The Typeface for Moscow’s Oldest Cinema Was Inspired by the “Elusive Soviet Art Deco”

Name: CoFo Cinema1909 Designer: Liza Rasskazova Foundry: Contrast Foundry Release Date: Autumn 2020, for exclusive use by Moscow’s Khudozhestvenny Cinema until Autumn 2022 Back Story: Design challenge: create a wordmark for the more than 20-character long name of a cherished cultural institution. In 2019, Anna Kulachek, art director of Moscow’s Strelka Institute, commissioned Contrast Foundry to do just that for the landmark Khudozhestvenny Cinema....