Category: Typography

12 articles

Font Sunday: Horror – review as Hallowe’en guest host

23/04/2016

Wow, it’s already 6 months since I guest hosted the Design Museum’s weekly typographical Twitter jamboree #FontSunday. If you’ve never come across #FontSunday before, every Sunday from 12 noon, type geeks gather on Twitter to share typographical images based on […]

Here we go on an Adventure with Letters… come join me!

26/02/2016

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Typelark, Typography

by Zoë Chan

Here we go on an Adventure with Letters… come join me!

A big warm welcome to Typelark! Zoë here, it’s taken a while for me to get a blog going, but here it is at last. I’ve started off with some posts I wrote for another website but they are, to […]

Signwriting with Ray Howell at House of Illustration

26/01/2015

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Signage, Typography

by Zoë Chan

Signwriting with Ray Howell at House of Illustration

You may realise now how much I love traditional signwriting (or signpainting for those on the other side of the pond). Well I wasn’t going to pass up the opportunity to join a workshop with prolific signwriter Ray Howell at […]

An Ode to Signwriting

08/04/2014

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Signage, Typography

by Zoë Chan

I’ve been super excited to have been to a few events recently concerning the traditional skilled craft of signwriting (also known as sign painting). At one time all signs were hand crafted by trained sign writers – shop fronts, windows, […]

A celebration of the beauty of Chinese signage

31/01/2014

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Signage, Typography

by Zoë Chan

A celebration of the beauty of Chinese signage

新年快樂! Happy New Year! It’s Chinese New Year (now the Year of the Horse), so I thought I’d be a little self-indulgent here and share some of the photos I’ve taken combining two massive loves in my life – Chinese […]

Ghost Signs – A talk at St Bride by Sam Roberts

25/11/2013

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Signage, Typography

by Zoë Chan

Ghost Signs – A talk at St Bride by Sam Roberts

One of my highlights this week was attending a talk I’d been waiting to see for a very long time – Ghost Signs by Sam Roberts, at the gorgeous St Bride Library. I just wanted to share some of the […]

50 years of the Doctor Who logo

22/11/2013

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Typography

by Zoë Chan

Happy Anniversary Doctor! I’m very excited about Doctor Who’s 50th Anniversary this weekend, I’m a big fan (my favourite, and I believe the quintessential Doctor, is the one I grew up with, Tom Baker). Anyway, I thought I’d kick-start the […]

Horror films: Original v Remakes = Different graphics!

31/10/2013

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Typography

by Zoë Chan

Horror films: Original v Remakes = Different graphics!

I’m writing about something very on topic today – horror! Yes, it’s Halloween. I was perusing the internet for a good horror film to settle myself in front of this evening, when I noticed the abundance of horror remakes / […]

Type Tasting for The London Design Festival at the V&A

23/09/2013

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Exhibitions, Typography

by Zoë Chan

Type Tasting for The London Design Festival at the V&A

The 2013 London Design Festival came to a close yesterday and it was another amazing year full of awe-inspiring work, but especially for graphics. As you know, I had my own work on display at Type Tasting – ‘Festival’ (see […]

‘Festival’ for Type Tasting at the V & A for the London Design Festival

10/09/2013

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Exhibitions, Typography

by Zoë Chan

‘Festival’ for Type Tasting at the V & A for the London Design Festival

I’m very excited to be part of Type Tasting at the V&A for the 2013 London Design Festival! My chosen word is ‘Festival’. I was inspired by my love of vintage signage and type, especially that found in 19th-mid 20th […]

Fiction Project – another oldie but goody

17/07/2013

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Typography

by Zoë Chan

Fiction Project – another oldie but goody

I just came across another oldie but goodie that I thought might be good to share with you – in 2011 I took part in The Fiction Project organised by Art House Co-op, a global project to create a piece […]

An oldie but goody…

21/06/2013

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Typography

by Zoë Chan

I know it was a while ago, but I’ve just come across this again and thought I’d share it with all you type lovers out there…! Back in 2009 I contributed several pieces to the Type Tarts project, for which […]