Yet another collection of inspirational ideas I stumbled across today. This one being focused on typography on business cards. There’s a few I kinda like here…especially the letterpress ones I don’t see too many people using them here. I’ve been playing around a few times with UV coat print lately where you have gloss effects...
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I stumbled across these beautiful playing cards designed by Michelle Lam. Apparently it’s intended to inspire other designers with the use of typography and iconology. I think it’s quite nice, it’s inspired me thank you Michelle! I’ve had a couple of people approach me to design playing decks for them before. Unfortunately in both...
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Do they have a serif version of this font? Disgusting eh? But it definitely caught my eye this morning. Looks like these are different people for each one…some are hairy like a sasquatch and some of these folks look like they’re about to blow a blood vessel. Somehow there is no “Y” and “Z”. Maybe they ran out of...
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I saw this somewhere the other day. I was very impressed. Remember how I keep saying I’m a little type-challenged? Well, some artists are so good at it they can create an art piece like the one above using nothing BUT type! Apparently this tribute (?) to Steve Jobs was done using only the font-types that have been historically used in Apple...
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As I mentioned before, I’m not that IN to typography. But I DO find it interesting despite the fact I don’t often think enough about things like “ascenders”, “terminals”, “bowls”, etc. So I wandered onto this really rich resource of font information on this site called “I Love Typography” which I...
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LoweStudio Inc was founded by me, Raphael Lowe, a Honolulu based illustrator and web designer. I presently design and manage a few dozen commercial websites, but my main focus these days is acting as the head developer for Kapiolani Community College and teaching New Media Arts.