Another year has come and gone, and it’s officially our second birthday! To celebrate we’ve decided to share the birthday love with you for 6 whole weeks. Put simply, it’s our birthday bash goodie bag giveaway.

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There’s not many legends of cool from the 90s that you can honestly say are still hip now. Not many at all…except Büro Destruct. Edgy, progressive, slick – a hothouse of talent that is the Switzerland design studio – geniuses of the crafted letterform, blurrers of the line between art and commercial graphic design… now available at HypeForType. Honoured, inspired and just a little bit awestruck, all come as standard with a Büro Destruct face.

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People say the remake is never as good as the original. Well. People are wrong. HypeForType is back (ok, it hasn’t really been anywhere) and this time it’s bigger, better and it’s spankingly gorgeous.

Oh yes you may well peruse its perfect pages in a carefree manner, drinking in its effortless beauty. But let me tell you, effortless is something it wasn’t, Far from it. A brand new online shopping experience with oodles of functionality including PDF quotes. Wishlist. Whizzy homepage carousel for fontal flickery and the fastest typeface browsing in the west. 500 new font families including classic, contemporary, sans, serifs, hand drawn, all beautifully photographed. New font collections, stacks of tasty types in a great value package. And too much more to spill here, just get on it and find out for yourself!

Just one last thing. If you’re an existing customer, we’ll need you to sign up again. Sigh. I know. We’re sorry. New system, new rules, but we think it’s worth a quick bit of admin for our new typographic treats!

Seems another D&AD treat has popped up as one of the first exclusive typefaces we worked solidly on to build with Alex Trochut’s beautiful design, (Neo Deco) has won an in book award for typography.

A non-profit DAHRA (designers against human rights abuse) typography book entitled 3Minutes featuring 10 artists (Bibliotheque, Brighten The Corners, Stefan Ghandi, Alex Haigh, Nick Hard, Jeff Knowles, Abbott Miller, Si Scott, Paul Skerm, Un.titled) including myself, aimed at helping to show the full extent of the Tibetan conflict through 10 diverse and extremely powerful 3-minute interviews just won a D&AD in book award for Typography. It’s an honor and quite humbling to be part of such a superb project.

It’s also fantastic to see one of the most passionate guys I know (Rishi Sodha) and DAHRA founder, get the recognition he deserves for bringing superb concept and execution to life, in the form of the 3Minutes book.

Finally after much anticipation, TypePong our site opening flash game 10 months ago has now undergone a full make over. This time it’s for the iPhone, and this time it’s more addictive than ever. It’s a retro resurgence with a modern twist. Pong is back. But not just any old Pong. Oh no. It’s TypePong my friends. Pong. With type. This time, it’s on the iPhone, and as one of the most addictive games out there, we’re sure you’ll be able to find hours of type teasing fun.

We’ve built a lovely little TypePong site, for this special occassion.

A week-long programme of typographic study in London for recent graduates and professionals. Alongside live projects run by Fraser Muggeridge, the school will host talks, seminars and tutorials from daily visiting practitioners:

Sara De Bondt, Paul Elliman, Ken Garland, Jeff Knowles
(Research Studios), David Pearson, Robert Sollis (Europa).

20 places are available for each week:
5-9 July 2010
12-16 July 2010

For more information visit Typography Summer School

Posted by: Jeff Knowles – RS

We understand how busy people are these days, and time is precious. As you may well know, we are currently working on a brand new site to make these matters, a thing of the past.

However, if you are in a rush before this, it may well be worth taking a look at our Cargo Collective account. It’s probably the most simple and easy to use tool to find exactly what you are looking for.

A lot is going on at HypeForType at the moment. We’re working on a brand new website, a selection of fresh type idents, and currently sourcing and scouting some of the hottest new typefaces.

As you can clearly see, the new blog has been launched prior to all of these developments, and with this we’re delighted to announce our first Special Guest Editor. Introducing a studio that has not only inspired thousands of graphic designers, but also set the bench mark for prolific and beautifully executed typography within graphic design.

We’re delighted to welcome the legendary Research Studios on board.