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Tom Lane is a Ginger Monkey founder soon after graduating Tom commenced a freelance career that quickly developed in to a specialist design, lettering, and illustration service – operating chiefly with clients in Bristol. Overtime, with plenty of new projects, the ability of the internet, and some abundant advice from the press, Tom built his […]

These fonts are made by an Estonian design studio that specializes in creating interesting font solutions fueled by the inspiration that is within all of us. This duo of designers, Vladimir and Maksim Loginov, manages to present fonts in a new light. Every font that this font factory produces is made in accordance with all […]

Sawdust is an award winning partnership of two independent graphic designers Rob Gonzalez and Jonathan Quainton with the headquarters in London, UK. Their specific disciplines include identity creation, illustrations and design in the areas of music, art, culture, fashion, corporate visuals and advertising. This approach and their work on visually remarkable projects made them well […]

This great typeface comes from Germany and was made by a graphic designer and art director Mathias Nösel. Typeface of this quality can find many uses, as you will see from the images bellow. It is really extremely modern and universally applicable, it can be used both in vector and 3D graphics where its characteristics […]

Extremely stylish and sleek with unique widening at the joints and curves that make this typeface look a bit more technical. Accent is a highly modern typeface that could easily be used in a number of different applications, CD covers, magazines or posters. Really, the possibilities are endless with a typeface this interesting and well […]

This little Bulgarian typeface design studio, currently Sophia based, has made some truly amazing fonts, as you can see on their website http://www.typedepot.com. I loved their fonts, and I would like to mention some of them specially. First I would like to mention Pista Font, a unique, decorative typeface that you can use for all […]

I accidentally found this infographic that summarizes the development of Western typography. It is great that you can see how, over the years, serif or san serif typefaces were dominant in certain periods. How typography grew from rough drafts to perfect ligatures. The infographic shows a period of time ranging from Gutenberg all the way […]

It was a great idea to merge logo  and sneaker models. Nike is one of the best known brands in the world so it is kind of hard to make something new and recognizable for them. But this idea that the Lisbon designer Hugo Silva had is truly great. His detailed illustration has a certain […]

I recently found a beautiful font called Bello, this is a handwritten brush script font family and it is very remarkable and pleasing to the eye. Bello has lots of ligatures and start and ending swashes. They are automatic in Bello Pro, which is a cross-platform OpenType font with many OpenType features. Bello Pro package […]