A forging of two powerhouses; type and technology specialist Monotype® has announced its planned acquisition of the prestigious Tokyo-based foundry Fontworks™. This follows the increasing global demand for Japanese type design and the growing need for multi-script typefaces for Japanese…
Time is a valuable asset in the creative industries. Whether you’re a busy freelancer on a tight deadline, or a recent graduate raring to get your work out into the world, it feels like there’s never quite enough of it.…
The Type Directors Club (TDC) is delivering a grand conference right around the corner, next Friday, March 3rd, and Saturday, March 4th. The main conference will be held virtually, gathering speakers from all over the continent and abroad allowing anyone…
At the end of 2022, the full-service design studio Pràctica released the grand campaign of redesigning the Wine label 9+ a wine label whose name is a number, not a word. The Winery, based in Catalonia, Spain, had 15 labels…
The undeniable proximity of typography and graphic design is always what balances a good studio. London-based agency Range Left is becoming known for its exciting approach to type design, working across a variety of sectors from beauty and interior design…
Home of contemporary typefaces that build on top of historical models and cultural legacy – Hot Type, founded by Marko Hrastovec based in Croatia’s capital Zagreb, is a Foundry and Design Studio equipped with typefaces that explore novelty and history…
The Netherlands-based type design studio Typotheque published recently two new Latin Typefaces: Rapida and Rapidissima. Originally created by the Italian Type Designer, Michelangelo Nigra, the idea of separating Rapida from Rapidissima is to investigate how italic, a system of cursive…
Mixing a lovely and loud colorful expression, the Stockholm-based coffee farming project, Lykke Kaffegårdar (Lykke Coffee farms) balances out its packaging identity through bespoke type fused illustrations, images, and lots of colour. The choice of using type to express the…
All eyes are on the very cool newly released Type Foundry Hard Type – and its trials to be available soon. The project, founded by the Spanish type designer Laura Garcia Mut, aims to create an organic connection between her…
For decades, police have championed less-lethal munitions as life-saving alternatives to deadly force. Their history, however, show us a different side. It was inspired by telling the story behind such a powerful, and yet not very explored subject, that the…
What comes to mind when thinking about New York? The city is commonly known as the “city of lights”, never sleeping, great fashion sense, and multiculturalism. All these known facts were translated into the kinetic-type animation campaign to open HYBEBEAST’s…
Despite the perception of abundance we often operate with under modern consumerism, it is well known that many of our resources are becoming less and less available. Resulting in a savage race for said resources – from construction materials, paper and…
In celebration of the world’s writing systems, Brazilian Designer Filipe Peregrino (@filiperegrino) has been fusing multi-script type with augmented reality to create a one of a kind exhibition. Entitled The Languages Around Us, the exhibition highlights the diversity of typography,…
Ilya Bazhanov (@staticolors) is an artist, graphic designer and member of Umprum Type (@umprumtype). His work is heavily influenced by old Slavonic typefaces and specimens as well as industrial Slavic cityscapes, history and culture. FUD Grotesk is constructed with a…
KNF Damryl, newly released on Type Department, is the brainchild of Azerbaijan-based Graphic & Digital Designer, Kenan Nasibov. This monospaced display font has a bold, robust character and sits comfortably as a modern geometric sans serif. Created with inspiration from…
