Hast knives are designed and engineered to make everyday cooking playful and more enjoyable. Hast powder steel knives are truly uncompromising: extremely sharp and with a timeless look, they require very little maintenance....
Shrenik Ganatra — Brooklyn, New York, USA
Ganatra is best known for his ADAM.CG Pro typeface which is used by over 700,000 people in 100 countries....
Sundance Tipografia — Cahya Sofyan — Bali, Indonesia
“Herb Luballin is the biggest influence on my typefaces. He is responsible for the creative visual beauty of these publications. He designed a typeface, ITC Avant Garde, for the last of them; this font could be described as a reproduction of Art Deco, and is seen in logos created in the 1990s and 2000s.”...
Enable Foundation — The OLD School — Hong Kong
A public engagement design concept for enabling people of all ages to be inspired by what it means to get OLD and share the knowledge of “Ageing“ with each other. Enable Foundation team co-created into four sets of OLD Drills installation with London-based designer and artist Pascal Anson since March 2019, aimed at encouraging citizens to experience and participate in...
Briefcase Type Foundry — Prague, Czech Republic
“We have worked together on a typeface called Orion. We digitized it for the sake of searching for forgotten original Czech typefaces whose authors are not alive and which we would love to see in a contemporary context and use.”...
The Designers Foundry — Christchurch, New Zealand
The re-release of Morion in 2020 is 6 years after the initial sketches took place. The all new version brings not only 6 weights and matching italics to the family, but the entire glyphset has been revised, extended and reconsidered. Morion is a balancing act between text and display type. Morion is capable to be used as running text at...
hiiarchitects — Hsinchu Prefectural Hall Public Toilet — Taipei, Taiwan
Hsinchu Prefectural Hall was completed in 1927 and is a red tile building with highly expressive plasterwork. This government building was originally a two-story reinforced brick building with a sloping wooden truss roof. For this space that retains complete meaning of its era, they took color, arrangement, and materials from the original building language and simplified it with bent metal...
Junki Hong — Seoul, South Korea / New York, USA
“When I first designed the Elephant typeface, I started to do sketches so that a slightly tilted and cut-off gap was made. In particular, I sketched r, a and k, starting with c, but I felt that it was more like a wood-carving souvenir. As soon as I designed e based on the shape of c, I thought that it...
Ten Buttons Design — Post-Information Era — Guangzhou, China
With the advent of the post-information era, Chinese characters are facing a new innovation of visual expression. The identity design of this activity highlights the role of Chinese characters in a multilingual environment, emphasizes the characteristics of information superposition and programming in the post-information era....
TypeMates — Hamburg, Germany
“Pensum, one of my largest font families, started as a contrast exercise during my studies in The Hague at the KABK type media masterclass in 2009. First sketches were based on my brush writing. The exercise included a rough sketch of a possible no-contrast and high-contrast idea. I took all the time I needed to test a lot of details...
DARE Bikes — VSRu Aeroroad — Taipei, Taiwan
VSRu’s exclusive VETOX aero handlebars, disk brake cover, integrated cable routing, aerodynamic frame shape, and exquisite hand-painted finish combine to take you on a sleek and balanced flight with the wind....
Kobu Foundry — Brígida Lourenço Guerreiro — Algarve, Portugal
“I don’t think we can consider fonts to be good or bad. It depends on the purpose and intent of their usage. If I use a digital type font that has the same characteristics as a display font, it shouldn’t be used on text, so its application in that case would be incorrect. When drawing, I consider the optical adjustments...