Dana Chan (@canofdanchan) is a queer non-binary disabled East Asian femme. Their creative work is delivered through bright colours and vibrant shapes which collect to create, as they say, “artistic commentary on being anxious, disabled and constantly filled with existential…
The dancing glyphs and glitchy atmospheres of Ting-An Ho’s identity for ‘Oops! the fonts went wrong’, a typeface exhibition held at Taiwan Design Museum in Taipei earlier this year, are decidedly jarring. As the exhibition itself demands, the identity confronts…
In art, writing has its place as something that can bring a sense of universal narrative. Whereas the language or writing system might be quite specific, its universality comes from firstly, the visual language of how we ‘dress up’ writing…
Identifying as an anarchist and an anticapitalist, Kevin Yuen Kit Lo is the founder and creative director of LOKI; a small multidisciplinary design studio based in Montreal The studio, he tells us, “works at the intersections of graphic design, cultural…
When we first encountered Gabrielle Widjaja’s (@gentle.oriental) “We Are Still Here” project, a zine built on crowdsourced content from Asian and Asian diasporic communities, we were blown away. Intended to offer a moment of pause, a balm, and a sense…
Yai Salinas‘ (@yaisalinas) latest font, Cleo, is a mixture of Vaporwave aesthetics and modern and retro letterforms. A microgenre of electronic music, Vaporwave emerged as an internet-born aesthetic subculture in the early 2010s, and has since built itself a tongue-in-cheek,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Recycling found materials and trash into energetic, explorative typographic collages, Milan Doctor is a 21 year old designer originally from Hamburg, now based in Kiel. He studies Communication Design at the Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design (MKH), and…
Founder of Arce Studio, Rebeka Arce, is the designer behind the visual identity and book design which accompanies ‘ILUSTRAD A look at female creation in contemporary illustration’. The exhibition, curated by Matilde Rodríguez, is showing at Instituto Cervantes New York…
Sketchbooks can be a joyous outlet for creating freely without constraint. Even if keeping them’s not your thing, a look through somebody else’s – as I’m sure lots of people can relate to – is always fascinating. And with letterforms…
