Typography

San Francisco-based designer and illustrator Brent Couchman has a portfolio packed with beautiful work, including a hearty collection of designs done for Fossil. Here I'd like to share some of his typography work, both experimental studies and samples done for Friends of Type. What I love most about his type pieces is the variety in style and the care in their execution.

According to Italian advertising and design agency H-57 Creative Station, "Creativity has no rules. Well, almost no rules." They identified their personal axioms, drew them on paper, cut out the pieces and arranged them on a big piece of cardboard. When they completed the project, they realized that the rules they chose were in fact principles that guide them daily during creative endeavors. Designing this poster was a way to abide by the very first rule: have fun in what you do.

NYC-based designer and letterer Jeff Rogers creates beautiful and playful letters and word-based illustrations. Feast your eyes on some of his hand-lettering portfolio, where his transforms words into pieces of typographic art:

Part revelation, part humor, these signs by artist Steve Lambert embrace the tradition of flashy ads with bold typography and demanding lights. For the past nine years he's been making art that comments on advertising and public space.