Last week we published our 10th Wallpaper of the Week. It was an awesome typography design from Ginger Monkey Design called Compassion. What I really liked about that design was how they mixed some "frilly bits" with the typeface to create an outstanding piece of work. I decided to create a tutorial showing how to do that as well.
I'm a sucker for conspiracy theories. UFOs, JFK, X-Files (lol), the September 11th. But, how about one of the greatest conspiracy theories ever along with an awesome typography video? Yeah, that's how cool it is.
Fiodor Sumkin is a guy that actually knows how to go beyond with typography. His words show us an amazing creativity with shapes and a lot of harmony between fonts and elements within his design.
We don't get to see much of how to make cool fonts from scratch but at Sam Alfano's there's a whole section about it! Pretty cool site, pretty cool tips, like this one.
Vintage, vintage, vintage. Yes!! We're getting an overload of it!!! So, how do you like Sovietic poster design? If you are a sucker for it, I bet you'll really like these!
This is a really cool set of 26 types created inspired by animals. The author is Jeremy Pettis. The end result is brilliant. However if you want to know how he did that I recommend you a visit to his flickr account. There are lots of photos showing drawings and ideas from his creative process.
In this post I will show you how we created the crazy Zagora's logo. I will skip the drawing parts, yes there were tons of drawings before going to the computer, because when they stole my computer and backups in 2006 they took all my photos of the drawings.
When you are a designer you have to think about a lot of things, contrast, balance, alignments, imagery, and typography. For me the whole design is all about typography. Not only typefaces, but their use and what you can do playing with them.
In 2006 we renewed the brand of our company, Zee. One of our goals was to create a really unique typeface, I mean a custom face that couldn't be bought or easily found. Thinking about that we had two options: modify an existing typeface or create one from the scratch.