This is pretty clever.

Serif tote bag, available here.

I’m loving these gorgeous hand-lettered pieces by Bryn of Brooklyn-based Paperfinger.

I especially love the custom return address stamps she offers – beautiful! This is a great alternative to return address printing / rsvp envelope printing.

{found via papercrave}

Last week we posted about Seb Lester and his ‘Keep it Simple” poster. We couldn’t leave it at that. We had to post more of his gorgeous work. Above is his “Home Sweet Home” poster that not only is a beautiful type specimen but also uses Mirri paper which changes colors depending on the lighting conditions. See this video of the poster for the full effect – very cool!

Another great piece in metallic gold.

Similar style in metallic silver…

…and a beautiful inspirational piece, where in the artist’s own words, he said, “I like to think that almost anyone can achieve almost anything in life. It’s all about passion, focus, and commitment. I wanted to design a strong, dynamic, inspirational poster that referenced this popular self-help adage.”

A nice thing to remind ourselves every once in a while.

All the works can be found and bought at Seb’s website or at the Keep Calm Gallery. {images from here}

I just saw this poster on the ilovetypography.com shop by the great Seb Lester (more on him later) and thought it was just a great little reminder for us designers.

While we love the fun ornate typefaces and love to look for ways to use them in the proper form, we see way too many times (more often than not) them being used poorly or overly used. Sometimes it’s good to take a step back and to “keep it simple”.

Jonathan and I have a lengthy list of fonts we’d like to purchase (oh, if only we had several thousand dollars just lying around to be spent…) and this gorgeous typeface by Alejandro Paul is currently at the top of the list. It features an astounding 1,470 glyphs (if you’re not a designer, you may not know what that means – but trust us, it’s a VERY good thing to us type nerds).

Adios Script | images from veer.com

Well, it happened. One of our absolute favorite font houses, Hoefler & Frere-Jones, came out with a new typeface this past week. As always, it’s a beauty. Sentinel is a slab serif for all occasions. It comes in a variety of weights and because of its great design it defies what other slab serifs lack and actually has  italics.

Looks like we’re going to be out another $199.00.

My ‘must have’ book list keeps getting longer. Along with numerous other books (including other typography books) I now must add The Typographic Desk Reference to the list. While it looks as though it may be a bit 101, the layout looks great and a good brushup on terminology. I love the stark white cover and while I know you should never judge a book by it’s cover – how can you go wrong a book dedicated to all the elements that makes up type?

photo via http://typedeskref.com/

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