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Mitea : Logo

Logo (as part of a full identity system) for MiTea, importers of rare teas from around the world.

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New York Type Directors Club : TYPY2K conference materials

Identity development for the New York Art Directors Club first type conference of 2000. This included all the conference materials.

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Buell : Commercial

This 60 second television commercial was done for Buell Motorcycles by director Anders Uhl and Carlos Segura. It features the Buell Lightning.

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NYCO : Two postcard

Postcards created for NYCO's announcement and performance of "Two", their first release.

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Segura : Promotional book

A very limited edition Segura promotional book called "30 pieces" (cd case carrier and slipcase)

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Lesley Spencer : Classical Delight CD

"Classical Delight", one of several releases by Lesley Spencer and part of a re-branding effort for her "Grabriella Music" label.

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Spontaneous Combustion : Logo

Spontaneous Combustion is a special effects and film production company in New York.

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Christina Aguilera : Glitter & Glam CD

Glitter & Glam is a limited edition CD designed to lead students to an animated flash web registration promotional trailer for Christina Aguilera.

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Penske : Logo

Logos for Marlboro's Team Penske Racing team through Leo Burnett.

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Uno : Packaging

A series of labels (on aluminum bottles) for Uno Shampoo creating a series of category specific visuals for their line.

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Illinois Tourism : Custom font

Illinois Now is a quarterly magazine published by the Illinois Bureau of Tourism. They needed an easier way of handling the icons used throughout the magazine and supplemental brochures. They provided the icons in EPS format which we cleaned up and incorporated into a single dingbat font.

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T26 Digital Type Foundry : Tokyo set

Special Events kits produced specifically for the Tokyo Type Directors Club. An evening featuring a presentation by Carlos Segura and honoring the work from T26.

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MCA : Logo

Logo for MCA Records (Music Corporation of America).

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A&M Records : Covers

A&M Records' "White Label" covers project created for previewing new talent.

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T26 Digital Type Foundry : Aluminum Font Book

The very first limited edition "Font Kit" done in 1984. Produced specifically as an introduction to advertising agencies and announcement of the birth of T26. Made out of aluminum.

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37signals : Stationery

As one of the founding members of 37signals, not only did we name the company, but also did the identity system which consists of a variety of elements like business cards, letterhead first and second sheets, envelopes in a variety of sizes, mailing labels, note pads and stickers, to name a few.

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Geffen : Infinite Beat v1

Geffen Records' Infinite Beat Volume 1 "drum and bass" compilations (cd packaging and LPs).

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Q101 : Logo

Logo for Q101, Chicago's "Alternative" radio station.

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Intel : Dual Chip logo

Logo explorations for Intel's new dual chip technology.

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TVT Records : Blackbox poster

Poster promoting "Blackbox", a very limited and special release by TVT Records of the 13-year history of Chicago's WaxTrax Records.

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Corbis : Crop 4 brochure

Crop-4 was the fourth of an ongoing series of very special and limited edition catalogs for the rebranding of Corbis.

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Graphic Design Solutions. 07-29-10. Five of Segura Inc's projects have been included in this Instructor's Edition of Graphic Design Solutions by Robin Landa, and published by Wadsworth. They include branding for Plungees and Lightflow, to event design of the Q101 Slime Ball concert series, to CDs for both Lesley Pencer titled Authentic Flavors, as well as Willie Nelson's "Teatro" release. Read More »

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Typo Berlin 2010. 05-20-10. Carlos Segura will speak at TYPO 2010, May 20-22, 2010 along with some 50 designers and creatives that will show how easy success can be if you trust in your passion. Read More »

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Segura at Flashpoint. 05-10-10. Carlos Segura will present on May 10, 2010 at Chicago's Tribeca Flashpoint Academy in Scott Smith's "The Elastic Mind" advertising and creativity event, and is one of 12 guest speakers in the series. Read More »

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Design in the Moment. 05-06-10. Carlos Segura will be interviewed in the Design In The Moment, podcast hosted by Jim Jacoby and Jim Cohen on May 6th, 2010. Read More »

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Segura joins Designers Studio. 04-05-10. Segura, along with Quim Massana (Known as Segura-Massana) have been invited to join the team at Designers Studio in London, who specialize in producing work for the theatre (plays, musicals, and opera), the music industry, film and television. Read More »

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Life In Perpetual Beta. 04-01-10. After 18 months of filming discussions with the most creative, successful people, Life In Perpetual Beta, is a documentary produced and directed by Melissa Pierce, is near completion. Showcasing the thoughts, views and opinions of (in order of appearance) Chris Saad, Jeffrey Zeldman, Baratunde Thurston, Juliette Powell, Seth Godin, Biz Stone, Brian Solis, Liz Danzico, Xuanlan Nguygen, Carin Goldberg, Lorem Feldman, Jeff Pulver, Gary Vaynerchuk, Liz Strauss, Jim Coudal, Jake Nickell, Jeffrey Kalmikoff, Jason Fried, Tatiana DeMaria, Nova Spivack, Carlos Segura, Kevin Lyman and Dan Pink.

Life in Perpetual Beta is a documentary film about the ways in which technology has/is/will change the ways in which we think about ourselves as individuals and a society. It is exploring the cultural shift that technology creates as it enables people to live less planned and more passionate lives. Read More »

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Parallels Audio Visual. 03-18-10. Carlos Segura will join Carlos Pérez of Elastic People, Paul Forat, VP A&R Sony Music, Photographer Mateo Garcia, and Ed Agudelo, account director at Universal Music as part of the panel discussion at AIGA Miami's Parallels Audio Visual on Thursday, March 18, 2010 in Miami's Design District. Read More »

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Segura in Versus. 03-01-10. Segura is showcased in the 8th issue of Indonesia's Versus Magazine focusing on client relations. Read More »

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Segura at Fresno. 02-08-10. Carlos Segura will make a presentation at The Fresno State Graphic Design Club's Lecture Series at Fresno State on February 18th, 2010 at 6pm. RSVP on Facebook. Read More »

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Humble Pied. 12-01-09. Another great project by Mig Reyes includes Carlos Segura's "single tip" on Humble Pied. Read More »

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uKre8 Advice. 11-23-09. A few thoughts on how to be happy from George, of the VS Project, who is the main contributor to the uKre8 the VS project website. Carlos throws in a few thoughts in the fifth of 16 posts. Read More »

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Form Book & Promotion. 11-10-09. Sandu Publishing's Form "Book & Promotion" book showcases the very special and limited Rock Shox product catalog for SRAM. Read More »

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Design Chat with Segura. 09-01-09. Join Ryan McGovern at 8PM (Central Time) on Wednesday September 9th for a live video chat with Carlos Segura on DesignChat. The chat takes place at Mashable. Read More »

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Harper's Bazzaar Korea. 07-27-09. Harper's Bazzaar Korea "Designer's Room" segment features Segura Inc, among others in the July 2009 issue. Read More »

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AIGA Boston's 51 Posters. 06-12-09. In celebration of AIGA Boston's 25th Anniversary as a chapter, a limited edition of 350 commemorative books 51 Posters showcases 25 years of AIGA Boston's history through a treasury of the chapter's even posters (of which Segura's 1998 lecture is featured). Read More »

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Racetracks. 04-01-09. Carlos Segura and Chris Manfre of Metaphors In Motion have created a font of 111 racetracks from around the work and available from the T26 Digital Type Foundry.
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Grafica Del Caribe. 03-08-09. Carlos Segura will be the keynote speaker at Grafica Del Caribe at the Centro De Convenciones in Puerto Rico, March 13-14, 2009. Read More »

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Jason Wears My Shirt. 03-07-09. Twenty six year old Jason Sadler's "I Wear Your Shirt" project is brilliant, simple and fun. He's selling the upper-half of his wardrobe (shirts), every day of the year at face value, so January 1 is $1 and December 31 is $365. All 365 days without exception! Naturally we wanted to be a part of it so we (Cartype) bought Saturday, March 7th, 2009. Read More »

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Tokyo TDC awards Cartype. 02-13-09. The Tokyo Type Directors Club's 2009 Annual Awards competition has recognized Cartype out of 3,316 entries from all around the world. Read More »

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New (old) Segura logo.. 02-01-09. A very short history of our new (old) Segura logo. Read More »

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Big Book of Brochures. 01-01-09. While the Crop series of brochures for Corbis and the very limited edition catalog for Rockshox are both a few years old, they continue to garnish recognition in our industry and are both featured in this comprehensive book published by Collins Design. Read More »

Seen & Noted

[07.19.10]
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Nice little blurb seen on a restaurant's menu.

Blog

[09.02.10]
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Our MiTea bizcard is one of 40 Cool Business Cards to Enliven Your Creativity.

[09.01.10]
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For September, T26 announces the Virus collection founded by Jonathan Barnbrook, featuring a few of their creations, like Drone, Tourette, Bastard, Delux, Sarcastic, State Machine, Shock & Awe, and Apocalypso.

[08.30.10]
[08.22.10]
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Lula Café in Chicago's Bucktown will have an opening reception on August 24 from 6–9 pm to view their summer art show featuring artists' interpretations on the theme of car engines. Co-curator Anders Nilsen invited artists to come up with work which responds to the idea of a car's engine.

[08.22.10]
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The most influential of all silent films — and a blueprint for future classics like Blade Runner and The Matrix — Fritz Langs visionary Metropolis can finally be seen as intended, with 25 minutes of newly-discovered footage and Gottfried Huppertzs magnificent original score. The addition of this astounding new material (1,257 shots, including entire new sequences), carefully restored and edited into the 2002 restoration, results in the closest rendition ever seen since the films 1927 Berlin premiere.

[08.21.10]
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A Winnebago salesman whose hilarious, foul-mouthed outbursts circulated on VHS tapes in the 90s before turning into a full-blown Internet phenomenon in 2005.

[08.15.10]
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A trip of Lisbon's seven Hills made in a classic convertable UMM (Portuguese Jeep). An unforgettable ride.

[07.31.10]
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August's featured fonts from T26 include Suomi Slab Serif and Tobacco by Tomi Haaparanta, Default Gothic by PsyOps, Croog and Cargo TRF by Ramis Guseynov, Changeling by Mark Simonson, Marquer Script by Segura and Ramac, Amorpheus by Ryan Hughes.

[07.29.10]
[07.28.10]

Basecamp

[07.24.10]
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There is nothing that can match the feeling on a bike. Especially when there are bright blue skies above you with just a hint of a few fluffy clouds.

[07.14.10]
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I love this new "The Most Interesting Man In The World" campaign for XX beer, played by actor Jonathan Goldsmith. Great music, film and writing. Even the voiceover is just perfect. Very well done.

[07.14.10]
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Racetracks by Carlos Segura and Chris Manfre is a tribute to 111 of the best known tracks in the world.

[07.14.10]

Backpack

[07.07.10]
[07.01.10]
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July's featured fonts from T26 include Creamy Script by Franck Montfermé, Refrigerator Deluxe and Mostra by Mark Simonson, Neubau by Ramiz Guseynov, HushHush by Comicraft and Ticketbook by Tomi Haaparanta.

Also featured this month is SketchType - Volume 2, by The Organic Type, which includes 20 original hand-drawn type sets in 60 files (300 dpi, transparent grayscale, Photoshop PSD format). It makes it easy to incorporate the texture of hand-drawn lettering into any project without ever picking up a pencil.

Additionally, Stalker is a collection of 52 illustrations by Katey Rafanello and they are just hilarious.

[06.30.10]
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A secret live performance that was held in Tokyo. Hifana is playing music with Nike's flexible running shoes, Nike Free Run+.

[06.30.10]
old spice man
Very funny spot for Old Spice.

[06.25.10]
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T26 is now on Twitter so follow us for great type tips.

[06.25.10]
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T26 is now on Facebook so lets be friends follow us for great type tips.

[06.25.10]
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Created by graphic designers for graphic designers, SketchType™ Vol. 2 makes it easy to incorporate the texture of hand-drawn lettering into any project without ever picking up a pencil.

[06.15.10]
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Frogman Tim Cotterill's amazing Rocket II Custom Trike.