typography
Old Magazines
Hadn’t broken away from the computer in a while, so I pulled out an old magazine, shredded a few pieces, cut a few pieces, and glued it all down. Of course it comes back in to the computer and gets tweaked up a bit. Just a bit though. Sometimes a quick (and otherwise pointless) side project is the perfect fix.
Featured: Able Parris
Able Parris is a collage artist and typographer doing some really cool crossover design/art work. Nice identity portfolio too. He’s all over the internet, but you can start at his Cargo site and take it from there:
Featured: Maximus Balder
Mixed-media art from Maximus Balder. Picardie, France – found on the Gestalten Blackboard. Really cool layered artwork weaving in typography, commercial/design stuff… all found-imagery, as far as I can tell, and the resulting compositions have a rich design&type-infused feel to them.
Site and info is here.
iPhone Wallpapers 01
Just posted a couple sets of iPhone wallpapers, including some stuff from the never-published Phase04 Habitat PDF mag. Also threw in some Midei City stuff, and some work from my in-progress side project called ‘Upload’. Head over to the link below for downloads, and enjoy:
And shoot us an email if you have some freebies that you’d like to share.
Featured: EMPK
Cool stuff from this Art Direction/Design/Photography duo in Brazil. Lots of other work – commercial and experimental alike – on display at:
Georgia 11pt
Another experiment from Gabe – zooming way in on the pixelated character set of Georgia at 11 points on screen. So the pixels were scaled up, then rebuilt as circles in a blue/black/gray palette to match the anti-aliasing you get in your browser. Small sizes read a lot like regular on-screen type, but you get some interesting abstractions when the characters are presented at larger sizes.
This is one of many side projects that has come together off of earlier projects and experiments. One element from wherever (in this case Phase 02 | Community), revisited and enhanced, then served back up in a place like the Phase blog for the hell of it. Maybe this comes out at some point on client work, but for now, its innocence is intact.
Beantown Katakana
A quick experiment from Gabe at the Phase Collective – mashing the typographic style of the Red Sox wordmark (going back nearly a century) with the corresponding Japanese Katakana characters.
Featured: Piero Di Biase
Piero Di Biase offers up a diverse range of typographic styles through his traditional typeface design, type experiments, and beyond. We’ve zoned in on his Quadro typeface project, which merges two complimentary grid-based faces to create an overlapping, multi-color typographic presentation. This is a smart typographic approach with color at the conceptual core, and the same idea could be applied across the stylistic spectrum of typeface designs.
See more and get in touch at:
www.pierodibiase.it
www.pierodibiase.blogspot.com
Featured: Jung Eun Park
South Korean-born, London-based illustrator Jung Eun Park goes eco-typographic. The Phase Collective is happy to share 4 of her typographic compositions, along with a few shots of the related stencil work for her “Walk in the park” project in East London’s Shoreditch district.
Check out her work at www.jung-park.com
![Phase 01 Brainstorm [pdf]](http://www.phasecollective.com/images/phase01_thumb.jpg "Issue 01")
![Phase 02 Community [pdf]](http://www.phasecollective.com/images/phase02_thumb.jpg "Issue 02")
![Phase 03 Play [pdf]](http://www.phasecollective.com/images/phase03_thumb.jpg "Issue 03")