Typographica

JUNE 26, 2025

Prev Post → Commentary Jim Parkinson, 1941–2025 Written by Stephen Coles on June 26, 2025 Jim Parkinson — lettering artist, type designer, and painter — died today at his home in Oakland, California, after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s. He is survived by his wife, the book artist Dorothy A.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 16, 2022

What Artists Wear by Charlie Porter. On the one hand, there's a long-running stereotype of artists and bohemians wearing black, featureless clothing. What Artists Wear by Charlie Porter. Black Artists in British Art: A History since the 1950s by Eddie Chambers. I Paint What I Want to See by Philip Guston.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 14, 2023

Founded in 2004, Ell Circo D'ell Fuego had become a successful circus school, but its branding looked a little dated. We also needed to balance an artistic and creative sensibility with accessibility to a diverse audience." Local studio We Make stepped in to craft a dynamic new visual identity for the studio.

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Colossal

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The Cleveland-born artist created a sleek flipbook machine while he was a student at the Royal College of Art back in 2004 and has since crafted myriad designs featuring birds and insects that fly around the small, metallic frame. Follow the artist’s projects on Instagram. ?.

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Colossal

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The Cleveland-born artist created a sleek flipbook machine while he was a student at the Royal College of Art back in 2004 and has since crafted myriad designs featuring birds and insects that fly around the small, metallic frame. Follow the artist’s projects on Instagram. ?.

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Design You Trust

MARCH 1, 2021

Inspired by nature and animals and “driven by emotions and curiosity,” Italian artist Roberto Rizzo, who is now based in southern Spain, paints extremely detailed animal portraits on an unusual canvas—rocks. Roberto Rizzo has been painting on rocks since 1996. More: Roberto Rizzo , Instagram , Etsy h/t: boredpanda. ”

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 24, 2024

It contains pieces that date back to 2004 and will explore themes of "collective unconsciousness, synchronicity, and archetypal phenomena," as well as references to Wabi-Sabi aesthetic concepts to create a unique narrative. Spanning over 20 years and featuring over 57 paintings, this display also includes new, specially commissioned works.

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Colossal

AUGUST 26, 2024

Image © Beth Moon, courtesy of the artist, shared with permission Spanning 3,500 years of art, science, culture, and history, Tree: Exploring the Arboreal World surveys the awe-inspiring beauty and romance of trees. Beth Moon, “Heart of the Dragon” (2010), archival pigment inks on cotton paper, 32 × 48 inches.

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UX Collective

JUNE 1, 2021

Thousands of pieces of art are available for everyone with a decent internet connection [link] Artists, whether they’re experienced or amateurs can then use any of these mediums to jump back hundreds of years in history and thousands of miles across the globe to see what’s out there. I’m specifically intrigued by digital products for now.

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Design Wizard

APRIL 16, 2019

For this reason, this post brings you some of the best graphic design artists from 2019. This influential designer, art director and lettering artist has all the multinational acronyms flocking to his door. Joshua doesn’t confine his art to the page and often favours the concert stages of world-famous artists to showcase his work.

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Inkbot Design

AUGUST 31, 2023

Since their inception in 2010 and 2004, respectively, they have carved distinct niches while also overlapping in critical areas. Whether travel photography or artistic sketches, Instagram empowers individuality through visual media. Users carefully curate their profiles and select images that convey their personalities and interests.

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“Animal Farm” & the Evolution of the Dust Jacket

Thinking Design

MAY 6, 2019

After World War I, publishers began to employ commercial artists to design attractive dust jackets. Penguin published this cover in 2004. Obviously “Animal Farm” is a well-known story by 2004, the publisher appears to feel that selling it with the conclusion on the cover is a viable strategy. Cut to the chase.

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Thinking Design

MAY 6, 2019

After World War I, publishers began to employ commercial artists to design attractive dust jackets. Penguin published this cover in 2004. Obviously “Animal Farm” is a well-known story by 2004, the publisher appears to feel that selling it with the conclusion on the cover is a viable strategy. Cut to the chase.

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UX Collective

JANUARY 19, 2022

Adobe Photoshop is widely used by designers, graphic artists, photographers, and creative professionals. Fortune Magazine listed Nokia 7280 as one of the best products of 2004. Flexible products come with significant costs in terms of complexity, usability, adoption time, and investment requirements.

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Azure Magazine

APRIL 4, 2023

Though the photographs reflect my personal and artistic perspective, they reveal Stelco Tower’s importance in Hamilton, while also documenting the city in the midst of transformation. Then in 2004, fighting bankruptcy, Stelco moved its remaining office employees from the Tower. In another, it was my chance to champion it.

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Creative Review

MARCH 13, 2020

While there are some parallels to be made with the 20th century Mexican artist, with Pelizer’s work also favouring exaggerated forms, he avoids the grotesque faces of Botero and his work overall feels cleaner and sharper due to his love of 3D. cesarpelizer.co.uk.

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Inkbot Design

JULY 15, 2023

Trefoil and Wordmark Logo (1997-2004): In 1997 Adidas updated its logo by incorporating the company name below the trefoil. Three Bars Logo (2004-2013): As part of a brand overhaul in 2004, Adidas introduced a new logo called the “Three Bars.” The trefoil symbolised the brand's heritage in athletic footwear.

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Inkbot Design

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Choosing lowercase letters made Facebook more accessible, less formal, and stuffier than older tech titans in 2004. Expect branding experiments with QR codes, NFT artist remixes, 3D holographic animation, virtual interactivity and cryptographic verification playing to decentralisation themes. Could logos soon adapt to Web 3.0

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Inkbot Design

AUGUST 15, 2024

The Elements of Typographic Style Bringhurst, Robert (Author) English (Publication Language) 352 Pages – 09/27/2004 (Publication Date) – Hartley and Marks Publishers (Publisher) $62.29 “Steal Like an Artist” by Austin Kleon I understand what you’re probably thinking. Isn’t that bad?”

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UX Collective

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The trend was popularized by an artistic movement of the 1960s, everyone knows Mies van der Rohe’s expression: “less is more”. © Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, by SIAE 2020 Pollock does not know what he is painting. For many artists, color in particular is the preferred vehicle for emotions.

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Shillington

OCTOBER 12, 2021

At 17 years old, it was founded in 2004, it is the youngest of the graphic design schools on our list, but this doesn’t mean it’s not one of the best graphic design colleges in Florida. Similarly to Miami International, The Art Institute of Tampa has a Graphic and Web Design course as part of its Visual Design offering.

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Inkbot Design

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Adobe's logo is a testament to its enduring influence in the creative industry, illustrating its dedication to enabling artistic expression and digital design. Logos with the Letter F Facebook Facebook is a social media company founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and fellow Harvard students.

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Canny

JULY 8, 2021

For that reason, website builders are ideal for agencies, artists, restaurants, and other user types looking to build image-rich sites fast. It was founded by Anthony Casalena in 2004 and allows users to take advantage of pre-built website templates and drag and drop elements. Squarespace.

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 9, 2024

Buy on Amazon Steal Like an Artist From Picasso to Tarantino, all great creatives are masters at stealing and remixing influences to fuel their original work. Austin Kleon’s Steal Like an Artist is a fun, unorthodox look at the creative process that encourages sampling ideas and inspiration from others.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 13, 2023

The Life of a Drone Day 8, 2023 © Stacy Leigh New York artist Stacy Leigh is getting her first showing in Hong Kong with Escape to B-roll, which reimagines the American Dream in vividly colourful fashion. A self-taught artist, she describes her style as grounded in narrative. "I We chat with her to learn more.

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Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

JULY 11, 2017

I wasn’t just thinking about formal calligraphy — Renaissance writing masters, for example, who could move effortlessly from one hand to another — but also contemporary artists who use letterforms in their work. For those of you who don’t know Gorey’s work, you’re in for a treat.

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Inkbot Design

AUGUST 4, 2023

With so many real estate agents using similar photos of houses and generic icons like keys or rooftops, a unique and artistic logo can help a brokerage or agent stand apart. Since launching in 2004, the red roof logo has become an identifiable brand image for Redfin.

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Canny

AUGUST 25, 2022

Founded in 1882, the college has been an educational cornerstone in Cleveland, Ohio, producing a range of studio artists, designers, photographers, contemporary craftsmen, and educators through their extensive programmes. The Cleveland Institute of Art is one of the country’s leading, independent colleges of art and design.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Elsewhere, the mag steps inside the world of fashion via interviews with both Depop and digital artist Stephy Fung, who is expanding the possibilities of the industry in the virtual space. Why it inspires: It's always up-to-date with the latest trends and provides critical insights, making it essential reading for forward-thinking designers.

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Eye on Design

DECEMBER 1, 2021

During the ’80s and ’90s, Beastie Boys were unrivalled when it came to their visual identity, which was cool, surreal, artistic, and hilarious all at the same time. It wasn’t the work of one man exactly, but Adam Yauch, aka MCA, certainly drove that artistic vision. . To the 5 Boroughs (2004) . Beastie Boys, To The 5 Boroughs.

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Design You Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

According to an artist: “My friends used to call me ‘Mods’ Prefix ‘Mod-‘ stuck to me because I like to modify, customize everything. I’m into graphic arts since 2004, after i quit working with PC hardware in my youth. I prefer more artistic, atmospheric designs. Exellent lettering!

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Design You Trust

AUGUST 6, 2021

I moved to Los Angeles in 2004 but spent most of my 20s dicking around and not pushing myself to do anything beyond drinking and hanging out. . “I majored in film and television in college, with a minor in theater, so the idea of storytelling and performing, in a any capacity, was always a desire of mine.

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Shillington

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Dan is a graphic artist and designer, with a love for smileys, nature and t-shirts. Nick, who’s been working under the name Narcsville for around the last 18 years, is a multi hyphenate—an art director, graphic designer, collage artist and screenprinter. My role is flexible depending on the needs of the artist.

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Shillington

MAY 11, 2020

Designed by Oswald Bruce Cooper, a lettering artist from Chicago, Cooper Black is a ultra bold serif typeface, used predominantly for display. Bravour’s designer German-born Martin Jacoby-Boy was a renaissance man; training as a carpenter and practising as a painter and graphic artist before turning his attention to typefaces.

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Inkbot Design

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

This honour, the highest award given to artists by the United States government, was granted to Glaser for his enormous impact on American design. Earlier in his career, in 2004, Glaser was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum.

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Shillington

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

They are dedicated to making exploring, discovering and buying the best creative supplies and design-led stationery easy for graphic designers, architects, artists, fashionistas, enthusiasts and students. Based in Covent Garden, London Graphic Centre has been serving the UK’s design and arts communities since 1973. The Journal Shop.

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Inkbot Design

JULY 1, 2022

They were all designed by different artists, at different times, with different budgets, and in different styles. The Blizzard visual identity is based on the nameplate, which looks artistic and creative due to the typeface used. World of Warcraft is one of the world's most popular MMORPG video games, released in 2004.

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