Cake is so last year. The best birthday bashes are all about seriously tasty type. So celebrate our 1st birthday with a calorific 20% off your next slab serif* or whatever else tickles your fancy. The party starts now and lasts until midnight on Friday 18th June and we’re offering our generous 20% birthday discount off EVERYTHING. See what we did there? Slab of cake? Slab serif? No? Ok, doesn’t matter, the moment’s gone. The discount hasn’t though, so get a wriggle on and bag some birthday fontage.

It’s been a year since it all started. I can still remember way back when it was purely an idea I had floating around. Since then, we’ve worked with some fantastic designers, built a D&AD award-winning typeface, hosted two Creative Review magazines, drank endless amounts of coffee, and enjoyed every single minute of it. Along with celebrating our first birthday, I’d really like to thank everyone who has supported us along the way.

Our customers and supporters are the core people who help us give you something better. Without you, none of this would have been possible. So thank you for your continued and much appreciated support. We’re still doing what we always have been, but this year we’re looking at things from a wider perspective. The new site (which I have been promising for ages) is not too far off from completion and will improve everything tremendously, along with the addition of some brand new, never-before-seen site features unique to HypeForType. We’ve also managed to sign 15 new contracts with some of the best foundries around, and our new catalogue will comprise of some fantastic typefaces. So, I’ll leave it there for now and hope you can join us to celebrate our first birthday. Again, thank you for the support!

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.

HypeForType’s Exclusive Faces Volume 02 is at long last live! Featuring beautiful exclusive creations from Non-Format, Research Studios, Suprb, MWM Graphics, and Richard Perez. You can check out the tasty type treats.