This months artist / designer interview is with Oddhero a duo who design and sell Prints and TShirts …
David Gray and Stewart Bremner are two of Oddhero’s founders.
Gray is based in New York City, Bremner in Edinburgh, Scotland.
How long have you been an graphic artist?
DG: Never have, I’m a magazine and newspaper designer who loves type.
SB: Hmm. Since before I knew I was one. But in the real world, for about eight years. (more…)
This is the first in a monthly series of design book reviews, where I’ll cover the books that really are inspiring to me or are just a great design resource. The books I’ll be covering will range in subjects from graphic design through to arts related books.
Hand Job : A Catalog of Type by Michael Perry
The Blurb:
In this digital age of computer-generated graphics and technology, it’s refreshing to see a small subset of typographers who still believe in working by hand. and as the popularity of hand-drawn type continue to grow, it is now time to explore and celebrate the work of those typographers whose every letter is a work of (more…)
I’ve used StumbleUpon for sometime now, its a great way of, well, stumbling upon art and design related sites you just wouldn’t usually have found.
Recently I came across Fontstruct a great little site that enables you to easily create typefaces/fonts out of grided shapes which it then creates in to usable TrueType fonts. The fonts that are created can be used in Mac or Windows applications. It also encourages people to (more…)