As we continue our typography surf for this year, we take some twists and turns from the Korean Pavilion At Shanghai, to the branding remake for Chocolate … along with * Eden Martinez : Typography Illustrations * Lettering on photographs * Panos Vassiliou – PF Champion Script Pro * Typefaces give us signals, and more — continuing through October …
As we continue our typography surf for this year, we take some twists and turns from the Korean Pavilion At Shanghai, to the branding remake for Chocolate … along with * Eden Martinez : Typography Illustrations * Lettering on photographs * Panos Vassiliou – PF Champion Script Pro * Typefaces give us signals, and more — continuing through October …
Korean Pavilion At Shanghai
The Korean pavilion at Shanghai world expo 2010 wowed crowds over 400 000 per day, with exterior surfaces of the korean pavilion are clad in 2 types of pixels: han-geul pixels and art pixels. Han-geul pixels are white panels with a relief of letters in four different sizes whose combination forms the majority of the exterior, mainly the peripheral surfaces.
Mass Studies was founded in 2003 by Minsuk Cho in Seoul, Korea, as a critical investigation of architecture in the context of mass production, intensely over-populated urban conditions, and other emergent cultural niches that define contemporary society.
Full story : Mass Studies
Lettering on photographs
This series of Posters, was created by Atelier Martino & Jaca (Porto, Portugal), for the Guimaries Jazz 2009 event at the CCVF, was hand crafted with fresh, flowing hand scripting integrated with superb photoillustrations.
Visit their website at www.ateliermartinojana.com (but expect a weird interface!)
Eden Martinez : Typography Illustrations
Eden Martinez created these extraordinary illustrations using typography. There are thousands of such illustrations on the web, but this designer takes the technique to a whole new level.
Unfortunately there isn’t much info about the artist available. But check out the portfolio!
Panos Vassiliou – PF Champion Script Pro
Here’s a lovely historic essay, for this new version of a very old font. This wonderful script was revived by Panos Vassiliou … an award-winning designer who has designed dozens of very elegant fonts.
PF Champion Script Pro was developed over a period of two and a half years, each one of the 2 weights is loaded with 4253 glyphs (now 4280 glyphs), offering simultaneous support for all European languages based on the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts.
Chocolate remake
Dawid Cmok, Zabrze, Poland, created this redesign of old illustration (Spec work) using Adobe Photoshop CS 4 + render’s + Nesquik stock’s
General Mills introduced Nesquik cereal, a breakfast cereal that “turns milk into chocolate milk.”
Typefaces give us signals
Following inspiration from watching Erik Spiekermann’s Typomania video from the 80’s; music wizzard Mike Croft created his own typography anthem. Video by Michael Parson
17th Annual Fonts Surf Two
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