Linzie Hunter's Spam Art: "One Liners"

Uk illustrator Linzie Hunter goes to town on custom lettering illustrations called Spam One-Liners inspired by spam subject lines.

René Knip, Master of Type

If you are a typophile like me, you already know all there is to know about the work of type-designer/graphic designer/illustrator/product designer/artist René Knip. The thing is, this stuff never gets old and you need to go look again.

Do so whenever you're in a funk or lack inspiration. Called the "Lone Wolf of Dutch Type Design" by graphic design writer Jan Middendorp, René now operates out of a beautiful farmhouse in the rural dutch province of Friesland.


Hema ceramic tile alphabet - personal initiative, in co-operation with merkx + girod architects, 1997
An alphabet initially created as a personal project, resulting in the print shown at left. architect evelyne merkx encouraged knip to further develop it to be used in the new restaurants of the hema department stores. produced at koninklijke tichelaar, makkum.



Cast aluminium house numbers - merkx + girod architects, 1999
Ten house numbers, executed in cast and beaten aluminium. this series of house numbers was a special design for the 15th anniversary of merkx + girod architects. at left is a picture of the complete, raw cast model of the ten figures, and one figure packaged as a giveaway.


Fire basket - gebr.knip, 2001
laser-cut, 65 cm high fire basket. when a fire is lit, one-word poems light up in a constant alternation of hues. see also www.gebrknip.nl