Two striking elements combine to make Humble by Xavier Humbert a cheery brand to enjoy. TT Trailers Black with it’s idiosyncratic condensed M and B does the heavy lifting on the word mark and a “humble” king, who’s swapped his crown for a snazzy hat. I’m not sure it’s an original illustration, but I’ll give it […]
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Script Font – Steak
An inspiration angle this week rather than a directly used font of a design we’ve looked at over the past 7 days. I covered the conflict between Tasty Burger and Tasty Made. Both had a retro (hipster) feel including type in a red oblong shape. Tasty Burger had a script design that doubles down on […]
ADI Awards – Geometry and Typographic Car Crashes
Here’s a bright and bold identity for the biannual product design focussed ADI Awards. With 3 categories, product design, student work and a more abstract cultural work the awards have been given since 1961 and are describes as “an important channel for promotion and a valuable platform for public recognition for designers and companies in […]
Neue Haas Grotesk
This week, keeping things tied in by featuring fonts from logos we’ve looked at during the week, it’s the excellent Neue Hass Grotesk, as seen on the branding for the 9th Berlin Biennale . It’s a Swiss neo-grotesque and during its lifetime it was rebranded as Helvetica. Yes, that Helvetica. The two fonts have taken different […]
The Doves Type
The tale of Doves type is one of passion and obsession from two men; Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, a 20th-century bookbinder and Robert Green, a 21st-century designer. Cobden-Sanderson was striving to produce the perfect book, perfect in every way. He partnered with Emery Walker to start a private press called Doves Press based in Hammersmith London (a part of […]
Abril Titling
I’m going to start linking the Font of the Week with logos that have been featured during the previous 7 days. I guess it won’t always work, but lets have a go. Last week I featured FF Mark after it’s use on the Mastercard rebrand. This week, appearing in the Hrivnak is the excellent Abril. Designed […]
Bistroteket Stencil Logo-type
Great stencil friendly typographical solution for Bistroteket, created the people of 25AH. Good enough to be used liberally on the premises and then used with care on the supporting materials. Colour palette is fab and the photography is spot on too. If I had to complain, it would be the secondary font and it’s application is perhaps a little inelegant, especially on […]
Meltow – Font of the Week
If there’s a trend that won’t go away in type at the moment (other than a resurgence of 1970’s style type) it’s fancy-dan brush script fonts. Meltow by Typesketchbook then ticks pretty much every box going, thick bold brush like letters? Check. Thin flowing script? Check. Distressed scratchy variation? Check! Knock yourself out then with this […]
All Smiles for new Logitech Logo
Swiss electronics firm Logitech switches out it’s confused eye with a teal splurge thing for a clean word mark with a smile. Wired discusses Logitechs CEO Bracken Darrell move from design focussed Braun to engineering focused Logitech in 2012 and how this began Logitechs move from making great PC mice (selling it’s BILLIONTH in 2008) to […]
Muller – Font of the Week #7
Muller by Font Fabric It’s tempting to make my font of the week posts all about fancy, pretty new fonts, the latest cool thing going. This week however it’s a font I’ve used for a client. It’s a carefully crafted geometric font with a full set of weights. Muller by Font Fabric comes with a […]
Logomotion – Font of the Week #6
Logomotion by TipoType I try in my font of the week posts to discover and share great fonts that I think will serve well within branding projects or super typefaces that are perhaps a little unknown and I’ve used myself recently. I’ve tended to steer towards more display type fonts with oodles of character because, […]
Freeland – Font of the Week #5
Freeland by Laura Condouris Freehand is nothing less than a simply beautiful hand penned calligraphic typeface. It’s got a really inky feel to it and suits some of your more hipsters brands, ideal as exampled, for craft businesses, cafe’s and coffee shops. An excellent bonus for a font like this is that the designer […]
Selfie – Font of the Week #3
Selfie by Maximiliano Sproviero I’ve a weakness currently for monoline script fonts, Selfie is a new typeface from Argentinean Maximiliano Sproviero. It has just the right amount of twists and curves, swashes and swooshes to create excellent looking swirling type design. Available in 4 formats light, regular, bold and the ever popular distressed “printed” variation, there’s […]
Tolyer – Font of the Week #2
So this really will only be weekly at best, but I wanted to sneak this in because a. I was thinking about it b. it’s a good font and c. it’s a tenner (£10) for the lot until tomorrow So font of the erm.. week #2 is… Tolyer by Typesketchbook I was drawn to it as […]
Brand Sweden – Nordic Minimalism
Branding a country is a difficult prospect, opinions on what countries stand for usually based on their own regional stereotypes, Belgium for example to me in the UK tends to be seen as dull and boring where as in Germany, Belgium takes on the role that Ireland does to the British, the butt of many […]