Typography: Leaf Type

"Leaf Type" by Mei Linn Chan

Posters: Avengers Typography

Avengers Typography by Jotunn Blue

Posters: Marveletica

"Marveletica" by Benjamin Thomas Johnson

A typeface inspired by Marvel and Helvetica

Illustration: Typographical Blue Birds

Typographical Blue Birds by Petros Afshar

Lecture: The History of the Ampersand

The History of the Ampersand by xperpetualmotion

This vlogger is a bit overwhelming in her enthusiasm, but she offers some interesting bits of trivia regarding the ampersand character.

Posters: Chartis Graphein

"Chartis Graphein" by Nancy McCabe
20" x 29" Letterpressed Typographic World Map
Available for purchase through Etsy. US$150

Constellations of white ink on black paper create a world of typography so mesmerizing you’ll have to be careful not to get lost.

Typography: Cosmic Sans

“Cosmic Sans” by Brad McNally

Designer and space enthusiast Brad McNally had a dream, and he sent that dream out into the world on Twitter: “I want to make an awesome version of Comic Sans called Cosmic Sans.” People read this tweet and got excited. So Brad’s wife (and owner of Constellation & Co.) Sara McNally set out to plan this thing! We sent out a call for entries and filled our roster in under 48 hours. We were inspired to organize this show by other rad collaborative projects like The Everywhere Project, The Momentus Project, and 50 and 50.

Typography: Bike to life

"Bike to life" by Toormix, 2012

Papercraft: Paper Typography

Paper Typography by Indian artist Sabeena Karnik

Merchandise: Comic Book Letters

Hand Made Comic Letters by Sophia Flocken

Available for purchase from Etsy. Letters US$20 / Full sets US$70

Video: Young digging Old

"Young digging Old" Calligraffiti by Niels Show Meulman

Niels Shoe Meulman is filmed while making the 'Young Digging Old' logo. This logo was made for a Jumpstart Jr. project. Young musical talent was challenged to come up with their dream concert. Tim Mintiens made this film.

Typography: New works from Seb Lester

New works from Seb Lester

London type designer Seb Lester talks about his calligraphy and shows off two new prints. He has created typefaces and type illustrations for some of the world's biggest companies, publications and events, including the likes of Apple, Nike, Intel, The New York Times, The 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics and JD Salinger's final reissue of The Catcher in the Rye.

Link Round-Up: October 30, 2012

The Horror Icon Alphabet by Mike Boon

Prints and more available for purchase at Redbubble and Society6.

30 WordPress tutorials for designers

Browse the Behance Network based on Pantone Colors.

Love the new Holstee Greeting Cards which are based on their popular Manifesto Poster. 

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New York (MTA) has been posting some fascinating photos on Flickr showing empty transportation terminals that were closed yesterday in preparation of Hurricane Sandy.  They should be renting the space out to student film makers to shoot short films while they're not in use.

Spell out your custom message with this personalized banner using re-useable letters. Includes 100 multicolored letters with spacers, links, and hanging strings. Oh, the possiblities!

Trailer for Herman Miller’s wonderful Why Design series of interviews with designers.

Video: ABC of Monsters

ABC of Monsters by La Pompadour

Typography: HALO Portrait

HALO Type Portrait by Evan Travelstead

Typography: Sony Music Timeline

Sony Music Timeline

The Sony Music Timeline celebrates 125 years of musical history covering almost 150 square meters of wall space in Sony’s Derry Street headquarters. Using just CNC cut vinyl as the sole medium, 54 columns measuring over 2 meters tall cover feature nearly 1000 of Sony Music's signed artists from 1887 to the present day.
Emma Pike, VP Industry Relations, who commissioned the piece said, “The brief was to bring the inspiration of our music into the heart of our building and make our office space live and breathe our incredible musical legacy. Alex’s beautiful graphics and illustrations do exactly that.”

Typography: Experiment Sketch

Experiment Sketch by Chaithawat Dongcharoaen

"Concept is transformation of robots that has many different bodies of modification. This is transformation of robots that has many different bodies of modification. Get inspired from robot toy.Tools is Pencil rotring pro ,Pixma micron 0.1 ,Rotring technical set ,Eraser ,ruler then duration of work 4 days."

Typography: Tolkien Quote

Tolkien Typography by jss743

Available for purchase as a t-shirt at RedBubble. US$24.54

 "Not all those who wander are lost.” A typography piece based on the poem by Bilbo Baggins. Created in Illustrator CS 5.

Typography: Monsters and Creatures

"Monsters & Creatures" by Canadian artist Raku Inoue

Alphabet letters made with polymer clay.

Typography: Homesick Blues

Subterranean Homesick Blues - A Hand Lettering Experience from Leandro Senna

"I´ve been thinking for a lot of time on doing a personal project where I could get out of the computer for a little bit, and have pleasure doing something handmade. Getting back to the basics.

Inspired by Bob Dylan´s Subterranean Homesick Blues video, where he flips cards with the lyrics as the song plays, I decided to recreate those cards with handmade type. I ended up doing all the lyrics, and not just some of the words, as Dylan did.

There are 66 cards done in one month during my spare time using only pencil, black tint pens and brushes. The challenge was not to use the computer, no retouching was allowed. Getting a letter wrong meant starting the page over.

I had a lot of fun doing this project, researching, practicing and getting deeper on typography."