Shane Bzdok cards featured on Neenah Paper’s, The Beauty of Letterpress

It was such an honor to see my letterpress business cards featured on Neenah Paper’s, The Beauty of Letterpress. Thanks to the extraordinary Jason Wedekind at Genghis Kern who did a truly spectacular job printing the cards. See more photos of the cards as well as the accompanying note cards.

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The Beauty of Letterpress is brought to you by Neenah Paper featuring Crane® Papers as an online resource and showcase, featuring the best and most innovative letterpress work in the industry today. In addition, the community will be assisting the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in their efforts to relocate and effectively salvage a priceless piece of letterpress history. There will be monthly issues curated by prominent designers, highlighting their favorite projects on the site. There will also be an accompanying Beauty of Letterpress Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest, each showcasing the intricate nature of the craft and the incredible results of this printing technique.

Branding the Razorfish Global Creative Summit

In the fall of 2015, I was asked to name and brand the Razorfish Global Creative Summit. The brief mentioned this year’s theme was focused on the culture of startups. With only a few days to get a first round presentation together, I had to move quickly. After some research and sketching, I landed on the name, “Proto;” a prefix that by definition means, ‘first’ or ‘precursor’ — and also a word that inherently has some nice geometry to work with.

You can view additional images on the Proto project page.

Making posters

Screen printing fun with Bearded Lady here in Austin. I'll be putting these up for sale soon. The edition is limited to 50 18x24" prints and is the first design in the Made by Hand™ series celebrating hand crafted art and design.

An untrimmed artist’s proof.

This week’s type crush: Lust

I can’t keep my eyes off this appropriately named serif designed by Neil Summerour and published by Positype in 2012. Some standouts for me are the numerals and the ampersand variants. Beautiful!

From the description on MyFonts : “WARNING! I cannot stress this enough. Please know what you are getting into with this typeface. Like a supermodel, it can’t be squeezed into every situation. It needs room and size to breathe. The regular weights can support 36-point or higher settings, whereas the display weights shine above 72-point (preferably 100-point).”

General Dynamics Space Cards

Wow. I can’t believe I haven’t seen these until now! A set of playing cards from General Dynamics that feature crazy cool illustrations as well as Erik Nitsche’s logo design for GD. Manufactured by National Periodical Publications, Inc in 1964. Would love to learn more about these if anyone has additional info. Would also like to get my hands on a set...

*drool*

Via this isn’t happiness

Add to cart - Monotype relaunches The Recorderd

Looking forward to getting my hands on the recently re-imagined Recorder magazine from Monotype. First published in 1902, The Recorder was originally used to showcase new developments in typography but this time around, the magazine’s focus is exploring type’s role in a wider cultural context. The bold and beautiful redesign was led by Luke Tonge from Life Agency.

Image by Luke Tonge

One of the more drool-worthy teasers I’ve seen is this collection of hand drawn and collaged typography by Stephen Smith. Love.

This 100+ page first issue is a limited print run. Get one before they’re gone!

This week’s type crush: Clearface

I’m a sucker for a chunky serif so when I saw this lovely specimen used in the updated masthead for Makeshift magazine designed by studio Rifle, it was love at first site. Clearface was originally designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1907 for American Type Founders and was enhanced in 1978 when ITC commissioned Victor Caruso to add additional weights and italics.