Type Worship is the official blog of 8 Faces magazine. Featuring inspirational typography, beautiful lettering, reviews, interviews with leading designers, and exclusive content from the coveted bi-annual publication. Curated by Jamie Clarke with Elliot Jay Stocks.
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Valentine’s day idea?
Not only is the lettering beautiful — that split ‘Type’ — but I’m loving the soft indentation on the ‘spongy’ paper and the depth of colour from this scarlet ink.
This limited edition letterpress print might make a nice gift…
OK yes, I just convinced myself and bought one.
Beautiful lettering poster by Ken Barber, printed by The Aesthetic Union. You could buy a copy here and learn more about the process on Ken’s blog post.
Neo-Retro lettering
After writing about Paul Thurlby’s alphabet letters a few months ago, Paul got in touch and I had the opportunity to ask him to describe some of his lettering work:
The Making Future Magic illustration was a promotional piece for Dentsu London [huge advertising agency, founded in Japan]. They chose a number of illustrators to come up with their own interpretations of the phrase.
Boooom was personal work. I was trying to make the image using the word itself.
Modest Artistic Genius was a self advertisement. Originally, I wanted to just say ‘Artistic Genius’, but I knew I couldn’t get away with that. So, it was just something a bit tongue in cheek that, somehow, putting ‘modest’ in front of such a statement makes it alright, plays it down a little!
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Unidentified street art
There is definitely something alluring about this doodle. A snap taken by Stephen Coles in Clerkenwell, London. “Depth, flow, invention, intrigue, likability, its got it all”
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3 years later, I keep coming back to this street art I found in London. I still don’t know what it says or how it was made, and I still love it.
Nice ‘P&P’ sign, lit with coloured bulbs. (Taken with Instagram in a Pitcher & Piano pub, London )
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What a year it’s been: Approaching 20,000 Tumblr followers and over 300 posts.
Thank you to all who have followed, ‘liked’ and reposted.
Here’s a top ten round-up of my favourite and most popular posts:
Feb 2012: Typography Sketchbooks: A review of the reviews
Jan 2012: Eureka Tower, 3D Car Park Signage
Dec 2011: Yulia Brodskaya:Paper Typography
Nov 2011: Dominique Falla:We are all a part of the same thing
Oct 2011: Hand Eye:Letterpress stationary
Aug 2011: Laser decks:Etched skateboards
July 2011:Mathematical Typography, 20 millions lines of colour
Sept 2011:London Loves Letters,Household typography
May 2011: Type Worship:Blue ligature No.1
April 2011: Clothing labels:Fashion or Graphic design?
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Friendly character logo of the furniture company: Actiu (Taken with Instagram at Clerkenwell)
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Letterpress poster spotted on Exmouth Market, Clerkenwell, London.
Old Ampersand woodblock printing
At the St. Bride printing workshops yesterday I had the opportunity to print some wonderful mismatched ampersands from their historic collection using one of their Vandercook Pre-Presses.
Now some of these large woodblocks are well over 100 years old so despite packing out the paper and adjusting for the slight printing height differences, two of the blocks had sunken deeply in the middle leaving a void on the print.
See more on the St. Bride Library “The world’s foremost printing and graphic arts Library”
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A colourful, ‘modular’ headline typeface by Studio8 Design. An agency based around the corner from me in Clerkenwell (London).
“A typeface designed for Wired. Used throughout the magazine and iPad app for chapter headers the typeface can be coloured in numerous ways in order to suit the page it sits on.”
