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#LDF13 ‘Ornithological’ by Claire Scully

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#LDF13 ‘Ornithological’ by Claire Scully

Scully’s meticulously hand drawn feathers display the level of intricate detail to be found in much her work including her typeface designs. ‘Ornithological’ was drawn late into the night after returning from a trip to the US to avoid dealing with jetlag.

The inspiration for Scully’s self initiated work often comes from my everyday surroundings of the metropolis and its relationship with the natural world. “I love 50’s, 60’s and 70’s architecture particularly tower blocks with their form and location, this is where I also find the connection to nature and natural patterns in the environment of interest.”

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#LDF13 ‘Productive’ by Pat Randle

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#LDF13 ‘Productive’ by Pat Randle of Nomad Letterpress

Letterpress printer Randle has chosen Caslon* to represent London, using 96-point Caslon Italic showing swash alternatives drawn by an Americam designer called T. M. Cleland in the 1930’s for (ATF) American Type Foundries. The CT ligature is printed from a laser cut letter.

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#LDF13 ‘Hungry’ by Nic Hinton

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#LDF13 ‘Hungry’ by Nic Hinton
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London based illustrator and designer Hinton explains that “I chose the word HUNGRY because of the struggle, the ambition, the consumption of London.”

“My hand drawn illustration work tends to look quite random but there is a reason, no matter how thin, behind each mark. Sometimes things don’t turn out as I planned but that’s part of the fun right?…”

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#LDF13 ‘Kyverdale’ by Rude

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#LDF13 ‘Kyverdale’ by Rude

‘Kyverdale’ is the dream home that illustrator and designers Abi and Rupert of Rude have spent the last year building on a plot in Stoke Newington. The house has just been finished and they move in shortly with their two sons BIlly and Herbie. The Type Tasting word is a celebration of their new family home created out of lettering in Rupert’s inimitable style.

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#LDF13 ‘Multicoloured’ by JMG Studio

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“We had great fun! After much deliberation, we decided that with 13 characters in the word ‘Multicoloured’ and the fact there is 13 different colour tube lines covering the whole of London, it was to much of a good an opportunity to miss. We then overprinted each of the letters to make 12 extra colours to make it truly multicoloured.”

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#LDF13: ‘Unique’ by Evelin Kasikov

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#LDF13: ‘Unique’ by Evelin Kasikov

Kasikov’s eclectic mix of letters is designed in true London style—trash, glam, techno, kitsch, vintage and super-modern all happily mixed together. Each letter is different and unique; one is reminiscent of blackletter, there’s a neon-sign letter and kitsch diamond shapes.The letters are embroidered onto paper.

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#LDF13: Getting creative with the London Design Festival and V&A team

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#LDF13: Getting creative with the London Design Festival and V&A team

We recently took our box of creative materials and words down to the London Design Festival offices for an evening of creative unwinding. Things are getting pretty busy as the Festival is getting closer, the Guide is going to print and the events are being finalised. An evening of making ‘creative London’ words accompanied by cold beer was just what we all needed.

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#LDF13: ‘Underground’ by Maria Cox

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#LDF13: ‘Underground’ by Maria Cox

Maria Cox chose the word ‘Underground’ because she has an ongoing fascination with this London icon. For her Type Tasting piece she initially looked at fonts with a curve to them and thought about drawing a train running on railway tracks to create the typeface. She came up with the final idea after sketching thumbnails with different ideas of trains and tracks, and playing with the meaning of the word so that part of the word appeared below ground level.

An accident involving a colleague and some spilt ink led to an unscheduled delay (well it is the underground), but we really like the resulting Hitchcockian blood red ink splattered over the ‘Mind the Gap’ warning.

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#LDF13: ‘Celebration’ by Bárbara Ana Gómez

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#LDF13: ‘Celebration’ by Bárbara Ana Gómez

Bárbara Ana Gómez is a Spanish illustrator who moved to London in 2007. Her Type Tasting submission ‘Celebration’ is an intricate combination of flowing shapes and mischievous faries which were sketched out by hand before being ounlined in pen and ink then scanned in and coloured up in Photoshop.