Kandinsky Type by Sinan Buyukbas

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This is kind of a creep situation when less and less Russian designers calls to national history of art and design in their work (even most of them are fashion designers). The history that literally gave a birth to European and American schools of Design that is developing nowadays. Take a look at amazing research and development of Kandinsky's works that later became a typography study created by Sinan Buyukbas.

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Typography Insight app

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Typography Insight, developed by Parsons design student Dong Yoon Park, is sort of like an iPad typeface encyclopedia. Only encyclopedias are boring, and Typography Insight is beautiful and fun. With a wonderful and decently responsive interface, you can beef up on type terminology (do you know what an ascender is? A baseline?) compare fonts with a nifty overlay mode, or just get all up in their perfect formed faces to appreciate and learn nuances. via Gizmodo App designed and created by Dong Yoon Park Available for both iPhone and iPad

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A Letterpress Film

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South Devon-based filmmaker Danny Cooke has documented the dying art of letterpress in a short film titled ‘Upside Down, Left To Right: A Letterpress Film’. Beautifully crafted, the under 8-min documentary showcases one of the only few remaining movable-type printing workshops in the UK, located at Plymouth University.

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Word as Image

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The book "Word as Image" showcases nearly 100 of Ji Lee’s head-scratching word images, along with tips to help you create your own.

“Anyone can create a word as image. It doesn’t require any design or drawing skills. All you need is a little creative thinking and to see words and letters in a different way. The dictionary is filled with thousands of fun visual puzzles just waiting to be solved. Visit www.wordasimage.com to submit your solution.”

2012 Creative Calendars

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The 2012 begins and it's time to renew calendars. With the help of Designmilk and Behance Network we selected the most interesting and creative calendars for 2012. Typodarium 2010 Typodarium 2010 is the first typographic tear-​off calendar, with 366 typefaces from 252 designers hailing from 32 countries. via DesignMilk

urbnCal "The team from UrbnCal chooses a city to feature each year in a calendar. The team then bikes around that city and photographs number plates to represent each day of the year. This year they chose Helsinki, Finland." via DesignMilk

Art Calendar 2012 by Martin Grohs Print graphic calendar created by Martin Grohs

Infographic Calendar 2012 by Martin Oberhäuser Each color/ring represents one month of the year. National holidays (Germany) are highlighted with an icon and pink color. The tabular view at the bottom offers some space to fill in appointments or birthdays. Check it on Behance

The Eyes of Imagination 2012 New calendar by talented illustrator Irina Vinnik features her love to imagination and hand drawing. Available in inverted colours version too. Check it on Behance

2012 Typographic Wall Calendar The calendar is made of exactly the number of used keyboard keys that represent the year. Created by Harald Geisler, via DesignMilk

Twenty Twelve A collaboration between Evgenia and Dominic Righini-Brand and Attitude Creative resulted the one-sheet graphic calendar "Twenty Twelve"

Calendar 2012 by GHIN "Calendar 2012 by GHIN comes with lunar cycles and the Mayan calendar. It’s also available in an Interfaith edition – various prices available on ghin.co.uk" via DesignMilk

Bubble Calendar 2012 Each time I see Calendar using a packaging bubble wrap I remember my university course work in 2002 when I did the same calendar. Enough reflecting here is a real Bubble calendar you can buy and pop everyday.

2012 Typography Calendar Created by Studi Hinrichs. Each edition of Typography Calendar features 12 unique typefaces, with brief descriptive text about what makes the font distinctive, and a biography of each type designer. All major holidays for the United States and Canada are noted on the calendar, along with the birthdays of the type designers. via DesignMilk

Minimal Calendar "The minimal black and white illustrations featured in Pawling Print Studio‘s calendar reflect the patterns of traditional textiles that they were inspired by" via DesignMilk

Cut Out Number Calendar 2012 Simple and graphic cut out numbers form this 2012 wall calendar. Choose your colour.

Handmade fonts

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From a graphic design studio with a passion in typography, Tallinn based "Handmade" grown up to a huge laboratory of typography made by hands. They do fonts from everything usual and obviously simple like food, home appliance objects, paper, metal and even meat. Don't miss their Christmas set and all other fonts on a good sale.

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Eduard Haiman

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Moscow based multidisciplinary designer and architect. Eduard is a researcher of interactive and parametric architecture. Works with architecture, interior design, graphic design, 3d animation, interactive and algorithmic installations.

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