To market YouTube shorts, YouTube’s answer to TikTok and Instagram reels, Saint-Urbain created drive-thru snacks inspired by iconic YouTube creators. In collaboration with YouTube’s internal creative team, the NYC/LA-based design and branding agency worked on the design for this innovative…
Letterform Archive has teamed up with Polymode, a black-led, LGBTQ+ and minority-owned studio, on an exhibition celebrating design that empowers communities and fights oppression. On July 23rd 2022, Letterform Archive and Polymode revealed Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest, an exhibition…
The six-year-old design studio unveiled the stunning new collection of Indic fonts via their beautifully designed new website. Focused on expanding the design possibilities of Indic writing systems such as Devanagari, Tamil, Gujarati, Gurmukhi and Bangla, Universal Thirst’s new font…
We dive into the making of TYPEONE Magazine Issue 04 in this behind-the-scenes interview with Designers Alice Sherwin and Harry Bennett (Studio Ground Floor) and Editor-in-Chief Amber Weaver. ZLM: Firstly, why a Femme Type issue for TYPEONE #4? What about…
We asked Jonathan Bruun (DK) all about their experience as a type design intern at AllCaps. Jonathan Bruun introduces us to AllCaps (@allcapstype), a design studio focused on publishing typefaces, through his perspective and experiences as an intern. Jonathan has…
A look inside Mucho‘s bold new typography-led identity for Big C Charters. Offering hands-on fishing trips and excursions, Big C Charters is the premier charters service in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded by 6’8″ former professional basketball player Christian…
Discussing everything from NFTs to the appeal of the chrome aesthetic, David F. Costa, founder of Disruptive magazine, interviews the creative behind @chrometype, a platform for the 3D type & chrome aesthetic obsessed. Joey, also known as Modern Revolt, is…
Complete with Instagram Sans, a custom typeface by Colophon Foundry, the new brand identity aligns with Instagram’s future—giving movement, inclusivity and a new purpose. Inspired by their global community, Instagram from Meta’s brand, product and creative teams set out to…
Doménico Barreto is an independent designer based Lima, Perú, known for blending his passion for typography with cinema and music, interpreting the aesthetics of visual cultures that inspire him and reworking his findings into type designs. Leading him to stay away…
Tasked with creating a new visual identity for THIS IS SHORT, Uniforma (@uniformastudio) went with bold font pairings and kinetic typography. They reveal their process and the choices they made throughout the identity’s design. Uniforma is a visual communication studio…
Type Department‘s new fonts deliver fresh, high quality design from independent creatives & studios across the globe. Here are the latest additions on our radar (plus a few freebies). Power Grotesk New from Power Type Foundry, Power Grotesk is a…
I speak with the founder of Arabic Script Studio (@arabic_script), an Arabic branding studio and leading platform for designers in the Persian and Arab worlds. ZLM: Welcome, Mehrdad. First, can you explain what you do at Arabic Script Studio? M:…
I take a look inside Dog Ears, a new experimental typography publication by Grammy-nominated independent design studio Public-Library. Announced on the occasion of Public-Library‘s tenth anniversary, the studio’s latest publication, Dog Ears, arrives as a collection of iterative design explorations.…
The new variable font blends fresh with familiar, drawing on inspiration from mid-century industrial designers and injecting flexibility into an aesthetic of ‘deliberate conformism.’ Before putting pen to paper, Loew was a typeface that Jonathan Hill, a self-taught graphic artist…
With their new brand identity for Stompy, a personalised wine subscription service, &Walsh aim to lift the lid on the ‘stuffy’ wine world. The indentity, complete with custom type, aims to challenge the ‘stuffy’ nature of the wine buying experience…
