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Our next celebratory 2 comes from Lee Wilson. Lee is a designer at the fabulous Bloomberg Businessweek and art director of The Feathertale Review. He’s also a stylish dude — check out those patterned cuffs. 

See all the 2’s (so far) here and buy issue 2 now.

In love with these letters created by The Flower Appreciation Society and photographed by Guy Archard for the Relocated issue of Ideas Illustrated, a quarterly publication produced by the fab YCN. Wouldn’t you love an excuse to make some flowery type like this? Until you’ve got one, buy the issue or check out some fun behind the scenes images from TFAS.

Neat 3D letters for an exhibition on Danish picture books by NR2154.

Trippy magazine carving by Alex Stikeleather. Fantastic.

Very cool typographic illustration by Jules Julien.

Cute foodie promo in the spirit of this holiday weekend from Opening Ceremony—true arbiters of style, taste, and nice type. Yum.

Number series by Alexander Crispin.

Artful set design from Shona Heath for Vogue UK.

6 is a limited edition typographic puzzle kit, which can be folded to form every letter of the alphabet. Available at Once Upon a Fold — an amazing resource for paper products, supplies (I’m so going to use this washi tape in a future stationary project), and novel ideas.

I’ve always wanted to do a project with birthday candles. More here. Maybe this will make the pages of a future issue of GT.

Inspiring stuff from Paris’s A is a name. Particularly digging this series of images for furniture designer Magali Jeambrun. (via The Strange Attractor, who’s newest contributor, Mark Pernice, championed Gratuitous Type in his inaugural post. Awesome.)

A cleverly conceived and executed project from Briton Smith and James Kape (whose lovely self promotional book has been making the rounds online recently). The pair seem to have a knack for conceptualizing and executing three dimensional vignettes like the image above, created for Shore Thing, an annual event at Sydney’s Bondi Beach.