Joseph Maruca has created a very nice unofficial music video for the Jay-Z & Kanye West song “Ni##as In Paris”

Handpainted Type is a project that is dedicated to preserving the typographic practice
of street painters around India. These painters, with the advent of local DTP (Desktop Publishers) shops, are rapidly going out of business with many businesses and shops switching to the quicker, cheaper but uglier vinyls. Many painters have given up their practice altogether. The project involves documenting the typefaces of road side painters across India, digitizing it and archiving it for future generations.

It seems that Juan Osborne isn’t the only artist using typography lately to create portraits. Motion graphic designer Alex Verlan of Versa Studios has one-upped Osborne, having well and truly raised the bar with this beautifully rhythmic piece that captures the spirit in the words of Martin Luther King Jnr.

Using kinetic typography, Alex has created a visual display of Luther King’s inspiring Drum Major Instinct speech. It’s nothing new to recreate a speech video using moving text, but it’s the poetic culmination of the words into a portrait of the man himself that sets this piece aside from the others. We can’t quite fathom how much work the Ukraine-based designer must have put in to this project, but the result is just brilliant.

Found at: portable.tv

GRAPHIC FURY presents in association with the University of the Arts London ‘ Erase ’ a short film about letterpress. “Forget what you learnt to start something new.”

Produced and edited by Benoit Ollive
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Music by Immortal technique : Sierra maestra

I produced ‘Erase’ a short movie about letterpress. To be able to avoid what we learnt at school we first needed to follow the rules a lot in order to understand how they work. Forgetting these rules allows us to be more free, independent and most of the time it makes us feel unique. This poster is all about using the rules, the precision of the letter-press process, the choice of the paper and ink, the time spent on the work but it is also about destroying all of these things to make an unique object.

Set of 10 posters. Letter-pressed on pure white glossy paper, signed and numbered. To buy send an email to info@graphicfury.com

The second project for Jake Allen’s Time Based Typography class was to create an advertisement for one of a selection of companies. He chose eHarmony because he thought he could have the most play with the script, and could stylize it more than the sterile ads they show on television today. It’s modeled after old 1950’s TV ads in color and texture.

Presentation video for the SXSW ” Excellence in Title Design ” competition screening. Created by Ian Albinson.

Initial concept: David Horridge (davidhorridge.com)
Special thanks: M. Keegan Uhl (mkeeganuhl.com), Bill Simmon (billsimmon.com)

Website: artofthetitle.com
Twitter: twitter.com/​ArtoftheTitle
Facebook: facebook.com/​ArtoftheTitle

Music: RJD2 “Ghostwriter”

Jamie Lee Godfrey has created this amazing kinetic type animation which is the 2nd installment of a video series supplementing National Geographic magazine’s year-long series on global population.

This Kinetic Typography project was created from the dialogue of Conan O’Brien’s final episode of The Tonight Show on NBC. In this farewell address, he describes his feelings towards NBC and the situation at hand. His personality exudes positivity and humor allowing this dialogue to describe his character very well. Even through the hardships of leaving NBC he promotes hard work and kindness.

The concept behind this video is to show Conan O’Brien as a the monumental entertainer and solid wall that he is. Conan O’Brien is and will continue to be a seasoned television entertainer. After drawing inspiration from Lou Dorfsman’s Gastrotypographicalassemblage, this concept was achieved by creating a literal wall from over 60 individual typographic layouts. These custom crafted layouts reference a variety of eclectic type design. The combination of eclectic typography and modern 3D letter forms achieved in Cinema 4D provides a contrast between old and new. This contrast emphasizes time to create a sturdy and timeless object. This solidity and timelessness is the perfect representation of Conan O’Brien.

Created by Jacob Gilbreath using Illustrator, Soundbooth, Cinema 4D, and After Effects.

Experimental short film about typography.

Idea, direction & animation: Lucas Borras. Music & Foley artis: Jorge R-Escudero

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Typographer, graphic designer and businessman Erik Spiekermann has created timeless, influential and, yes, Meta-physical work over the past three decades.

Next to founding MetaDesign and FontShop, the latter being the first ever digital distributor of fonts, and designing more instant classic typefaces than any other, he has been recognized as an outstanding expert internationally as a lecturer and professor.

Listen to the design genius talk about new visual languages, design processes, the analogies of music and typography, and why we need better client culture in our latest Gestalten.tv video and you will easily realize why. Before heading to new visionary pastures, the bike enthusiast will make a short stop to receive the German Design Lifetime Achievement Award 2011 in February.

Watch our complete line up of video interviews on gestalten.tv.