The GFUS* artwork crates.

Close up of the Morning Breath print

Jeremyville

Hedof

Dvate

Lister

Shida

Jumbo, HaHa, Ears, Stormie Mills

Everfresh at NGV

Everfresh at NGV

Everfresh at NGV

LO-FI Collective is a week-to-week showcase of Australia’s leading low brow artists, designers and photographers. The 6 month initiative is a rare move to support this exceptional home-grown art movement. LO-FI Collective is part gallery and part studio featuring a selection of resident artists to both produce and exhibit weekly in the space, and has been provided at no cost or commission to the artists.

Be sure to keep updated through the blog as these future exhibitions at Lo-Fi are promising to be amazing. Some of the future shows include Meggs, TwoOne, Numskull, Beastman, Go Font Ur Self* and many many more to be confirmed. Stay tuned.

The 3rd and final interview is with one of the most exciting artists to participate in the GFUS* series……Above . A guy that has been all over the globe painting his witty sayings and slogans on walls and anything he can find worthy of a bold message. Enjoy…

1. Describe yourself in a word

ABOVE

2. Describe your typography?

BIG/BOLD/SITUATIONAL/FUNNY/WITTY/COLORFUL/DAYS TO FINISH.

3. Do you adhere to the rules and regulations  of typography, or make up your own?

NOPE, I MAKE MY OWN RULES. I LOVE TO STRETCH AND TWEAK LETTERS AS I SEE FIT (SEE PHOTO OF PIECE IN LIMA, PERU)

4. What artists / typographers have influenced you in your recent work.

OLD AMERICAN ADVERTISMENTS AND HAND PAINTED BILLBOARDS FROM THE 50′S AND 60′S. I LOVE THAT SHIT.

5. What is the most acclaimed project you have worked on?

NOTHING.

6. what is it about typography that you love?

MAKING A STATEMENT OR JOKE LOOK GOOD.

7. What is your favourite letter and why?

Aa  because its the beginning of the end.

8.  serif or san serif ?

I shot the sherrif.

Check out more of Above’s work here.

Today’s interview is with Timba Smits. A man that is busier than helvetica, and more talented than Rockwell. If it’s innovative type you’re after, check out Timba here here and here.

1. Describe yourself in a word

BUSY!!!

2. Describe your typography?

A double scoop of Nostalgic inspired hand drawn and computer designed
retro flavoured type topped with subtle textures and grainy goodness.

3. Do you adhere to the rules and regulations  of typography, or make up
your own?

To be honest, i don’t even know the rules and regulations of type.
Call me dumb or call me stoopid but i just go with the flow and try to
have fun with it wherever i can. Rules seem to suck the fun out of
most things in my book.

4. What artists / typographers have influenced you in your recent work.

I’m a big fan of Gary Taxali, Nate Williams and Allan Sanders. Each
for their own classy use of type combined with thoughtful vintage
imagery.

5. What is the most acclaimed project you have worked on?

Wooden Toy Quarterly!!! The only quarterly magazine to come out once a
year and proud of it! haha!

6. what is it about typography that you love?

It’s uber challenging! It drives me up the wall most of the time but i
like that and enjoy working with type more than most other things.
Sometimes i feel it’s like a wild stallion that cannot be controlled!

7. What is your favourite letter and why?

The kind that you get from a girl saying that she loves you!

8.  serif or san serif ?

I like both. But i guess i tend to use more San Serif type in my work.

9. what can we expect to see soon from you? Other projects, shows, etc.

The launch of Wooden Toy the music edition in April combined with the
Lyrics & Type 2 exhibition in London, followed up by the worldwide
launch of Street/Studio, a book i’m working on with Thames & Hudson
about Melbourne Street Artists and badda bing, badda boom, a solo show
in August in London and possibly Melbourne.

Check out Timba’s work at one of the Australia wide openings of Go Font Ur Self*

We thought the best way to kick things off would be with one of Australia’s hardest working graffiti artists “Saynt”. If you live in Sydney, you should have come across his walls around the inner west for sure.

1. Describe yourself in a word

Stress

2. Describe your typography?

Some formal training as a designer and signwriter can be seen in there somewhere, however being a total graffiti junkie is probably a bigger influence on my work, and I bounce between commercial, ‘public’ styles and mashed up classic graffiti flavours.

3. Do you adhere to the rules and regulations of typography, or make up your own?

I have more rules governing my graffiti than type based projects- White keyline, in-line, highlights and ‘piano keys’ should be punishable by death!

4. What artists / typographers have influenced you in your recent work.

This work is some kind of response to all the toy panels and graffiti in general I have seen over the last few years, just wanted to drop a bomb on some suckers and no digital type I could come up with was angry enough to do the job so I bashed out a rough ‘face’ that looked like a death-threat… in blood!

5. What is the most acclaimed project you have worked on?

By day I am a community artist working on many projects with disadvantaged kids, watching them bash out their first wobbly looking piece and get psyched on graff is the best job going.

6. what is it about typography that you love?

26 letters can describe anything, and good typography is icing on the cake

7. What is your favourite letter and why?

The ‘S’- it’s so dope, whether it’s some QS with a No.6 sign brush, on screen in Adobe or pumping out a wildstyle piece, the ‘S’ is just too good, you can do so much with it.

8.  serif or san serif ?

Old school, New School- I cut out of school fool, its about whatever gets the job done.

9. what can we expect to see soon from you? Other projects, shows, etc.

Pieces, lots of pieces.

More on Saynt here

Espo

Jumbo / Daren Newman

Letman / Brett Stenson

All City Media

Marta Cerda / Keepa

Skael / Paul Tooth

Eine / Dave the Chimp

Rime

Rime

Junko Azukawa / Jessica Hische