At the weekend Jess & I popped down to Brick Lane to see the Eric Gill x Monotype exhibition. A tribute to Gill’s typography, the exhibition explores the creation, development and refinement of his fonts. ‘Letters are things not pictures of things’ – Gill’s take on typography. You’ll know his most famous font, Gill Sans, but in this exhibition Monotype share 3 new editions; Gill Sans Nova, Joanna Sans Nova and Joanna Nova. Monotype describe these...
A little birdy(twitter) told me last week that something juicy and typographic was coming to Shoreditch; Gordon Young’s Comedy Carpet off-cuts. Lucy, Jack, my sister Sophie & I popped in at the weekend to see if all of the tweeting was true… I haven’t made it to Blackpool to see the carpet for myself yet but it looks and sounds amazing; 160,000 granite letters embedded into concrete. A 1,720 square metre space, the granite carpet...
For my Birthday back in December, Sara bought me these cool alphabet stamps and golden ink, and yes, I’ve only just got around to using them. I figured that the perfect way to show them off to you guys was by placing them within my beautiful Kaleido HAY trays, which Jack surprised me with on my Birthday – ALL OF THE BIRTHDAY GIFTS! (Beady eyes will also notice the amazing copper wire N from Oliver Bonas which was also...
I’ve had this post drafted since May but today I can finally share it with the world! The reason it’s been under wraps is because I had planned to make 3D letters as housewarming presents for my housemates but obviously I didn’t want to spoil the surprise so I’ve kept it hush hush. Yesterday was the first day that all housemates were together in our new house (and also Danielle‘s birthday – Happy Birthday!) so...
I don’t think I need to explain why I J’adore this… just visit now, and then every now and again and you will smile too 🙂
WARNING!!!!!!!!!!: I am NOT going to pay for any eye tests so read this post at your own risk! Bela Borsodi’s Alphabet typographs (typography photographs) are so eye boggling, wouldn’t you agree? What I love about this work is that it’s a bit like what I would imagine its like being on drugs! I, of course, haven’t been stupid enough to do drugs so cannot be sure BUT what I mean by this is that you...
I know my blogging performance has become shockingly non existant this month, but as always I have the perfect excuse/person to blame; the male species 🙂 (note the smile) Yes, it would appear I am under the spell of a gentleman… so blogging has taken a back seat for a little while! HOWEVER there is no doubt that my passion for all things Graphique is still very strong, only the other day I found myself drooling over a book....
Although I’m posting it today, this is actually from 2 weeks ago. In my garden the conifer trees are being leeched onto by a vine-type plant. My parents hate it so naturally, I love it. So much that I decided I wanted to create a typeface from it, so I did. I used some paving slabs from my garden as the backdrop. This is the 3rd typeface I have created (mince meat being the first and ice lolly...