Typographic Treatments

Justin Thomas Kay is a Wisconsin-based art director and graphic designer, working in New York City since 2004. He recently received one of the 2008 "Young Guns" Awards from the Art Directors Club. He works mostly in editorial/print and apparel, and has some great typographic explorations. This was one of my favorites: typographic explorations for apparel for the Zoo York Juniors '08. Zoo York is a style inspired by New York City graffiti culture from the '70s. The name originates from a subway tunnel running underneath the Central Park Zoo, where graffiti artists gathered at night. Ned Wright, a designer located in the Midwest, is also using creating some unique designs with typography. His type and package design for Legacy Chocolates taps into the warmth and comfort that homemade chocolates can provide, and are complemented by small "needlepoint" details.

This is one of designer Cameron Moll's letterpress posters, "handcrafted character by character over the course of roughly 100 hours." The Salt Lake Temple is formed by the typefaces Bickham Script Pro, Engravers MT, and Epic. The Salt Late Temple is the largest and best-known temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A polymer plate was created with the raised plastic of the reversed design. A perfect example of text as image... gone OCD.