RP is a small scale digital type-foundry established in 2009 by Radim Peško. The foundry is focused on the development of fonts that are both formally and conceptually distinctive.

Jesse Harris, Bachelor of the Arts.
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Lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Where he was born in 1981.

Just received a lovely type specimen book (Specimens of typefaces from the Klim type foundry 2009) through the post. Klim are a type design, and foundry based in Wellington, New Zealand and produce exquisite type for sale as well as custom commissions. I really like the Maori influenced letterforms of 'Methven Flow' & 'Depero'. Kris Sowersby graduated from the Wanganui School of Design in 2003. After brief employment as a graphic designer he started the Klim Type Foundry in 2005. The Klim Type Foundry markets its typefaces exclusively through Village. Beautiful stuff.
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Image shown – From the 'Sketchbook' section of the Klim site.

I've always been fascinated on my trips to America by the type on the sides of trucks. The more interesting ones to my mind were done in a very DIY fashion. So I was very excited to find this site 'The Journal of Urban Typography' which has some great examples of the vernacular. If anyone has any other examples we'd love to see them, post links in the comments section.

A while ago we received an email from Gary Hustwit the director of 'Helvetica - A Documentary Film' asking our advice on what type i would use for a new documentary he was producing on product design. We replied saying it might be nice to make the letterforms from actual products, he liked the idea, and would we be up for doing it?
We said of course, what's the title?, "Objectified" he says.
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The next few days were spent researching and drawing various iconic, and not so iconic product design that resembled characters, and arranging them into the word. Some were more successful than others, readability was a big factor. We also thought it would be nice to try and reference/use objects that were by people who were going to be in the film (Dieter Rams, Marc Newson, Jonathan Ive amongst many others), there's nothing like making things harder for yourself. I've uploaded a jpeg here of all the versions/revisions we went through before Gary was happy with the final design which can be seen below.
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We've got to say we're really pleased with the result, and Gary? I'm glad we went with the Panton chair :)
More information about the film can be found on the Objectified website.
We also designed a poster and t-shirt featuring the logo, which can be bought from here.

In January this year we were approached by a young man by the name of Charles Grant asking where we got the Dieter Zembsch typeface 'Beans' from, as seen on our T-shirt bags for TypeShop and the postcard set for D&AD. Was it a full typeface & did we plan to release it? he asked. Michael had only redrawn the characters required & no, there were no plans to redraw the full set, sorry. The man was clearly on a mission from then on and set about doing it himself, and now the full typeface has been released by Lineto. There you can read more about Dieter Zembsch, the story of how Beans came into being- and its 2008 revival- and you can of course buy it.

Nice work, Charles Grant, 26, MCR.