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Original Proforma brochure for Purup Electronics
Back in 1988, the Danish company Purup Electronics was one of the world’s leading manufacturers of laser based typesetting system. PE Proforma was announced as the first typeface design exclusively for forms.
Poem on the wall
“Stichting Archipelpoëzie” – Foundation to encourage the use of poems on architecture in The Hague) used Productus Book and Medium in their 9th project, located in the “Nieuwe Schoolstraat” in The Hague. For each poem a different type…
Savanna Script
A versatile family of condensed formal scripts. Richard Lipton continually transforms the elegance of pen-on-paper into beautiful, functional fonts.
Canto
Inspired by Edward M. Catich’s seminal thesis on the origins of the Roman inscriptional style, such as that found on Trajan’s column…
Creative Characters interview
He is one of those rather modest designers who let their work speak for itself.
What’s on the Agenda?
Some history on Greg Thompson’s popular Agenda family and a closer look at some of its distinctive details.
Roster
Matthew Carter’s Roster takes the visual tension of square corners in round shapes and makes this square-circle tension its underlying structure.
Marcia: text with the spirit of lettering
Victoria Rushton’s stylish, exuberant, contradictory typeface “is based on nothing, nothing at all,” she says.
The Gerrit Noordzij cube
The animated cube it the ultimate result of Gerrit’s theory building up over the years. Originally starting as two squares, he combined the separate principles of contrast later by interpolating between them.
Entre párrafos: fundamentos de tipografía
Campgràfic releases the Spanish edition of Inside Paragraphs.
Miller Text expansion
Matthew Carter’s Miller is a seminal reinvigoration of the 19th-century Scotch Roman, serving forthright, authoritative body copy and headlines since 1997. All Text and Display weights include small caps, italics, and italic small caps
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Cyrus Highsmith wins the Gerrit Noordzij Prize
Occupant LLC is very proud to announce that Cyrus Highsmith has been awarded the Gerrit Noordzij prize. The prize is given by the Royal Academy of Art, Museum Meermanno, and the Dr PA Tiele Foundation, all based in the Netherlands.