Work in Progress*

With having great success with my website, I have decided now is the time for change. Hopefully, by the end of next month, this blog will be moving to my website with an all new look!

As well as the blog following my personal development as a graphic designer, I will now be introducing interviews with other designers to talk about their influences and techniques covering all areas of the creative process.

I also have an exciting new project - all will be revealed on the new blog soon…

Watch out Ethan is About!
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Keep an eye on new graduate Ethan! He loves using what is available and has a passion for creating excellent conceptual typographic pieces.

-*- from oscar on Vimeo.

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issuu.com
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Here are some typogrographical Issuu’s worth reading:

Web Typography Basics
Design&Life
FontBooklet No.1 from FontShop
Font 007 from FontShop
Ampersand found via AisleOne
Typographic Practice

Please feel free to comment on any you may have came across.

You too can publish:

Explore a world of publications by people and publishers alike. Collect, share and publish in a format designed to make your documents look their very best.

[Visit Issuu to see more]

There is a new function on the Grid Calculator buy page at the bottom. If you recommend a
friend or more you have a chance to win a free book, so why not recommend it to some
friends and have the chance of winning this months super awesome book?

This months book: Detail in Typography by Jost Hochuli

Subtitled ‘A concise yet rich discussion of all the small things that enhance the legibility of texts’, Jost Hochuli’s guide to micro-typography considers everything that can happen within a column of text. Detail in typography, designed by its author, is printed and bound in Switzerland to the best standards. It provides, in its own form and manufacture, a demonstration of how books can be made.
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Printed via PhotoBox
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Well, I have a fond love of Ampersands as most of my readers will know. So I decided to create myself a mug with an Ampersand with the typeface revealed on the reverse. I am aiming to do a series covering the Adobe fonts.

This is a sneaky preview of the design. Hopefully tomorrow, when it is much brighter (here is hoping!) I have set up some natural elements to photograph the final product shot; I will upload the new images to this post when complete.

Looking for the right type
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My sister is getting married in September and I have the pleasure of designing her wedding invites/favours and general visual goodies.

So today we have decided on a font by which I am going to create a logotype to apply on the various designs; this will be used as a stamp and will be placed on almost everything.

With the wedding being in Cyprus we want the type to be a little bit tropical looking yet still quite traditional looking. The first typeface which caught our eye was the amazing Burgues Script from Veer.

Although traditional, the letter forms and stunning glyphs were something we would not consider to be tropical. So not looking too far away we came across another stunning typeface on Veer called Affair, which I must admit I have came across time and time again. The typeface is so beautiful and has a tropical decorative feel.

So with the font chosen, I am now going to create a logotype with first names: including the date of marriage and location.

Minimalism in Website Design
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Here are some really beautiful clean and functional websites.
These are just some of the websites I often visit for graphic inspiration. Studying sites like this influenced my online portfolio so I hope they will inspire many others:

Vignelli Associates
Non-Format
Nick Bell
Saville Wakefield
We Are Build
Studio Makgill
Cartlidge Levene
B&W Studio
BB/Saunders
NavyBlue
Browns Design

[via Thinking For A Living]

Hypefortype is the new online digital type foundry from Thinkdust, launching in 2009. Every 3 months, the most sought after designers from around the globe will work together with us to bring you the freshest typefaces on offer. For volume one you an expect limited edition creations from the likes of Si Scott, Alex Trochut, Luke Lukas, and Jon Burgerman.

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Mathematics creates amazing graphic precision…

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