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Typism Book 5 – Call for Entries

The Typism movement originated as a series of annual conferences focussed on type, lettering and calligraphy. Held on Australia’s picturesque Gold Coast, I had the pleasure of speaking at one of them a few years ago, which was fantastic. To accompany each event was a book featuring some of the best type work from around the world was produced. The publication is now embarking on its 5th edition and you have the chance to showcase your work to the world.

Every year, we are inspired by our global community and bring together some of the world’s best hand lettering, calligraphy, and typography, in a beautiful black and white book.We have published four editions of the Typism book so far and showcased the work of over 800 international lettering artists since 2013.

Submit your work: https://typismbook.com/

Shovel Knight Drop Caps

I was approached by the epic new gaming magazine, A Profound Waste of Time to design a set of twelve drop caps and a variety of decorative motifs for to as part of their limited edition first edition.

The drop caps were inspired by medieval woodblock prints and depict characters and key items from the cult classic game Shovel Knight by Yacht Club Games.

The brief was to visually translate the reduced bitmap style of the game’s elements into their rich woodblock equivalents while remaining faithful to the original characteristics. The illustrations were drawn around a set of letters I designed in the style of 16th century initials.

The designs were also shortlisted to feature in Typism Book 4.

See more lettering and Typography at Jamie Clarke Type

Playing with Letters

A little while ago I posted about illusionary lettering, drawings that made text look like you could grab hold of it. Well, Swiss artist Rylsee, aka Cyril Vouilloz, designs letters that appear as though they already have been grabbed, or poked, blown, squeezed, pulled…

Based in Berlin, Cyril has exhibited his dimensional busting letters all over the globe. He’s now playing with augmented reality designs (see his instagram) so I’m sure we’ll see the boundaries of 3D lettering  blur even further.

He’s even written a book about, How to Play with Letters

Take the survey and get 15 free fonts from Monotype

MyFonts, Adobe Typekit and several other type companies are conducting annual research about the type industry and sharing it publicly to benefit the design community! 

Participate in this font purchasing habits survey and Monotype will send you 15 fonts for free. Handy fonts like Americana, Neue Plak and Trade Gothic Display are included (only a single style in each family though).

Ends 20th June.

Using 3D type to grab attention

Last week Creative Bloq published my article on how to energise your designs with fonts that leap from the page.

The post covers, pairing 3D fonts with text fonts, customising them and where best to use them. Read the full piece.


In related news, my own 3D typeface,  Rig Shaded, has won a Platinum Type Design award, from New York based, Graphis.

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The innovative typeface, along with it’s energetic sibling, Rig Solid is also available on Adobe Typekit. If you have an Adobe CC account, sync them free for desktop and web.

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Type Treasure

Over on TYPE Magazine’s blog, Paul Barnes explores a few of the hidden gems of the St. Bride Library, London in a article, The Treasure of St. Bride—Part II.

The concise article takes a look at a few of the punches, matrices, the molds that London’s preeminent type foundries used to create printing type between the 18th to the 20th centuries.  

Paul is a partner in Commercial Type and a trustee of St. Bride Library. 

You can also read about St. Bride’s unique collection of decorative Pouchée alphabets, here on Type Worship.

Typography in Virtual Reality — The New Wild WestToday sees the launch of The Recorder Issue 5, packed with articles on typography and type design, spanning over 100 pages.
One of the features has been published on the Monotype blog, called The... High-res

Typography in Virtual Reality — The New Wild West

Today sees the launch of The Recorder Issue 5, packed with articles on typography and type design, spanning over 100 pages. 

One of the features has been published on the Monotype blog, called The Virtual Frontier by Angela Riechers, Illustrated by Bráulio Amado. 

It explores how typography might behave in a 3D environment, where a viewer could effectively see letterforms from a variety of angles. All the text we see currently lives on flat 2D surfaces, so how might it function in relatively simple scenarios where there are variable distances, angles and movement?

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With interviews from several industry experts the article paints a clear picture of an emerging environment screaming for typographic exploration and innovation.

For more thought provoking articles, order a copy of The recorder here.

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