Guta Cafe’s name is derived from Vietnamese slang, in which “gout /gu” in French and “ta” in Vietnamese are pulled together into a term meaning “our style.” The cafe being a hotspot for Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) city-dwellers, they wanted the new…
Tasked with designing an identity and custom font for an exhibition exploring sustainable fashion, Natalia Radnaeva has recently created an innovative custom font inspired by 3D printing, which will soon be available for purchase online. The young graphic designer is…
Roma Serif is an imaginative, decorative display typeface freshly released from the incredible Alli Cunanan. Being upper-cased focused, Roma Serif is beautifully designed to create a strong, elegant impact across various display settings. Alli has undoubtably been making some of…
This series of typographic animations from 21 year old graphic designer Haris Mahmood (@harisism_) is not only visually powerful, but profound, considered and important. Working from Islamabad, Pakistan, Urdu is Haris’s favourite script to work in—becoming a source not only…
Founded by Wayne Fearnley, MyType creates typefaces to lead the way in modern design without dropping the lessons of the past. Having previously released the beautiful yet subtle Metrik, the elegant stencil Céline, and the super bold condensed display Quench…
With an interest in graffiti having paved his way to becoming a graphic designer, it’s not surprising that Benjamin Kohl’s textual, experimental lettering has generated so much buzz. Now living in Munich with his wife and two kids, he runs…
We bring you an artifact of our fast-moving, motion-filled kinetic typography culture, designed to transform the way you engage with printed matter. Focusing on kinetic (moving) type, Issue 02 speculates on the motion-filled design world of the present (and future),…
In this series of Chinese typographic posters, Syuan Yun (@sythewoman) has been flexing her capabilities in typography—as well as the potential of the characters themselves—to explore the resonances between Chinese type and the culture, aesthetics and visual languages of Taiwan.…
Growing up surrounded by visual conversations bouncing around the streets of Chennai, India, Visual Artist and Graphic Designer Girivarshan Balasubramanian says that for a long time now, he’s been absorbing the posters plastering the city’s walls and growing increasingly fascinated…
Blending the strength of the grid and the essence of the grotesk, Due Studio have just come through with Analo Grotesk, an unconventional pixel font that breaks away from the norm. With its modules rotated by 45 degrees in the…
It goes without saying that good web design is central to brand communications, and in a sporadically locked-down world, it’s become even more essential. So today, we’re speaking to Helsinki-based Designer and Art Director Marina Veziko – the creative behind…
For Christoph Koeberlin, creating Pangea grew as a project in response one pivotal question: how can a typeface improve the world? He wanted to prove, to designers and the public alike, that those in the (type) design industry have the…
Perhaps the most defining element of Dae Huen Lee (Quicknap.zzz)’s new display typeface, Gosna, is its rhythmic, poetic fluidity and the deliciously intwining ligatures which follow. A musician as well as a designer, Quicknap.zzz says, ‘The design of Gosna font…
Like music, Rio de Janeiro-based (although currently remote) type design studio Plau believe that type has the power to spark conversations, bring people together and move ideas forward. This conviction sits fittingly with their recent work for Brazilian TV channel,…
Celebrating the fifty year anniversary of Picasso’s donation of hundreds of works to the city of Barcelona in 1971, Picasso. Els Quaderns is an exhibition running from December 2020 – April 2021 at the Museu Picasso de Barcelona. Exploring the…
