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Yesterday a few of us went down to visit Glyphics, a signage specialist in Leonard Street, East London where they source vintage signs and lettering as well as making new ones from scratch. We...
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Interview with calligrapher and artist Frederick Marns
Frederick Marns is a bit of a legend at Design Bridge. We hired him over twenty years ago to do some calligraphy work on a limited edition Christmas Toblerone pack*, and have had the pleasure of...
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Brand identity/logo designer Dan Fleming has combined typography design and illustration to create these cute animal characters from the letters of the animal’s name. I love the puzzle-like quality...
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Inspired by God’s Own Junkyard
Neon has fascinated me for a while now. It’s the ultimate human bug zapper, drawing drunken revelers to dirty kebabs as easily as tempting fashionistas to ridiculously priced shoes. It has seen...
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The video for French musicians Cauboyz’ latest song uses kinetic typography, incorporating some rather lovely type in the process. However, I found that the making of the video for Husbands was almost...
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Claire Parker judges corporate design a.s.r.
Claire Parker, Creative Director at our Amsterdam office, is part of the ‘corporate design panel’ of Marketing Tribune magazine, so every month she will judge a corporate design, together with Tom...
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Claire Parker judges corporate design Bulls&Birds
Claire Parker, Creative Director at our Amsterdam office, is part of the ‘corporate design panel’ of Marketing Tribune magazine, so every month she will judge a corporate design, together with Tom...
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Friday Favourites
Thanks to Daniel for finding the work of Jonty Hurwitz who created a series of anamorphic sculptures that cleverly reveal themselves when positioned next to a reflective cylinder. He describes himself...
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Friday Favourites
This installation for the Hermès store at Hong Kong International airport was created by French artists Zim&Zou, who are famous for their intricate, colourful sculptures. Using leather off cuts...
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There’s something very appealing about these edible gelatin letters, created by designers Aranxa Esteve and Lucía Rallo from M-Inspira in Spain. You can almost smell the jelly flavours, I just wish...
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I was quite excited to discover these beautifully crafted, hand made building blocks for children, by US company Uncle Goose. This particular set is inspired by type foundry House Industries’...
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Friends on Friday Favourites
Every now and again we do a special edition of Friday Favourites, where we celebrate the inspiring work, or hidden creative talents of friends, family and colleagues. Anyone whose work we admire, or...
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Friday Favourites
A few of us stumbled across Typehunting this week – a great site dedicated to vintage type, which is full of gorgeous shots of brand identities, packaging and signage from years gone by. On a...
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Our top picks for the London Design Festival 2013
The London Design Festival is almost upon us, and as always, there is an exciting line up of events and exhibitions to inspire and delight. We’ve picked out a handful things that we think are not to be...
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Friday Favourites
There is something rather haunting about these photographs of empty swimming pools, by Gigi Cifali. I don’t know if it’s because it’s showing us a perspective we almost never see, but there’s a...
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Chris LaBrooy’s 3D type We mentioned Chris LaBrooy’s car sculptures on FF a couple of weeks ago, but I couldn’t resist sharing another lovely example of his 3D Graphics work for all you typophiles out...
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Shortlisted for The Drum and Design Week Awards
This week we were excited hear that two of our projects have been shortlisted for two great industry awards. Following last year’s Platinum win at the Pentawards, our design for Walker’s Tiger Nuts...
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Inspiration talk by OIC and Mindflyer in Singapore
As part of our creative monthly talks in the Design Bridge Singapore studio we were joined by artist Michael Ng (aka Mindflyer), a founding member of the OIC (Organisation of Illustrators Council in...
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Typography Workshop at Krux in Amsterdam
It was awesome! Ahem… Apologies for the blunt start to this blog, I shall elaborate: a couple of weeks ago we were sent an email announcing a studio training inspiration day. The email introduced a...
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1600 Pandas in Hong Kong 1600 papier-mâché pandas are on display across Hong Kong at the moment for the travelling exhibit “Pandas On Tour”. The number 1600 might sound quite random, but the...
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UNELEFANTE’s painted artisan chocolate bars UNELEFANTE is a gift company in Mexico selling locally made products, inspired by Mexican culture. Owner Tatiana Sánchez teamed up with leading chocolatier...
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At the Bar with Signpainter Mike Meyer
For the last two years at Design Bridge in Amsterdam, we have hosted bi-monthly talks with inspirational guest speakers – we call it ‘At the Bar‘. So far, we have enjoyed evenings with architects,...
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Topography Typography Thanks to Sander for sharing this typography work by Synoptic Office. They have created some Alphabet Topography – typography that’s also topography. Each letter is built up from...
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Blossom Type by Alice Mourou I loved this beautiful hand crafted project by Alice Mourou, who uses plants, flowers and a lot of patience to create Blossom Type. She worked with Dmitriy Petrov, Olesya...
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Famous movie characters in LEGO Stunlock Studios have teamed up with master LEGO builder/designer SuckMyBrick to create these beautifully designed 3D movie characters out of LEGO. See if you can guess...
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