Brian Jackson is a freelance brand designer living in Los Angeles. With 34 years of professional experience, he has recently undertaken the challenge of creating a brand refinement for Universal Pictures, and throughout his years on the scene, he’s gathered…
“I think writing systems must flow with their languages, like rivers,” says Juan Casco (@juancascofonts), the Ecuadorian type designer, graphic designer and researcher behind the creation of the Silabario Amazonico (@silabarioamazonico) writing system. Created to support and uplift the communication of…
Through the fusion of kinetic type and installation, Geneva-based Multidisciplinary Designer Leo Monnet (@monnet_leo) has been offering a fresh perspective on the environmental impact of our “addiction to concrete” in urban growth. The installation creates a comment not only on…
In celebration of the world’s writing systems, Brazilian Designer Filipe Peregrino (@filiperegrino) has been fusing multi-script type with augmented reality to create a one of a kind exhibition. Entitled The Languages Around Us, the exhibition highlights the diversity of typography,…
Approached by Michele Salati at branding agency Ogilvy Hong Kong, Daniel Brokstad was tasked with creating a series of multidisciplinary type-based posters for the new WPP Campus – Foundry 852. The project eventually led him to fuse type with everything…
Dedicated to the remembrance of his late grandmother, Taiwan-based freelance Graphic Designer Shun-Zhi Yang (楊順志) has created a project entitled The Buddhist Sutra Reconstruction, which merges traditionally inspired scriptures with performance-based elements to reimagine ancient Chinese typographic practices and spiritual elements…
In recent years Augmented Reality (AR) has made its way into our everyday – albeit in small, relatively ubiquitous ways (think Snapchat/Instagram filters). However, its presence in graphic design is still relatively quiet. Although many creatives are integrating the technology…
Egyptian freelance Graphic Designer Ibrahim Hamdi (@ibrohamdi) has recently been creating a series Arabic 3D type infused with the sensibilities of digital art trends. Exploring the “modernism of Arabic lettering mixed with abstract 3D art,” he says he’s been using…
Dana Chan (@canofdanchan) is a queer non-binary disabled East Asian femme. Their creative work is delivered through bright colours and vibrant shapes which collect to create, as they say, “artistic commentary on being anxious, disabled and constantly filled with existential…
Since its beginnings in 2016, Type.Today has been hosting a small collection of contemporary typefaces with high-quality Cyrillic letters which “reflect the visual language of the present and the near future.” Publishing fonts created by designers and studios globally, although…
When we first encountered Gabrielle Widjaja’s (@gentle.oriental) “We Are Still Here” project, a zine built on crowdsourced content from Asian and Asian diasporic communities, we were blown away. Intended to offer a moment of pause, a balm, and a sense…
We bring you an artifact of our fast-moving, motion-filled kinetic typography culture, designed to transform the way you engage with printed matter. Focusing on kinetic (moving) type, Issue 02 speculates on the motion-filled design world of the present (and future),…
In this series of Chinese typographic posters, Syuan Yun (@sythewoman) has been flexing her capabilities in typography—as well as the potential of the characters themselves—to explore the resonances between Chinese type and the culture, aesthetics and visual languages of Taiwan.…
It goes without saying that good web design is central to brand communications, and in a sporadically locked-down world, it’s become even more essential. So today, we’re speaking to Helsinki-based Designer and Art Director Marina Veziko – the creative behind…
Recycling found materials and trash into energetic, explorative typographic collages, Milan Doctor is a 21 year old designer originally from Hamburg, now based in Kiel. He studies Communication Design at the Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design (MKH), and…
