The letter B - Playtype

Home Display Bold Italic -poster available through the Playtype Concept Store located in Copenhagen.

The letter A - Playtype

Wavebold - poster available through the Playtype Concept Store located in Copenhagen.

PDU Stencil

Stencils certainly have a huge place in my heart.  To my delight, this stencil, or rather font, is called PDU and allows you to create all letters, numbers and symbols from one universal grid.  Designed by Dries Wiewauters of Colophon Type Studio..... it certainly could create endless hours of playing.

 

Above: Newspaper from Colophon explaining the history and rational behind the PDU font.  Based on the original idea (Joseph A David in 1876) of a stencil system that could be used universally by sign makers -  .

Otsuki-Sama font

 

  Otsuki-Sama font. The result of a Swiss graphic designer living in Japan.  Designed by Julien Mercer. 

Images via SoFiliumm blog.

Alphabet - part 1

Dainnipon Type Organization - Toypography
Endless creative hours with these wood blocks from Dainnipon. Blocks can be configured 3 ways - to spell a word in English, Japanese character or to form the shape of the word being spelled. Genius. Posted this a few years ago, but the post seems to have disappeared. Hopefully, this will be new to some of you.

re-found via aisukuriimu blog.

Alphabet - part 2

Vintage wood alphabet ("alphabo") set.
Shapes configure into symbols and then to meaning.


from Agence Eureka via Mrs Easton blog.