Another one I had to do some clever re-Googling for. A while back I was sent a link to Si Scott’s portfolio site. Once you get past the mystery-meat navigation, you’re in for a treat.

You know that floral, bling style that’s been so popular lately that it’s rapidly becoming a cliché? Well, this guy is the master of it - so much so I wouldn’t lump him in with the rest of them. I think his work is too finely executed to be called a cliché. Check these out.

Found on KSTP Twin Cities News. I love that 5! So much so, I had to sketch it.

I lost the link to this site. I ended up spending nearly half an hour trawling Google Images until I found an image that was familiar! Then I was back on the portfolio site of Mouneer Al-Shaárani. He’s got some wonderful examples of quite remarkable calligraphy on there - I just wish I knew what they meant. Take the three examples below. It amazes me they can say anything at all and I wonder whether they’re as hard to read as those psychedelic posters from the sixties.

I have a strong attraction to calligraphy in general, but I am particularly fascinated by the possibilities afforded by arabic and persian scripts. I’ve seen many examples of arabic scripts in books, on buildings and posters, but I first came across anthropomorphic and zoomorphic calligraphy on this post on BibliOdyssey. Amazing stuff:

From Penny Arcade. I love the big serial number, and I also love the idea of a ping pong robot. Quoting the site:

So our ping pong games have not been going so well. We’ve taken steps recently to ensure that our future games go better. I don’t want to say too much right now but here’s a picture. This arrived yesterday morning.

The sampler for Moderne Schwabacher

After reading this thread on Typophile about a new beer label I did a quick search for Hartwig Schrift (the original type for the label) and found this incredible site. It’s got a collection of resurrected blackletter types (and elsewhere, Pirate types!) some of which I’ve seen before, others which I’ve never seen, like Jaecker-Schrift. I love blackletter type anyway, and there are some real gems in there. The fonts themselves are of patchy quality, but if you’re after some beautiful letterforms to use in lettering or logo projects, it’s definitely the place to go.

Eth from Jaecker-Schrift

This capital Eth from Jaecker-Schrift for example is really quite compelling. The composition of the diacritic brings to (my) mind Suprematism, or Kandinsky - it’s that dot, almost like a full stop hidden in the character and balanced by the verticals - so perfect! As in the sampler on the page, I’d be tempted to use it as an ornamental ‘D’ as after all, it’s so ornamented it goes far beyond a normal Eth that you couldn’t tell the difference anyway. I’m also thinking of creating a set of similarly ornamented caps to use as cadels with the font. I have a thing for cadels too…