Type and Graphics

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Wood type love

Today my lovely friend Anna, who runs the homemade food blog Hungry Hollowaiians and knows how much I love my type, brought to my attention the brilliant initiative that is the Wood Type Revival website. A graphic design project based in Pittsburgh and run by designers Matt Braun and Matt Griffin, Wood Type Revival was born [...]

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My Type of New York

While the emblematic typeface of New York is, without a doubt, Hoefler and Frere-Jones‘ epic Gotham (of which the design process is now detailed in an excellent video in the MoMA’s Standard Deviations exhibition), there are literally thousands of shop fronts and murals worth looking at across the city. Whether it’s in historical Greenwich Village, [...]

A warm welcome

A warm welcome

Well, the daunting first post. Where to start? Since my hard drive died last week, I can’t publish my latest free typeface just yet (next week!). So for now – “a warm welcome” with my new favourite brush script typeface Bello Pro, published by the very talented  folk over at Underware.