one of the most informative and interesting hours of my life.  Maag is a very talented speaker; he was extremely talented at captivating the audience and presenting his ideas and thoughts in [...]

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Information Graphics

I came across this web designer’s CV tonight, on digg.com. Design-wise, it’s not bad, I’m sure it could be done better, but I think the idea is great. But it did remind me of the wonderful graphics designed by the critically acclaimed information designer from New York, Nicolas Felton.

Nicolas Felton spends his life organising data. [...]

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