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Underware is a graphic design studio which is specialized in designing and producing typefaces. These are often conventional in terms of legibility - yet functional, having concepts that seek for new visual, typographic and linguistic possibilities. These typefaces are published for retail sale or are custom designed.

The company was founded in 1999 by Akiem Helmling, Bas Jacobs and Sami Kortemäki. We are based in Den Haag, Helsinki and Amsterdam.

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Updates at Un.titled! Don’t miss their new stationary and book.

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Raising up straight from Chile, this talented pal brings us some great quality work and type treatments. You want to check Diego Quintana’s work.

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Swedish graphic designer Jens Nilssons beautiful typeface Dancemade is so worth the money. Actually I don’t know if it’s available for purchase, but be sure too check all of his work!

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A wealth of inspiration from the work of Ken Meier to sink you teeth on. On the drop down select “Mercator Vet”. Does anyone have any information on this. Google turns up empty.

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I’ve always loved the work that Hort made. With the launch of their new website it is noticeable that their inspiration has had a new release of creative design ideas. This poster was made for the Berlin Music Commission to pitch for their new corporate identity. check it out

Lowman

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Robert Holmkvist from Spin let’s us know that the Spin/3 — Action Time Vision: Punk 7″ Singles is finally here. Spin/3 retails at £4/€5/$8 plus postage. There’s also a 100cm x 70cm limited edition of 75 silkscreened posters available for £10/€13/$20 plus postage and packaging.

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As I was going through my class mates sites I came across this little type gem. From the designer,

“After a wonder around the permanent collection of the Tate Modern, we had to select one work as inspiration to base a new typeface on. At least six characters had to be produced in order to show our methodologies of how the letter forms would be created. I choose an oil on canvas entitled ‘K VII 1922′ by László Moholy-Nagy. I was attracted to the use of geometric shapes and bold lines and saw potential in forming a solid blocky typeface. From the chosen work I made up a universal template to base my characters on. It is very similar to how digital clock numbers are formed”

More images of the sketches here

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Some great graphic/typographic work at Mola™
Via Computerlove

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MM Paris has a fantastic catalogue of posters that you can view here

Page 26 - 32 of the pdf has some great work on converting posters/images to type. Please do take some time to go through all of it. Full of inspiration.

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GRRR is a collaboration between an Artist & Designer. The work that they make: drawing, artists books, painting and street art is drawn together to create vivid artwork that stumbles through a psychotropic landscape. Work is littered with references to comedy, literature and ceefax.

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Straight from France, Stillontherun™ brings us some nice new work, featuring great typo treatments.

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