Water, the fundamental understanding of science, is used as the concept in this project. Three phases of water are represented by geometric composition with 3 different materials. Capturing spatial characteristics from artists’ sense of environment — 3 places, as an important part of performing, are chosen in responding to the 3 phases of water....
Paul Bokslag — Kilkenny, Ireland
“The Pattern Exchange was commissioned by Workhouse Union as the display typeface for a group exhibition of the same name. They guest-curated the show for Temple Bar Gallery in Dublin, Ireland in 2015. This modular typeface developed from the idea that rather than being a mere decoration, the pattern could form the actual structure of the glyphs. The font can...
Pangram Pangram Foundry — Mat Desjardins — Montreal, Canada
“On a micro level, good type design comes from the details. How the curves are smoothly made and how they come together. The balance between shapes and negative space. The contrast, the flow, the rhythm of the letters coming together. On a macro level, what the font transmits. Its style, readability, versatility. How words form sentences and paragraphs. There is...
Po Hung Design Lab — Hong Kong Story — Hong Kong
Through research and interviews with dying occupations and professions in Hong Kong. Their stories are presented in the drawing style of the Ming and Qing dynasties, presented in a hand-made book. It is printed in vintage risograph printing and hand-stitched....
Dan Barkle — London, UK
“Most of my inspiration comes from dystopian/post-apocalyptic sources that I like looking further into: the TV series Mr Robot and the game design of Death Stranding have both been recently motivational when coming up with new layouts and edits for type pieces I design.”...
Ordinary Projects — Hast Knife Series — New York City, USA
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...