introducing: Kamil Kurzajewski

Graphic & type designer, Kamil Kurzajewski, featured my PunktK business card as a Spectra "font in use" on his new website. For more about Kamil and his works - visit kurzajewski.com

Intoducing: William Hundley

williamhundley.com

Wesley Eggebrecht

via wesleyeggebrecht.com

I ♥ you Mr. Brignell

You can't find too much information about this designer, but we all have seen his work on a daily basis. Hard to believe that one man stands behind so many recognizable logotypes!

I only found a brief review of Ian Brignell's presentation Type Club in Toronto on villatype.blogspot.com. The sentence that I was blown away by was "The most important point Ian made all night was to rough out your work fast and in multiples to get the initial gesture and energy, because you can't try and inject some energy later, it won't work" - I literally LOVE this demon (only the positive meaning) of logotype design and hand lettering.
Ian Brignell's portfolio

Introducing: Animal Collective with "My Girls" and the movie clip animated by Jon Vermilyea

Animal Collective is a musical collective originally from Baltimore, Maryland, currently based in New York City. The band members met in school and started recording together in various forms of collaboration from a young age. Records released under the name Animal Collective's tracks may include contributions from any or all of the members; the lineup is not uniform. Their music is hard to define, it sound as they experiment with diverse styles and ideas from album to album. Animal Collective on MySpace

The reason why I'm posting anything on this band is the video called "My Girls", that was brought to me by my friend Florian. I immediately fell in love with both, hypnotising tune and the clip!

I'd like to also mention the man, who animated "My Girls". Jon Vermilynea is an outstanding, New York based illustrator, animator and comic book artist. Jon Vermilynea

Animal Collective Animal Crack Box 3LP boxed setArt directed and designed by Rob Carmichael, 4 color silk screen box and LP sleeves

Beasts! Book Two, Fantagraphics Books

He-Man and the 13 Trials of Eternia, silkscreen

Introducing: Fontplore

Fontplore is an interactive application designed for searching and exploring font databases. Fontplore helps you to easily find the right typeface for your project in a collection of several thousands of fonts.(...) And the clou is: It does all that on an interactive table, using tangible objects to navigate and control actions, so the workflow is easy to understand - easy to grasp!"


via www.fontplore.org
The Fontplore application was developed by Christian Hertlein and Marcus Paeschke in summer 2009 under the supervision of Till Nagel and professor Boris Müller | design.fh-potsdam.de

Introducing: Rare Book Room

A great website, which is an amazing library of rare hi-res images of ancient books. There are few books about graphic arts as well. Have you ever seen pages of Albrecht Durer's De Symmetria... and Underweysung der Messung or Manuale Tipografico by Giambattista Bodoni?
Here's your chance

Introducing: Daily Type

Long time ago I came across a website full of creative type inspirations. Plenty hand lettering, sketches and typefaces can be found on Daily Type

"Daily Type is a creative project run by several Russian type designers. Day by day, they create original typefaces and post their results along with routine."

Introducing: Origami In the Pursuit of Perfection

Sipho Mabona is an origami artist. Origami, the ancient Japanese art of paper folding, can create stunning video commercials when combined with stop motion recording. This video, created for Asics by Sipho’s company Mabona Origami, is the world wide corperate movie that tells the story of the japanese sports brand ASICS won several international prizes. I think it's simply stunning.

Read more about making of here.

Introducing: SPECTRA and KLIMAX

I would like to Introduce you two typefaces, Spectra and Klimax. Both elaborate on quite similar concept with two different approaches. check it out!

Spectra, is a typeface family presenting a spectrum of nine weights from the lightest to heaviest. Spectra is perfect for text as well as display use. Each style includes small caps, ligatures,stylistic alternates and old style numerals. Spectra was designed by a type designer Kamil Kurzajewski in 2008.

Typotheque's Klimax is a display typeface (meant for use in extremely large sizes) with four styles and OpenType features. It includes two basic styles, Plus and Minus — the heaviest and the lightest possible styles that can be made. Klimax was designed in 2009 by Ondrej Jób.

Introducing: Karol Sliwka

There are very few people who can be easily classified as icons of Polish graphic design.There are few artists, who over the last half century have developed a visual identification systems, logos, posters, packaging and signs for such a large group of Institutions.There are very few such people as Karol Śliwka.

Karol Sliwka is one of the most celebrated graphic designers and logotypes author in Poland and Eastern Europe. He designed brandings for many Polish institutions. He still works using only pens and paper, and refuses to use computer programmes. Sliwka's graphics combine simplicity, functionality, readability, universal significance, great composition and thorough design. He also created many posters, packagings, covers and stamps. Although he's 76 years old now, he still keeps on working saying that design is his true love.



For some more tasty treats check www.karolsliwka.pl