TLD / 2009 Fold / 24.12.2009
The Letter D will be taking a whole week off from December 24 to January 4. Crazy huh?
TLD / Shillington Guest Lecture / 12.10.2009
Dan Pike has presented his design influences and ideas at a guest lecture for Shillington College’s part-time graphic design students.
The website has taken a brief hiatus with a bundle of new projects underway, including an identity refresh for Metropolitan North School Sport; a name, identity and collateral suite for a sustainable property services business; and a number of other updates – so stay tuned.
TLD / QCA Print Lecture / 07.09.2009
Dan Pike was asked to talk about The Letter D’s print-based projects for the Queensland College of Art’s second year Print students – and so the whole lecture was centred around the studio’s ongoing work for Fine Print.
TLD / Creative Interview / 31.07.2009
The August issue of Australian Creative features an interview with The Letter D’s founder Dan Pike.
TLD / Shillington Guest Lecture / 07.07.2009
Dan Pike has presented his design influences and ideas at a guest lecture for Shillington College’s full-time graphic design students.
TLD / Font Stencil turns pixel / 12.06.2009
Font Stencil, originally built for a Flash vector library from a square and a quarter of a doughnut, is now available from FontStruct as a screen-based pixel variant. © Dan Pike.
TLD / Font Space 2009 / 06.06.2009
While creating the full signage suite for Lightspace a block typeface presented itself within the exposed blockwork walls onsite, which we’ve used as a bold contrast to the tubular identity, drawn in Font Route.
Using FontStruct‘s engine Font Theo Fine‘s upper-case was altered, bevelling the corners of each block, with various symbols revised and the toilet pictograms added.
The typeface has so far been used on the Lightspace website and various collateral.
TLD / QCA Guest Lecture / 11.05.2009
Dan Pike was asked to present his design influences and ideas at a guest lecture for the Queensland College of Art‘s second year Typography students.
Later in the year Melbourne-based designers Stephen Banham and David Pidgeon will present so the students should be in for a treat.
TLD / Font Pixel family grows / 17.04.2009
The whole Font Pixel family came together over the Easter break, with a bold weight, small caps, oblique (italics) and a set of old-style (non-lining) numerals added – and to top it all off, the team at FontStruct have given it ‘Top Pick’ status…
As Trade Gothic (the typeface Font Pixel was based on) lacks a true italic, an oblique version was created, which was heavily influenced by Unibody Italic from Underware – who mastered the illusion of incline using vertically stacked pixels.
TLD / New Year / New Site / 12.01.2009
We decided to start the new year off with a new site.
The old one fared well, we were simply looking to archive as many of our past projects as possible, and connect these in multiple ways, with searchable and tagged content – including the typefaces used throughout.
We built the site with WordPress and have been spending our holiday going through all of the archives uploading more than our fair share of bandwidth, with more to come…
So check it out, subscribe to the RSS, search for treasure, oh and tell your mum.
