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BlockFace: an open-source stamp kit to explore typography by graphic artist Will Mower

Creative Boom

If you're a digital native, you may have grown up without ever interacting with physical type. We spend so much time working in digital nowadays it's hard to remember that for hundreds of years, typography was a purely physical medium. BlockFace is a stamp kit designed to help you explore typography and more.

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Northern Block shares its love for the marker pen with new experimental typeface, Hubsch

Creative Boom

There's no point in just being wacky just for the sake of it, though: there has to be an underlying, original idea or goal if you want to push typography forward. Neither hand-drawn nor digital components dominate; they occupy the same space as piano keys. And here's a project that fits right into that wheelhouse.

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TRAME’s “RIFLESSI” Encourages Artists to Create in Digital + Physical Spaces

Design Milk

“ TRAME is dedicated to empowering artists and designers to express their creative visions seamlessly in both digital and physical realms,” Ismail Tazi, Founder and CEO of TRAME shared. “From day one, our focus has been on crafting high-end pieces in collaboration with talented artists.”

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Bauhaus Typography at 100

Creative Review

German typographer, designer, teacher, and writer Jan Tschichold cited the first Bauhaus exhibition as directly leading him to forge a more experimental way of working with letterforms that was also simple and practical; and he went on to lay out his principles in seminal book Die Neue Typographie (The New Typography).

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Class of 2022: A guide to all the UK's graduate shows this summer

Creative Boom

Left to right: Billy Paterson (Communication Design Y3), Jihye Baek (MFA 2022), Fleur Connor (Painting and Printmaking 2022), Sophie Ammann, Leonie Hiller (Communication Design 2022). So we've brought together all the best physical and digital shows for you to enjoy this summer. Students at Glasgow School of Art.

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Best Halftones Brushes, Textures and Effects for Photoshop and Illustrator

Graphic Design Junction

In the realm of digital design, harnessing the power of halftones requires the right tools – and that’s where the magic of best halftones brushes , textures, and effects for Photoshop and Illustrator comes into play. Alternative Printmaker 11. You may be interested in the following related articles as well. Halftone Textures 14.

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35 Examples of Vintage and Retro Typography You Need to See

Shillington

Here, we’re going to delve deep and dig out some of the most interesting vintage typography, all of which can inspire designers or even be used in your designs today. Skip forward again to 1890 when things start up again and typography started to become what we know of today. Examples of Vintage Typography. 3 (USA, 1983).