Dinamo — Basel, Switzerland

“For almost all of our designs we’re driven by an interest in how typefaces can be produced and used. Favorit Lining, for example, we came up with when a project needed an Italic but the deadline did not allow us to design one in time. Underlining felt like a valid alternative and this led us to realise that you can...

Parachute Typefoundry — Athens, Greece

“Our latest design, PF Marlet, started out by trying to visualize a serif typeface with simpler letterforms, something like a hybrid between a sans and a serif, blending simultaneously traces of fashion and nostalgia. Inspiration came from the roaring ’20s and ’30s, decades that embraced women’s independence both socially and politically. Taking intricate hints from the era, a contemporary dynamic...

Design & Make Organization (DMO) — The Brick-O — Taipei, Taiwan

This design uses red brick, furnace stone, and sodium silicate material after the removal of the surrounding wall by C-LAB to proposed a landscape installation. The wall material is transformed from barrier to an enclosing space component. The installation responds to the circular economy of this city — the ring structure itself provide exhibition and knowledge, showing the posture of...

Mat Voyce — Leeds, UK

“My Donut Worry piece was originally based on wanting to create a set of positivity stickers or badges to share on Instagram and GIPHY. This was before the worldwide lockdown came into force so they didn’t have their true impact until then. But I really wanted to make a few clever little badges to make people smile using puns and...

TypeTogether — Veronika Burian, José Scaglione — Prague, Czech Republic

“A typeface needs to be designed as a system with logical relationships between the elements that make it distinct from lettering. However, this does not mean that everything has to look the same. What can be interesting and exciting is consistency within inconsistencies, without becoming random ‘creativity’. When judging the quality of a font, it is important to look out...