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Hi everyone! My name is Ngoc, and as of this week I’m the newest member to the Typophile/Punchcut team. I’m really excited about working here and just as excited about posting to the Typophile blog. I’m looking forward to sharing with everyone interesting typography, graphic imagery, and stories I’ll come across on the internet or around San Francisco. There’s plenty of great work and ideas to be shared, and I think the Typophile community is a great place to do it.
new in typography
hello! since last year im designing a text typography with the help from a typographer of my University. Now i went a few days ago to the streets to search ideas and i found one lettering from a paint car shop. there wasnt the all alphabeth but i try to design it completely and this was my result.(i think its like a modular system)
bye
Matias Nahrwold
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Typophile Welcomes Ngoc Ngo
We’re pleased to announce Typophile’s first dedicated employee. Ngoc Ngo is a seasoned consultant and an MFA candidate focused on graphic design at Academy of Art University. He has joined Punchcut at our San Francisco office and will be engaged on a number of initiatives for this site and for the Typophile community.
We’re looking forward to the traction that he’ll bring to our modest world domination plans. Please say hello!
Basic resume typography for programmers
I am a professional programmer and amateur typographer. I have recently written a blog article about the typographic and composition improvements I made to my resume. Resume: A Tale of Desire, Intrigue, and Formatting is an outline of the process I used to improve my resume with a little help from The Elements of Typographic Style and FF Scala. I hope this will help other engineers with very little understanding of typography make their resumes better.
It would be very useful to get some feedback from more experienced designers. Did the resumes actually get better? Is the final resume any good? Is the advice I give good advice? What do you think of the overall concept?
Thank you in advance.
blackletter-esque: need your opinion
My friend designed this typeface, I’m a graphic designer, but it would be great to get feedback from type designers. Would you consider this to be blackletter? Do you have any advice on how to make it better (he is relatively inexperienced at type design)?
Thanks for your time!
TypeTrust presents Recovery by James Puckett
My new typeface “Recovery” is now available from TypeTrust. Recovery is a reinterpretation of Charles Coiner’s letter designs for the National Recovery Administration and M.F. Benton’s typeface “Eagle Bold” which was based on Coiner’s work. Recovery comes in one weight with small caps, fractions, and an extended character set.
View and buy it here: http://typetrust.com/font/recovery
And the PDF is here.
Thanks to Silas Dilworth for his invaluable assistance with the production of this typeface.
Examples of Missionary Font by Emigre
Does anyone have a real world examples of Missionary font in use i.e.- magazine, website etc? As I’m desperate to find a example for an essay I have to hand in tomorrow.
design business name and logo
So I’m trying to come up with a brand to pull in some freelance design business. I don’t want to use my name because it’s difficult to spell. So far the best I’ve come up with is “flourish”. I chose it for it’s double meaning.
Here’s my first attempts at a logo. Is it too obvious a choice?
I wanted to try using Emigre’s Tribute font because it looks like there’s some nice ligatures in there but I can’t cough up the money for it now. Does anyone know of similar fonts families? I’ve gone with Mrs Eaves for now.
First impressions of name and logo? Any suggestions for improvement?
Thanks in advance.
Logo: Tool Sharpening Company
Hey everyone. I’ve been reading Typophile for awhile now and finally decided to post my own work up for critique.
I’m working on a logo for a company called TMA. They are a tool sharpening company for mostly custom/specialized tools and serve clients like Lockheed Martin. Their preferred direction was something simple, more modern, and clean looking so this is what I came up with. I tried to suggest a drill bit-like shape with the letterforms while keeping the elements “sharp” looking. Please let me know you thoughts. Logo design is probably where I’m weakest right now as a designer so any helpful criticism is welcome. Thanks!
