Fonts In Use: Enjoy your stay
For hotels, typography plays a dual role. As part of the branding, it helps – along with the visuals and ad copy – to convey the right feeling. And for newly arrived guests, there is functional signage to your meeting room, sauna, and bed. This article profiles four unique hotels’ use of typography to tell their stories and set themselves apart.
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Wolfe Hall on process, collaboration and typography
Wolfe Hall is a London based studio founded in 2019. Jason Wolfe and Luke Hall collaborate with national and international cultural institutions and clients working in the arts and academia.
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A Riso-printing primer
Did you ever want to try Riso printing out? This article sums the basics up – especially if you are into lettering and illustration.
Albert Boton (1932–2023)
Since the middle of the twentieth century, Albert Boton’s contributions to type design have been pivotal, especially in France. He passed away last week.
Eduardo Manso: a typography worker
In 2002, Eduardo Manso established Emtype in Barcelona. Since then, Eduardo has designed an impressive number of typefaces published by his independent typefoundry. And then there’s his custom typefaces.
New perspectives on Die neue Typographie
A conference and exhibition at ECAL reassess Jan Tschichold’s most famous book through the lens of contemporary historiography.
An interview with Seb McLauchlan
Seb Mclauchan is one of the most interesting contemporary voices in type design. His practice focuses on multidisciplinarity: willingly bridging between type, graphic design and education. His work gathers cultural potential, and attempts to respond to the fundamental question: What is relevant today?
Fonts In Use: Multiscript
Not long ago, choosing a typeface for a design with “non-Latin” text (or even Latin-script characters outside those used in English) was an easy job: There was simply too little choice.
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Ewan Clayton and Riccardo Olocco present a three-day workshop this May in Brighton (UK), during which participants shall reconstruct Gutenberg’s Textura letterforms with calligraphic tools. Calligraphers and designers are invited to explore this unexplored matter.
La Police has launched a ;new website. You might already be familiar with its Footnotes publication, a periodical dedicated to type design & typography. Thanks to this site update, you can now order back issues or buy a subscription for three Footnotes issues, starting with the latest issue (that’s issue D, which is also new).
For a long time, Eckehart SchumacherGebler was one of the most significant actors in German printing. He built a towering legacy by running several companies, establishing societies, and founding a museum. On December 17th, he passed away, aged 88. The Offizin Haag-Dugulin published an obituary (in German).
Yesterday a new exhibition entitled Italy and Alliance Graphique Internationale. 25 Graphic Designers of the 20th Century opened at the Magazzino delle Idee Trieste. It looks great, and if you can get to Triest, Italy by 6 January 2023, you can see it.