Animalphabet is a typographic collaborative project between 16 artists around the world, where each creates a letter formed as a real or invented animal. The letters have joined together as a limited edition poster (only 500 are being printed), and the profit will be donated to Unicef. The artists include:
Tauba Auerbach (US), Lisa Jeannin (BEL), Jan Kruse, Human Empire (GER), Mike Perry (US), Andy Rementer (US), Rui Tenreiro (NO), Stuart White (UK), Maja Sten (SWE), Geoff Mcfetridge (US), Chris Hopkins (JP), Evan B Harris (US), Luke Best (UK), Espen Friberg, Yokoland (NO), Sara Nilsson (SWE), Joseph Hart (US), Nan Na Hvas, Sofie Hannibal (DK), Kristoffer Busch (SWE), Åsa Klingberg (SWE), Christopher Davison (US), Andreas Samuelsson (SWE), Mélodie Mousset, Tatiana Rihs (CH), Holly Stevenson (US), Oscar Bauer, Ewan Robertson (UK), Christopher Green (UK), Megan Whitmarsh (US), and Marcus Oakley (UK).
Details of a few of the letters:
First it was cupcakes, and now it's breakfast cereal. Here is a presidential portrait by Hank Willis Thomas and Ryan Alexiev made with Froot Loops. I suppose it's a Joe Sixpack version of Seurat's paintings?
Here are two designs that sit on entirely different sides of the perfume packaging spectrum. The first perfume, featured in GOOD Magazine, was ironically created by a perfumer who hates perfume. To channel his frustration, Christopher Brosius created a line of pleasant and nostalgic perfumes... "a variety of whimsical, subtle fragrances like 'Winter 1972,' 'I am a Dandelion,' and 'In the Library.'" The design is simple and has a quaint medicinal quality. There is a nice arrangement of typography that emphasizes each unique scent and still the collection as a whole. 
Meanwhile, Le Ettes, a French-Austiran perfume producer, wanted to be just as explicit about its point of view with perfume: "I wanted it to be really girly and colorful and at the same time have a functional and easy system for scalable product lines." Denmark designer Emil Kozak did just that, playing with the circles and dots from the company's logo and using one color for each product line's packaging. According to Emil, the bottles are “lightweight, compact, shatter resistant and re-usable."
The identity for Free the Word, a festival of world literature, was completed by Harry Pearce and his design team at Pentagram. Pentagram designed the identity and the mark for the inaugural festival in 2008. The execution is superb -- animation help from firm AllofUs truly marries the design solution with the name and concept behind the festival. The festival is hosted by International PEN, a worldwide association of writers that promotes international cultural cooperation in literature. Below is the animated version of the logo (used as an identifier at events throughout the festival) and a poster for the event.
DJ Stout and his team at Pentagram (Austin) designed Signs, a collaboration with Texas musician Joe Ely and photographers Michael O'Brien and Randal Ford, which focuses on the issue of homelessness. The book features a series of homeless signs that Ely collected over the years, and his forward recounts his brief experience of homelessness at age 17. The sign collection was photographed by Ford and is juxtaposed with portraits of the homeless that were shot by O'Brien. Here is a sampling of the signs, which show an array of handwriting that when seen together is quite spectacular and awesome.
I haven't been able to post in a long time, so the upcoming posts will be a collection of seemingly random images that caught my eye over the past few weeks: A typographic world map. Very clever design, but the random breaks in typography impede legibility. I also think that the monotone colors are too grim-- the background color (water) should have been more set off from the land
