This Tuesday November 22nd, FOURXFOUR will open as the last show(ever!) at the Paper Mill gallery in Angel Place, Sydney. The show features the work from the four residencies this year. The beautiful alphabet created by the workshop attendees will be on display along with other typographic musings from my residency in September. Hope to see you there!
My good friend and fellow typophile Jesse O'Neill is doing a talk today at 11am at the State Library of New South Wales. His presentation will draw on research into the design and language of Australian type specimens at the turn of the twentieth century. For more information or to book a place checkout the SLNSW page.
Starting next Monday 22 August, For the Love of Type will be setting up shop for a month-long residency at The Paper Mill Gallery in Angel Place, Sydney. Inspired by Nicolete Gray's (1960) text Lettering on Buildings, I will be examining letterforms as they appear on buildings and signage in the immediate surrounds of the gallery. The window space of the gallery will then become a live "screen" which will act as a live blog for a week - with all the content created in hand lettering and photographs from typespotting adventures. Would love for you to escape the screens for an afternoon and come visit! I will also be hosting two public workshops: the first is a walking tour looking at letters from my observations and the second is a drawing letterforms workshop. For more information or to book a place visit The Paper Mill website or email me for more information at info@fortheloveoftype.com.au.
Well, the two tall guys who brought you the coolest typographic jumping castle in history have grown! Toby & Pete have expanded their creative craftshop to include a new posse of seven designers, directors and creatives with a mixture of different talents. I am joining these talented fellas – Piotr Stopniak, Toby Pike, James Jirat Patradoon, Angus Forbes, Simon (Esjay) James, Lukasz Karluk, & Aaron Kuswara – to be collaborating on a host of new projects! You can check out our combined body of work here. This collection of type treatments are the result of our first efforts to create a body of promotional cards that present a variety of not-so-infamous duos such as Butch & Mason, Eva & Teddy and Randy & Fez. Taking ownership of the "and", each is a new persona of Toby & Pete. The approaches included laser etching on leather, embossing, 3D illustration, photography, vector illustration and even a magic eye! A taste of what's to come.
This is probably the most epic line up of letterers, typographers and artists all in one show in Sydney...EVER! Hosted by Like Minded Studios A Type of Show coincides with the two amazing talents Alex Trochut & Tony DiSpigna being in Sydney and opens at Kind Of Gallery on Oxford Street, Darlinghurst at 7pm on August 17th 2011. Hope to see you there!
Time has whizzed past since Sydney Semi-Permanent and it's already time for the Brisbane conference. Tickets are sold out and I'm getting pretty hyper about Friday! See you there Brisbane!
For the love of type was lucky enough to be featured in this month's Frankie magazine (Issue 42, p122) with typespotting pics from Rose Bay & Elizabeth Bay (Sydney), Lake Wanaka (New Zealand) and my favourite giant "T" from LA. There are also some seriously rad campervans on page 105 that will make you wanna road trip and a pretty-yet-peculiar woman with a mop for a head on page 28. Plus there's nan and pop's "Get Well Soon" guide...although it doesn't feature carrot cake ;-)! Frankie is your friend...cute and classy as always!
Title design from the Australian mystery film Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)...simple but beautiful. 
Hand drawn type I created for Canon's masterbrand campaign creatively led by Leo Burnett.
Freestyle chalk type at the BFF Street Fair in Surry Hills a few weeks ago. Woo! Check out footage from the event here. 
Earlier this year I created a type installation for the talented photographer Mikaela Burstow's solo show Tel Aviv at galleryeight. The collection was inspired by the unique spaces, architecture and crumbling Bauhaus buildings she spotted as she wandered and rode throughout the city. I decided that I wanted to work on the entire project without using a computer at all. The result was geometric wooden lettering which I drew (and re-drew and re-drew) then cut out with a jigsaw.
