Type Matters!

University graphics lecturer Jim Williams' A4 Type Matters! booklet, originally created to hand to his students, has been expanded and is set to be published in April as a notebook-style 160 page, faux leather covered book.

The book sets out the basics of typography and is sure to be added to graphic design course reading lists. The first chapter deals with the history of type design, the origins of typographic terminology, type measurement, Roman type and a very helpful spread entitled The Anatomy of Letterforms which will allow readers to correctly identify a stem, crossbar, descender, terminal, tittle or bowl at a glance.

Chapter two deals with setting headlines and display type, while the third chapter (by far the longest chapter) looks at setting text - from selecting a typeface through leading, kerning, letter spacing, alignment, indicating paragraphs, hanging punctuation, hyphenation, widows and orphans, apostrophes and quotation marks, ligatures and more. In short, Type Matters! is an indispensible guide to the basics of typography that no budding graphic designer should be without.

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Graham Coxon Asks Fans To Star In New Video

For the video for his new single What'll It Take, Graham Coxon invited his fans to be the stars...
Coxon requested help via the film below, which he placed on YouTube at the beginning of February. This explained the moves that fans should record themselves making, before uploading their films to Coxon's website.

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Mockbirth EP Cover

Mockbirth is an upcoming, greek, alternative, downtempo band. Nevertheless Design was asked to design their first EP cover.

Their sound, a mixture of analogue and digital sounds, inspired us to make a parallelism between analogue-digital, nature-geometry, black-white. Due to the low budget production and limited edition of packages, we decided to make our design a little more experimental. We made mono-prints with tree trunks and leaves and combined them with a geometry pattern taken from the logo lines.The whole package consists a hand printed CD, a paper case sewn with black thread and wrapped with a two colour offset, double sided poster and sealed with white wax. The wrapping poster can after the opening be used as an actual wall poster signed and numbered by the band.

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Typographic Illustrations & Lettering by Jeff Rogers

NYC-based designer and letterer Jeff Rogers creates beautiful and playful letters and word-based illustrations. Feast your eyes on some of his hand-lettering portfolio, where his transforms words into pieces of typographic art.

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Typochocolate

Typography designs with a twist! Dynamo, based in Montreal took gourmet chocolate one step further.

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Sweet Boutique

A little while ago, La Tortillería had the opportunity to work on a really "sweet" project. A gourmet style bakery that created exquisite treats with the finest ingredients and deliciously amazing flavours. For this project, we created the entire brand identity of the boutique, logo, stationery, and the packaging materials.

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Siraya Harvest Series Packaging

Siraya Harvest 2011 presents the best farm goods from the Siraya National Scenic Area, thus the packaging concept is about creating a treasure chest that can protects and carry these treasured farm goods to more and further places so more people are able to enjoy the "treasure" that Siraya has to offer. Using uncoated cardboards that can be attached without adhesive, and two hot foiled sides, this packaging has also taken material conversation into consideration for gift box type packaging.

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A Beast Every Week: Cool Creature Designs and Illustrations

The design and illustration bestiary collective is organised by Seattle-based designer and illustrator Ellis Latham-Brown. Each Monday a new illustration is added from different artists, visualising a "beast, creature, monster, etc. from their own unique perspective.

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Concept Packaging: Heineken

Heineken and WAMP made an exclusive tender, and invited 5 designers to design a unique bottle concept. These 2 meter high models designed by KISSMIKLOS were presented in the WAMP design fair.

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Pixelated Pop-Up Heart

Kate at mini-eco shared a fun Valentine's Day card tutorial over at her blog. With a little crafty precision, the Pixel Pop-Up card will surely please that special geek in your life.

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Tea Bar

Tea Bar is an Amsterdam based tea shop where you can select, mix and drink your own blend of loose leaf tea. They wanted to  create a pack for their most favorite and special blends of loose leaf tea. These included new names and images to reflect the individual character of each tea blend. Colourful sleeves for the tin containers to slide in and larger sleeves for the female, male and green collection.

The result is a perfect give-a-way or keep-it-yourself

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