What comes to mind when thinking about New York? The city is commonly known as the “city of lights”, never sleeping, great fashion sense, and multiculturalism. All these known facts were translated into the kinetic-type animation campaign to open HYBEBEAST’s…
With ease in mind for both designer and client, Brandpad flexibly allows for brand identities to evolve and grow with all its parties shifting needs. Valuing function and simplicity, yet adaptable and variable – Brandpad offers designers an opportunity to embrace…
Born with the purpose of partnering with type designers from backgrounds under-represented within the industry, ALT.tf (@alt__tf) is a brand new type foundry accompanied by an international array of contemporary creative power. Founded by our sister brand Femme Type, whose…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
Blaze Type has just launched the Incarnate Collection—a new font-studded product range. We take a closer look. The new collection features a range of stunning limited edition pieces, embellished with gems from Blaze’s font collection. Including the SFTB Shirt, BLZT…
Azza Alameddine shares her approach to designing multilingual type systems with distinctive personalities. The work of Azza Alameddine, a freelance graphic and type designer who specialises in branding, lettering and Arabic typefaces, combines an experimental, curious approach to letterforms with…
