Typography Tuesday

Swindler and Swindler is a husband and wife duo AKA "Mr. and Mrs.

The Betrayer Family is a lettering studio who has a distinctive and cohesive branding identity. Reminiscent of vintage matchbooks and old school tattoo designs, I love their punk and grungy esthetic.

Unlimited Mag by Víctor Guerrero Vila is a gorgeous student project with too many cool pages to show here. I've selected a few of my favorites and I especially love the stab bound cover.

Flickr user Eric Carl scanned this huge collection of vintage logos "from a mid-70's edition of the book World of Logotypes". You can download the PDF from Archive.org. 

Emil Kozole has created a thought provoking font called seen that censors the 370 words on The Department of Homeland Security's list of words they track on the internet. 

Jordan Metcalf is a talented typographer. His work ranges from traditional calligraphy to 3D phrases. Combining modern and retro styles, his work is distinctive. 

This GIF of the word happy being drawn by Seb Lester in perfect to wish you a belated Valentine's Day and Happy Lunar New Year!

Do Something. That simple message really resonates with me as a creator. Trent Kokich has taken a longtime philosophy of mine and reduced it to two words. 

Check out this massive collection of midcentury matchbooks shared by redditor buzzsaw_and_dynamo who also aptly dubbed it mega. Specifically the "mega album of pictures of my dad's matchbook collection". He has taken beautiful photographs and nicely arranged the different artwork on the inside and outisde of each cover into a single image. Below is just a sample of what you're in for. Be warned! There are 136 images in the set. 

Even though the days are finally getting longer, the night skies dominate and extended hours mean lots of star gazing. In the spirit of celebrating the night skies, I'm sharing Hajnalka Illes' Uraniae Observatory series. She has created a gorgeous poster, business card, trio of booklets, and more. Her project description explains "the observatory that only existed for a short period of 37 years on top of the most famous of hills, Gellert in Budapest." Her font combinations work perfectly with her illustrations and layout. My favorite is the large silk screened poster on black.