Tamara Maynes has had a productive year, taking her Quilt Light to Milan Design Week and London Design Festival 2012 as part of the Supercyclers collective exhibition. I thought it an opportune time to catch-up with Tamara and find out … Continue reading
Suddenly going to the library is a colourful and rich experience for the children of Stanmore Public School in Sydney. Redefining the reading context Frost* Design turns reading into a surprising and inspiring experience, inside and out! “Working in conjunction with Neeson Murcutt … Continue reading
We are surrounded by signs in our daily city existence, sometimes we notice them when driving or crossing the road but often they meld into a melange of street scenery. The growing abundance of signs in our urban landscapes as … Continue reading
Letterbox director Stephen Banham delves into the Powerhouse Museum archives and discusses the future of typography. Continue reading
Locally sourced mud and moss was used to create an outdoor gallery of poetry on the walls of Sydney’s iconic Paddington Reservoir Gardens. The typographic installation, Modern Day Mossages, features words and phrases by emerging Sydney poets pays tribute to … Continue reading
For graphic designer and typographer, Luca Ionescu, inspiration comes from the need to make things better. As the owner and director of Sydney based design studio, Like Minded Studio, Ionescu spends his days in a lettering, typography and illustration bubble. … Continue reading
For many designers, the National Year of Reading means one thing: typography. This is the case for the Sydney-based font fanatic, Gemma O’Brien. The young designer made a name for herself when she released the video Write Here, Write Now … Continue reading
Dave Foster is a type disciple. He spends most of his days studying under the tutelage of some of the greatest living typographers of our age.
Foster is the 2011 recipient of the Design NSW: Travelling Scholarship offered each year by the NSW Government, with the support of the Powerhouse Museum and the British Council. Continue reading
Stephen Banham of Letterbox talks to D*Hub about Australian graphic design, and his plans to auction the exclusive rights to his newest font Bisque on eBay this month. Continue reading
Design communicator, and communication designer extraordinaire Ellen Lupton talks to D*Hub about the new National Design Triennial at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, and her personal quest to open up design to the broadest possible audience. Continue reading
Like any other creative pursuit, the design of letterforms is determined by the prevailing cultural climate and thus in a state of constant flux. Typography now functions as a kind of weathervane for the zeitgeist, with typographic analysis a leading design issue. Indeed, as designers have sought to express themselves and define their time, type has increasingly come to have its own intentions, beyond those of verbal communication. Continue reading