Superior Type’s lead designer Vojtěch Říha reveals his main sources of inspiration, discusses his collaborations with other Czech type designers, and shares some of the foundry’s plans.
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.
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.
Michael Hochleitner explains how the latest Typejockeys typeface was developed. Like Anika, many of the foundry’s typefaces have grown out of custom projects.
Often in life, our most defining moments of change come to us through a chance encounter. This was certainly the case for the Zurich-based type design studio, Nouvelle Noire.