I hopped onto the website Type Theory and was immediately greeted with exceptional typography sketches and journaling’s. This grabbed my attention because through my Typography class we are assigned to fill a sketchbook with inventive and creative expressions of type so we can become familiar with fonts. Here was something I could relate to.
Type Theory is a “journal of contemporary typography featuring news, views, reviews and interviews.” Ty Wilkins, a graphic designer, founded the type blog in 2009 and features the type journals of any individual’s work that catches his eye. The home page has type news listed as well as a featured blog post by Mandy Collins. She posted several pictures of Steven Hellar and Lita Talarico’s Typography Sketchbook which is a collection of creative type drawings illustrated by hundreds of individual graphic designers. Each page is filled with colorful images and brief paragraphs about their creative process. The sketchbook is designed to inspire artists and designers all over to create type designs with creative twists, styles, and techniques, expressing their philosophy through art and design.
