Lee Crutchley’s Quoteskine website features hand-drawn typography.

Michael Lebovitz conducts experiments with dynamic, interactive typography.

Behance is a company that organizes the creative world to make ideas happen. Every Wednesday, Behance shares 5 fresh art and design projects from their network with PSFK.

We recently discovered what is claimed to be the first sub-pixel type family.

Letterplayground is a web community where type lovers can design and upload their own unique letter forms.

The legendary California type foundry Emigre Graphics, founded by Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko, is releasing a “best of” book. This will be the first from the influential design magazine Emigre since it stopped publishing in 2005.
512 page Emigre No. 70: The Look Back Issues – Celebrating 25 Years in Graphic Design will cover the best from a quarter century of the magazine’s content.
They explain the story:
During the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, graphic design was experiencing one of its most exciting and transformative periods. The Apple Macintosh computer had been introduced, design schools were exploring French linguistic theory, [...]

Turkish designer Ersinhan Ersin recently presented to the typography community an alphabet made from cassette tapes. He cleverly calls the project Tapeography.
Perhaps it’s innate, the desire of artists to create alphabets from objects. They have been made of stones, human bodies, and even tire tracks. Or could it be the popularity of alphabet soup?

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Yard sales, lawn services, dubious residential daycare establishments—advertisements for myriad local low-end services can be found affixed to trees, telephone poles, and walls in our neighborhoods. What most of them have in common is their indifference toward graphic design—and can they be blamed? one puts up a flier because one’s cat is missing, not as part of a RISD portfolio. If they are typed at all, they are done so without any regard for typography; Comic Sans and clip art abound, and as a result many are ignored entirely.

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Brooklyn based artist Ebon Heath creates complex mobiles made out of beautiful jumbles of letters and words. His typographic sculptures free text from the confines of 2D space and where it can engage with the larger physical environment.
Heath explains one view of his work:
The structures are a physical representation of our language as object. This “visual noise” permeates all aspects of modern culture, especially urban living. From the signs, billboards, stores, and t-shirts that yell with type for attention as you walk down any high street. All the audio and verbal noise, from music we plug our ears with to [...]