Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
“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...
Taiwan Power Company — D/S ONE is created by transforming the acronym of “Distribution Substation” to the concepts of “Design” and “Sustainability”. During the construction, public participation was also applied in creating a cross-field platform that incorporates education, technology, art and the humanities....
What constitutes a good typeface design? “A major consideration for me is consistency. A well-designed typeface will have consistent design characteristics throughout the entire character set, which includes numerals, punctuation, and some symbols. This includes cap and x-heights, the overhangs of curved characters such as the o, n, and e, character width, stroke width, size of the ascenders and descenders,...
The interior avoids unneeded ornaments; whereas, exterior was renovated by cement and cladded with perforated metals, building up translucent contrast between solid and see-through material. The perforated facade brings more daylighting and creates blurry yet inviting shadow from outer surrounding, eliminating visual barricades among vertical stores. This old house becomes a new, flexible, light-weight, carrier to cater for unknown activities...
“My initial idea was to design an extremely simple font that nonetheless feels exceptional. The beginning was easy, I just enjoyed drawing each letter one by one how I wanted. But then the hardest part came: testing, fixing, countless kerning adjustments, re-drawing glyphs over and over … It’s been three years now. What kept me going is the feeling that...
“In all of my typefaces, inspiration can come from anywhere. It can be something related, you can be inspired by another typeface, make something similar, better, or go into the totally opposite direction, or inspiration can come from something that doesn’t have anything to do with typography — a line on a building, a curve on a car; many times,...
“I recently re-made an old font of mine called Cindie Mono — the update is called Cindie 2. The original idea for the font came from the monospaced letters used on medical opticians’ charts. I found the simplicity of the letters and the scientific approach to legibility interesting. The update of Cindie 2 has a hand-drawn script face also. This...
“A new Velvetyne font should be distinct from all other Velvetyne fonts but also from any already-published retail or open-source fonts. It should have a backbone made of a strong concept. It should not be too easy to use, allowing people to question what they are doing. Even if it should not look like any of our previous releases, it...
“While working on Arpona, the Roman-Germanic Museum in Cologne was a valuable source of inspiration because there are countless ancient stones with Roman inscriptions. Stone is not easy to work with, and the hammer and chisel are not filigree tools. You have to use force to apply it and mistakes cannot be corrected. The final result is a typeface with...
“Clockmaker’s aesthetic references encompass Victorian, Art Nouveau and Art Deco advertising and typography, with specific influence from John F. Cummings’ all-caps — and never digitized — type design Elandkay. Creating a diverse and playful set of uppercase ligatures was an almost endlessly enjoyable task; they are one of Clockmaker’s most charming features. It is an impeccable choice for designs requiring...
“The motivation to design GT America stemmed from an urge to bridge the gap between two genres of typefaces: European Grotesque and American Gothic. The typeface takes the straightforward systematic approach from the first one and the strong expression of the second one. To commemorate the release of the typeface, we’ve published the website www.gt-america.com that likewise fuses Swiss modernism...
A’ Design Award & Competition is the world’s leading international annual juried competition for design. The A’ Design Accolades are organized in a wide range of creative fields to highlight the very best designers from all countries in all disciplines. Organized under various categories based on Locarno classification of economic sectors and industries — the A’ Architecture, Building and Structure...
