While Daan Rietbergen believes leaning into variable fonts for their dynamism and flexibility is going to be of great importance in the type world to come, he’s hasty to add that what seems more important—despite a fast-paced design culture that…
A group of graduates from the University of Reading MA Typeface Design class of 2019/20 have just launched a new website to showcase their final projects. Presenting typefaces spanning a wide range of languages and scripts, the (then) students created…
Zero Posters is an experimental project from Jordan-based Designers Alaa Tameem (@alaatameem) and Tariq Yosef (@tariqyosef). Seeking to tackle stagnation in design, the pair created Zero Posters as an outlet for exploring new techniques and styles, with a focus on…
Stemming from Leonhard Laupichler’s thesis project, New Aesthetic collects, curates and classifies independent type and typography in a way that’s never really been seen before. After the incredible success that was the first edition of New Aesthetic, Leonhard Laupichler and…
Many of David Rindlisbacher’s favourite visual projects are those which spring from a combination of typographic elements and type design within a graphic system. The Swiss/Portuguese graphic designer is based in Lisbon and, between his Swiss approach to graphic design/typography…
Huston Wilson, known as Hust Wilson, is a self-taught graphic designer based in Johannesburg. Growing up in the small community of Eldorado Park, Hust tells us he remembers ‘just wanting to draw and learn different design skills’, and improve his…
Formed of Massimiliano Vitti and Alessio Pompadura, Due Studio are bringing a jagged, sharp edge to the modern serif fonts over at Type Department. Decay White and Slack Light are two new releases bringing a whole new level of expression to…
Quench Variable has got to be one of the most exciting new fonts right now. The super condensed font is the work of Manchester-based MyType Foundry and is one of the most impactful sans displays we’ve seen around. Quench’s tight…
‘Pata Slab is the font we need at the end of 2020; no descenders and all upside’, say In-House International design studio. The studio’s six month old foundry is set to release the font later this week, calling it a…
Ladybird Light, the new creation from Philippines-based type designer Alli Cunanan, is a delicate new font which pairs razor-sharp serifs with incredibly fine hairlines to emulate the elegance of Irish Actor, Saoirse Ronan. Designed with beautiful contrasts and stylistic alternates,…
Hansol.park is a Seoul-based Graphic & Type Designer currently working at Leedotype, producing Hangul fonts and graphic design. Coming across Hansol’s fonts Sum (숨) and Bomsori (봄소리), we couldn’t help but notice the stark contrast between his gentle font styles…
‘By escaping the normative universe and trying to find new contexts and emotions I get influenced to create new typography’, says the freshly graduated Graphic and Type Designer, Rémi Volclair (@rembagram). Already boasting a beautiful stack of typefaces in his…
Based in Budapest, Miklós Kiss (@kissmiklos) is a designer and visual artist with a broad, unconventional approach. Studying at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Miklós started out in the Fine Arts and Painting department and ended up in Graphics;…
Forming the beginnings of an exploration in custom fonts based on personality types, ‘Speculative Type Design’ is the name of Daniel Stuhlpfarrer’s (@dnl_stu) final MA thesis at the University of the Arts Berlin. In the class of Prof. Fons Hickmann,…
‘If BlackJack was a character, a real person, he would be a talented card player with a strong temperament and a great righteousness’ say design studio, My Name Is Wendy (@mynameiswendystudio). BlackJack is their stunning new monospaced sans typeface, and…
