you’re dutch, so if you’re able to read german: check out the last issue of PAGE magazine, the article is named “Typo im Handmade-Look” and can be bought as a pdf i believe here: http://www.page-online.de/archiv/archiv.php?id=64

Unfortunatelly my german is really bad, but thanks anyway!

http://www.backpacker.gr

George Triantafyllakos - backpacker.gr

Mark Simonson’s portfolio and blog.

The Typography and Lettering group on Flickr and the “lettering” tag.

Daily Type (actually mostly lettering) of Russia

not to forget about flag.cc, swiss typographers. also, there was an exhibition about handmade posters in zurich.

handmade
3.5.–29.7.2005, Plakatraum

Graphic take away, Bastien Aubry and Dimitri Broquard,
2003, © Flag

Contemporary graphic design is relaxed about its use of a boundless repertoire of design devices and printing techniques. “handmade” presents posters whose makers have used their own hands for a whole variety of reasons—autonomy, spontaneity, independence or delight in experiment. This can manifest itself in analogue processing of a digital aesthetic, more radically still in the inclusion of solids and material in the making of the poster or in duplicating one by hand. Here handmade is never seen as doing without something, but as a creative necessity. These works are a long way away from retro-romanticism, representing a productive relationship between the designers and their activity. The exhibition brings together Swiss and international works ranging from the vital charm of the imperfect to the most precise and careful work by the artist’s own hands.

and then there’s the annual publication about posters by HGKZ zurich (art-school and museum in zurich), its the second book on this page.

I think underware have something type made from metal and stone on their site too:

www.underware.nl

but being dutch you perhaps knew that already…

Flag is wonderful. Thanks kesh.

Also, examples of serif lettering in Typographica’s Serifs by Hand.

> lover of custom-made type ... no fonts

Then consider calling it “lettering” instead of “type”.
Type is a little machine - without its predefinition
(which notably extends to its White) it’s not type.

hhp

Wow thank you all for replying!
Saw some pretty fresh new stuff!

And kesh, I actually joined that exhibition! (with this little film)
http://www.xelor.nl/xelor/pile.php?pile_name=video_pile&item=eindexamen%...

I tried to uplaod some of my work but somehow it didnt work,
you can check out the typography section on www.unit.nl

thanks again, Job

http://www.flickr.com/groups/_handmade_typography/

:-)

Patrick - I strongly urge that you change the name of your group if you want to be accurate. It looks like a celebration of lettering, not typography.

I concur with Stephen. These areas happen to be closely related, but they are quite different things.

Lettering is a robust and interesting field of its own, without mixing it with typography. It’s certainly a wonderful topic for your flickr gallery.

There is a major definitive difference between Lettering, which is necessarily handmade, individual or one-off, Typography, which is the general use and setting of typefaces (and sometimes lettering) in layouts, and fonts or Typefaces, which are mechanical, repeatable systems, used for typography. Typefaces can be based on hand-lettering, but by definition, they repeat shapes in infinite combinations. Typefaces can come close, but they can’t yet offer the true individual freedom and expressiveness of hand lettering.

People with skills at hand-lettering will appreciate the distinction; their skills are rare and their work adds much expressiveness to the graphic scene, which typefaces cannot provide. I think this is what you celebrate in your image collection!