A short film about letterpress and one of the few remaining movable-type printing workshops in the UK, situated at Plymouth University, featuring Paul Collier. plymouth.ac.uk

Subtitles available here: goo.gl/iuaKY

A film by Danny Cooke dannycooke.co.uk
Soundtrack by Tony Higgins tonyhiggins.org
(Available to download here: goo.gl/exGL1)

Production of Raven’s Wing, the fall edition of COLORS limited-edition Field Notes notebooks. Incredible footage.

More info at fieldnotesbrand.com/ravens-wing/

Bleisatz Werkstatt Tutorial, a brilliant film based on a seminar from The University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf called “Hot Type – Hand and Work.”
Video Production: Lukas Loss & Roman Tönjes
Sound Design: Roman Tönjes

Via Coudal.

Yannick mathey is the author of an amazing application,  developed in Processing, for his diploma. Prototyp-0 is designed for the drawing of characters with an automated process, that greatly speeds up the creation process, thus generating in a very short time a multitude of fonts. The user can set twenty parameters (fat, hunting, x-height, wheelbase, etc.). You can check his website at www.yannickmathey.com/prototyp while the app (for MAC and PC) is not yet available. Looking forward to see some interesting results with this.

Aria Pro is a beautiful typeface by Rui Abreu, available at Fountain.

In his own words:

The inspiration for this typeface came from the epigraph on a frame of a nineteenth century painting. I was fascinated by the peculiar capitals of the inscription. The high contrast, and the overall quirkiness, especially the tail of the R and the oblique stems on the M, was interesting.

I decided to draw a display font with high contrast and a vertical axis, in a reference to the transitional form. Still I wanted to capture the spirit of the original letters, which to me are so imbued with Romanticism. This approach allowed for some exuberance on the regular style, but also led to more calligraphic letterforms in the italic – in which “the flow of the curves” lead the way.

To add to this epigraphic nature there is a number of ornaments that accompany words accordingly to their uppercase or lowercase form. For versatility there’s also a good amount of ligatures, alternative glyphs, and a special set of ornamental numbers.

Typeface design: Rui Abreu
Movie trailer: Rui Abreu

TypeStar is a lyric visualizer created by Scott Garner that renders lyrics of a song in realtime according to a number of preset visualization schemes.

Application is available as Mac, Windows and Linux download.
(via creativeapplications.net)

Designing Minds has a video portraying the world-renowned designer, illustrator and typographer Marian Bantjes during her appearance at the recent Design Matters Live event presented by Adobe and the AIGA. 

Previous guests include Stefan Sagmeister, Marian Bantjes, Elliot Earls, Julia Hoffmann, Alan Dye and Debbie Millman.

Laura Zinger just wrote us, with the trailer for the documentary PROCEED AND BE BOLD starring Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr..

Related: PROCEED AND BE BOLD – Bringing Race and Art to the masses

Wouters from the fantastic letman, and his nephew Gradus, improvise some letters.

Here is an interview with graphic designer Michael Bierut, where he talks about the evolution of type, the various covers of The Catcher in the Rye, the ugliness of ITC Garamond, and all sorts of other intriguing things.

Source: The Atlantic

Xnographics Studio from Barcelona, just send an email telling us about this great motion piece they´ve made.