One more of the animations created by Mike Yi that accompany attendees as they mingle and eat cheese sticks while the event starts.

For a lecture hosted at Harvard's Carpenter Center, designed by Le Corbusier, Post Typography designed their lecture poster on a silver foil balloon.

This is only one of hundreds of "after the fact" flyers that Ed has created as souvenirs for attendees of events.

One of our favorite books around UnderConsideration's headquarters is Ed's Letters on America, a persistently addictive collection of Fella's work and polaroid snapshots of the typography in our environment. Before Ed had a web site, this was one of the few printed objects that showcased some of his work too.

A slightly different take on gathering lettering — specifically the 26 letters that make up most of the lettering — is Post Typography's An Exhibition of Hand-Drawn Lettering and Experimental Typography. Curated and designed for Artscape, Alphabets gathered the work of "48 artists and designers [that] conceived and interpreted the alphabet in surprising and inventive ways, ranging from graceful and polished to witty and unconventional." The results can be seen in the catalog, or in the traveling exhibition, currently hoisted in Seattle.

Finding an opposite for Ed would appear to be the simplest of chores, given his highly individual style that yields remarkable new typographic compositions unlike anything else. Pretty much everyone from Bill Cahan, to Kyle Cooper, to Doyald Young, to Mike Perry is a potential opposite — and out of everyone we decided Post Typography would be the best fit.

We looked for someone that was young, with a vested interest in typography and pushing it beyond its typical boundaries, and someone that displayed a conscientious stance on doing things differently out of belief rather than for style — not that any of the designers mentioned above are only stylists. In our minds, Nolen and Bruce fit this criteria through their work: Which always feels accessible and something that designers can strive for, but that always displays an incisive edge, in concept or execution, that sets Nolen and Bruce apart.

To put it in a less wordy way, and as our initial gut reaction: Ed's and Post Typography's work is amazing, it makes us jealous that they can do it so effortlessly, and there is surely some opposite modus operandi going on here.

Thursday, June 12, 2008
6:30-8:30pm
ADC Gallery
106 West 29th Street, NYC

To register for this event, please visit ADC.

We look forward to seeing you again on June 12 with Ed Fella and Post Typography, whose work we will be uploading from here until then in this here web site.

Mike Yi, a talented graduate of Portfolio Center, has been helping us with some animations that will help set the mood at the event while people mingle and eat cheese sticks. Above is one of a bunch of them that will engage in a loop until we say stop.

Sam's letterpressed business cards, a series of four, teach you, among other things, how to tie a tie. [Click on image for a bigger view]

Martin's latest self-promotion is a large, information-heavy, newsprint beauty, featuring, among other things, a cat in "12 New Action Poses"! Shown is the inside spread. Word is that you might be able to get your hands on one of these at the event. [Click on image for a bigger view]

Of all the time spent browsing Martin's portfolio we somehow missed the catalog design for Snapshot Chronicles: Inventing the American Photo Album. Just how awesome is this cover?

Gaining Sam some street cred to pull off the flowchart previously shown here, is the design of The Spider-Man Chronicles: The Art and Making of Spider-Man 3.

Back in March Sam did this op-ed illustration for The New York Times flow-charting the influence of being exposed to Dungeons & Dragons early in one's life. Of course, it all comes back to girls.

Fresh from the oven — sorry, irresistible pun — is this illustration Martin did for the latest issue of Wired magazine. You can see a bigger image, and read why West Coast pizza sucks here.

Poster for Punc't, a series of posters commissioned by Neenah Paper and organized by David Schimmel in 2004. Each poster was a punctuation mark from the alphabet — Sam's was the tilde.

Poster for a 2006 Student Portfolio Review hosted by AIGA LA. The internet does not do this poster justice, specially when you consider that every single letterform was cut and pasted by hand.