House Industries

Self Licking Promotion

Mark Borden — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:14:07 -0400

For purveyors of the Gutenbergian craft of typeface design, the folks at House Industries can execute new products at an impressive pace. Fast Company readers know House as the font provocateurs we profiled in our October Masters of Design issue. Less known is the company’s clothing side project, done under the House 33 logo. I discovered the line's latest samples when a box appeared on my desk containing a couple of fresh new t-shirts.

A Behind the Scenes Peek at Making the "Typographreaks" Font

Andy Cruz — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:58:13 -0400

So here’s a behind the scenes peek at one of the most ridiculous lettering jobs we’ve done to date. When the editors at Fast Company told us they wanted to call their House Industries article “Typographreaks”, naturally we had to venture to the source of all freaky goodness, Mr. Rick James.

Rick’s Red boots = Awesome.

The Masters of Typography: House Industries

Mark Borden — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:30:14 -0400

Like all good subversives, House Industries hides in plain sight. As typeface designers, they operate in a niche typically reserved for highbrow gentlemen in handmade spectacles who spend their years deriving new fonts from the 16th-century French master Claude Garamond.