A Step Forward for Type Design

With the amount of fonts currently on the web, designers are spoiled for choice. MyFonts has over 800 foundries creating brand new commercial fonts on a daily basis. Since the recent arrival of professionally designed free fonts produced by type foundries like Fontfabric, designers no longer have to worry about paying for high quality fonts. ...

Until the Light Takes Us

Black metal is a subculture and metal subgenre characterized by high pitched harsh vocals, fast paced heavily distorted guitars and blast beats which are generally used to create unsettling, aggressive music. The subculture of black metal is infamous because of murders, suicide and church burnings from the early 90′s in Norway. These subjects are explored ...

Wonderful Book

Marian Bantjes is a designer and illustrator who’s work can be identified by the intricate and unique pattern and typographic style. I have currently been reading her book I Wonder. Each page has been designed in a way so that the text and images fits together seamlessly which is very refreshing to look at. Breaking ...

Recent Inspiration

Photographs of Interesting Typography

A small personal collection of found typography.. More coming soon…  

Information Bought to Life

Over the past few years I have been involved in creating animations that bring information and data to life. Here are some of the video’s that inspired my own creations..  

A New Interactive Sound Experience

The Empty City is an interactive sound installation in the form of a miniature city, in which buildings emit pre-recorded sounds, memories of a city. This installation is hosted by Easter Bloc Center for New Media and Interdisciplinary Arts in Montreal. The organization’s mandate is to support the work of emerging artists by providing them ...

A Beautiful New Browser Game

Adam Phillips (aka Chluaid) is a freelance animator best known for his Flash animations on his Bitey Castle website. His latest project is a collaboration with developer Sean McGee is Dashkin, a free to play in the browser game. They have been using the Kickstarter website to gain funds for the game and have just reached ...

Navigation Techniques

Navigation design is a very important aspect of web and app design. It is also important when designing other forms of interactive media like game and DVD menus. With the programming languages and software that are now available to designers, there are very few limitations for what you can do. It is best to make ...

Inspiring Illustrative Typography

Illustrative type has become quite popular over the past few years. This kind of work is cropping up quite often on sites like Behance and typography blogs. Designers with an interest in typography who want to use their illustrative skills to create something unique with a high visual impact. In this post I want to show ...