Transporting, Transposing and Translating Meaning

Transporting, Transposing and Translating Meaning

London design studio Spencer Fenton’s founders Haakon Spencer and Matthew Fenton introduced the British Standard Type foundry (BST) and its inaugural collection of typefaces to the public in late 2023, following their initial showcase of custom type projects. They honed their craft and sparked the idea for the type foundry during their MA course in Type Design and Art Direction at ECAL.

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Okay Type: Normal stuff, just done really well

Okay Type: Normal stuff, just done really well

Okay Type is Jackson Showalter-Cavanaugh, a one-person (plus cats) type design studio and foundry in Chicago, USA. Apart from a well-curated retail catalog and custom type design projects, they are specializing in fancy home-made pizza and Laugenbrezel. Indra Kupferschmid interviewed Jackson in the slowest way possible (2/2020 to 11/2023) about life as a graphic designer and type maker.
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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).