Twirk Ethic

Letman (Job Wouters) has some great illustrative and hand-lettered work in his portfolio. It’s refreshing to see that many of his projects do not contain any digitally-rendered typefaces. I also really like the video project, ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ, in which Wouters has a lettering session with his nephew. It’s really interesting to see how children interpret the letters that they see.

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Experimental Jetset is an incredible design studio in Amsterdam. Most of us recognize their work from Gary Hustwit’s documentary, Helvetica. This podcast, filmed at The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, reveals the backgrounds of the designers and some of the processes behind some of their iconic pieces (I had no idea that Experimental Jetset was behind the John&Paul&Ringo&George t-shirt designs until I saw this lecture).

Download the podcast from iTunes.

I’ve never actually heard any of The Chariot’s music, but I recently saw that the band members are hand-stamping the art onto their new album, Wars And Rumors of Wars. They’ll also be signing and numbering each of the 25,000 copies. This is a great way to reach their fans and give incentive to go out and actually buy the CD. Plus, the texture created by the process of stamping gives makes the design look as if it were printed in an old newspaper, which plays nicely off of the album title.

Watch the video of the stamping process.

Via Heavy Eyes.

The Smithsonian Institution Libraries site has a beautiful collection of Czech Book covers from the 20’s and 30’s. Many of the books feature hand-drawn type and those books which utilize set type retain a human quality about them.

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Norton & Sons, Savile Row Bespoke tailors, were recently given a facelift by Moving Brands. The result is a visual combination of century-old craftsmanship and powerful contemporary graphic application. The BBC even did a short documentary on the re-brand.

Evening Tweed is a collective comprised of four graduates from the University of Brighton. They have an outstanding body of work. I particularly like the On The Road book cover by Jez Burrows.

This collection of cassette tape inserts on Flickr is a great reference for 70’s and 80’s design vernacular.

Via The Ministry of Type.

Animals are most often the subjects of Mark Weaver’s contributions to the Make Something Cool Everyday thread on the YayHooray site. The engraved print look really adds to the narrative of these illustrations, which I think are quite fantastic.

Lately, I’ve been seeing really great letterpress prints popping up left and right. After seeing StudioOnFire’s blog, I’ve officially caught the letterpress bug. A lot of great designers have used SOF’s services, so their portfolio shows plenty of great possibilities within the medium. I personally like how bold typefaces look when letterpressed. Pictured above is a one color invite by Eight Hour Day.

Via FFFFOUND!

Olly Moss is a UK based designer / illustrator with an incredibly clever perspective on pop culture. The design style is minimal and concept-driven.

Via Fubiz.