Salford Type Foundry

A type foundry keen to explore and champion the slightly abnormal, possibly unusable, deeply irregular fonts, as well as the more considered.

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Quite an Xy day going on ideas sketches for @tedxsalford from #mundaneaday http://tedxsalford.com #tedx #tedxsalford #lettering #graphicdesign #handrendered #typography

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New Salford Type Foundry website, featuring new typefaces, interviews, essays and blog posts. Become a contributor by submitting your typefaces.NOW LIVE

www.salfordtypefoundry.co.uk

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Been playing around with one of my typefaces that i’ve designed, trying to come up with some concept for specimen posters. 

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3rd Year Salford Student John Booth

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Glossary of Design Terms

I love these little design booklets by Turkish designer, Volkan Olmez. They were created for presentation at the Turkish Society of Graphic Designers. Each colourful pocket size book describes a common design term such as Amorphous, Contour, Transform or Vector.

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ALPHABETIC

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Tom Dorsett

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Gemma Anderton- Freaky Font

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Illustrated Type - Cindy Tan

http://www.behance.net/cindyt

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BLOCKLETTER TYPE.

Lowercase Complete

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Spirograph typeface

Animated typefaces by animography.net

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Emily Waddecar

'Revive' - Typographic Extinction

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Jason Henderson

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Slavoj Žižek

Over the course of a year, I researched and created ZXX, a disruptive typeface which takes its name from the Library of Congress’ listing of three-letter codes denoting which language a book is written in. Code “ZXX” is used when there is: “No linguistic content; Not applicable.” The project started with a genuine question: How can we conceal our fundamental thoughts from artificial intelligences and those who deploy them? I decided to create a typeface that would be unreadable by text scanning software (whether used by a government agency or a lone hacker) — misdirecting information or sometimes not giving any at all. It can be applied to huge amounts of data, or to personal correspondence. I drew six different cuts (Sans, Bold, Camo, False, Noise and Xed) to generate endless permutations, each font designed to thwart machine intelligences in a different way.I offered the typeface as a free download in hopes that as many people as possible would use it.

http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/2013/06/20/sang-mun-defiant-typeface-nsa-privacy/

[samdwyatt-blog]

Today I went to pick up some more screen printed designs that I did for the Salford Type Foundry brief, and I managed to get a few shots of the printing process…

Shout out to Joel at Anchor End for sorting us out with the prints  These prints will be available to purchase soon, all of which are signed and numbers by hand. Message me if you’re interested.

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Create your own 3D papercraft Salford Type Foundry logo by downloading the template dropbox.com/s/9svkchedxds8msi/STF_3dlogo.pdf

watch the video

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Check out the website for this years degree show for BA (Hons) Graphic Design at Salford University. Lots of type projects!!