“The internationally acclaimed typographer and type designer was known as someone who stepped outside the box. The ‘beauty of imperfection’ that he pursued taught us to look at the obvious” writes NRC Handelsblad’s Kester Freriks in the event of Gerrit Noordzij’s passing earlier this month. Born in Rotterdam on 2 April 1931, the Dutch typographer, …
This year’s Tokyo TDC Annual Awards 2022 -the international graphic design competition focusing on the visual representation of written language through type design and typography-, attracted a total of 3,644 entries at this year’s annual competition. 1,788 creatives from Japan and 1,856 from overseas submitted their work claiming the TDC Tokyo Grand Prize trophy.Following rigorous screening by the …
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What the future looks like? Answers aplenty, this year’s 2022 Type Trends Lookbook: The New Normal aims to lead designers and brands in the complexity of the historical moment we live in. The publication, a research of over 300 pages, features 140 related images and 38 matching typefaces to highlight the latest insights into the …
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Type can -and will- save lives. Fifty-three years after Bed-In, Yoko Ono stages a new global intervention by pausing commercial advertisements on the world’s most prominent digital screens to share a message of peace with the global community. An invitation for the world to unite, Ono will broadcast her powerful, universal mantra IMAGINE PEACE every …
Type to the rescue: Yoko Ono, Matt Willey, type.today against the war Read More »
Parachute® has announced an epic new variable version of the iconic DIN, which delivers for the first time, a limitless number of styles within the most extreme design spectrum ever. “The landscape of visual communication is changing with a fast pace and this new release redefines DIN in order to handle the demands of modern …
DIN Max: A must evolution of an iconic type design Read More »
N-E aka the Madrid-based media agency studio that is constantly evolving but never betray its focus “on contemporary visual culture through a strong base on concepts that generates their own language” developed a unique publication for ADG Laus Awards aka the flagship of one of the most active professional associations, ADG-FAD. “We developed the MagaBook …
Created during the Vietnam War blood-soaked era, a time during which a large and probably yet not well-known number of war crimes committed by both sides including theft, arson, property destruction, rape, massacres of civilians, bombings of civilian targets, terrorism, the widespread use of torture, and the murder of prisoners of war, Herb Lubalin’s “No …
No More War! These are Avant Garde’s timeless antiwar winning poster designs Read More »
Known for his diverse body of work, and lasting influence on American visual culture, the cofounder of the internationally recognized and critically acclaimed Push Pin Studios, Seymour Chwast has developed and refined his innovative approach to design over the course of six decades. A master of historical styles and movements, the Bronx-born Chwast “led a …
War on war: time to revisit Seymour Chwast’s ongoing design advocacy for peace Read More »
The TOPAFF project still goes strong! Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the 2021 ranking of the year’s 100 “most beautiful music festival posters” in France is published jointly on Gonzaï and Dure Vie and as usual the originality, the core idea, the execution of it, the poster’s actual visual impact via graphic design, illustration or type are …
TOPAFF 2021: the year’s 100 French music festival posters mixtape released Read More »
Writer/director James Gunn’s new “The Suicide Squad” spinoff “Peacemaker” successfully debuted on HBO Max last month, famously introducing yet another of the filmmaker’s iconic, buzz-worthy, music-driven title sequences. In this latest pairing with the creatives and producers from one-stop cross-media production company Sarofsky, star John Cena’s Peacemaker character performs a show-stopping dance number with his co-stars, …