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Type design firm Underware’s bold and beautiful new wordmark for Tahoe South. Love.

Type design firm Underware’s bold and beautiful new wordmark for Tahoe South. Love.

A stunning, fan-made opening title sequence for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, created and composited by Doğan Can Gündoğdu. /via Nice Type

FontShop’s best typefaces of 2011 have been announced:


  To celebrate the end of another exciting year in type, our type experts put their heads together to compile our annual “Best Of” list, highlighting the typefaces that surprised, impressed, and delighted us.


Some nice picks, I’m a big fan of TypeTogether’s Abril which was lauded as a “Modern Romance”.

FontShop’s best typefaces of 2011 have been announced:

To celebrate the end of another exciting year in type, our type experts put their heads together to compile our annual “Best Of” list, highlighting the typefaces that surprised, impressed, and delighted us.

Some nice picks, I’m a big fan of TypeTogether’s Abril which was lauded as a “Modern Romance”.

Claes Källarsson:

Saul Bass’ brilliant opening titles for Grand Prix (1966).

Jurjen Versteeg’s 2011 graduation project pays homage to the greats of title sequence design, each rendered in their signature style. Perfect. Watch the Titles has the backstory.

Nice use of pictograms in this student packaging project by Sascha Elmers. (via Stephen Coles)

Nice use of pictograms in this student packaging project by Sascha Elmers. (via Stephen Coles)

Among new work at Matt Lehman Studio, this logo for the March 2011 edition of Esquire’s “Eat Like A Man” section.

Among new work at Matt Lehman Studio, this logo for the March 2011 edition of Esquire’s “Eat Like A Man” section.

Letterpress by Naomie Ross, music by Mark Mothersbaugh.

Richard Miller’s Westin Black is a great take on the friendly slab, by way of Cooper Black. It’s now available for desktop and web use from Fontspring, as part of a new collection of rounded faces that also includes Museo Sans Rounded and Proxima Nova Soft.

Richard Miller’s Westin Black is a great take on the friendly slab, by way of Cooper Black. It’s now available for desktop and web use from Fontspring, as part of a new collection of rounded faces that also includes Museo Sans Rounded and Proxima Nova Soft.

New on Nice Type: the music video for Matta’s “Release the Freq”, beautifully directed, shot, edited and animated by Norway’s Kim Holm. Sure, we’ve seen this style before, but it’s seldom executed with the attention to detail seen here.

Heroes

Humming

  • The Suburbs by Arcade Fire
  • The King Is Dead by The Decemberists
  • Passive Me, Agressive You by The Naked and Famous
  • Buffalo by The Phoenix Foundation

Past: 2009, 2008, 2007

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