Hand Drawn and Hand Made type

Tittle sequence for the OFFF TOUR festival held in Cincinnati in October 2011 in the Contemporary Arts Center. OFFF is a post-digital culture festival, a meeting place to host contemporary creation through an in depth programme of conferences, workshops and performances by the most relevant artists of our time.

8/16 Bit Video Game Typography

OK, so you may say this isn't exactly a post dedicated to hand drawn type – but I disagree. To craft type like this on a blocky grid with limited colour palettes requires real tenacity and understanding of the rules. Here's a site that honours the typographers who bravely went where none before had been, they discarded their rotary pens and letterset and took up the challenge to create type for arcade games! Most of them appear as animated gifs too!

Curated by Cameron Askin

Two street posters on Enmore Road

Eye catching and raw. Like em.

Michael Doret

I enjoyed this compelling interview on MyFonts.com with master of illustration, graphic art and typography Michael Doret.

House Industries gets moving

I've been a fan of the Type Foundry House Industries since my buddies Rob Dennis and Ash Ringrose introduced me to their typefaces through this book. House have always done self-promotion really well and this video is no exception.

From House: a kaleidoscope of House Industries techniques, substrates, disciplines and muscle memory compressed into high-definition pixels and actively matrixed through modulated electroluminescence with an audio lesson from The Bird and The Bee. Many thanks to Inara George and Greg Kurstin for loaning us their Polite Dance Song (under license from EMI). The House Industries trailer is directed by Andy Cruz and filmed by Carlos Alejandro.

I was disapointed I couldn't embed the video so I emailed House with a WTF? I got a prompt reply from Rich Roat himself telling me the embed was unavailable due to licensing restrictions of the track in the vid. Rich thought it was worth the trade-off... I agree.