Name: Söhne Designer: Kris Sowersby Foundry: Klim Release Date: December 2019 Backstory: Söhne dates back to the first time Kris…
In a creative landscape awash with maximalism, “acid graphics,” and “ugly design”—all of which I personally love—sometimes you need something…
The cheerful pop-culture visuals of arcade games form a shared lingua franca for players worldwide, meant to guide them through…
Name: Zooba Designer: Gabriela Namie and Junki Hong from &Walsh, with Cairo-based calligrapher Mohamed Mohamed Foundry: Not a foundry as…
Unless you’ve been living in a Brutalist cave, you’re probably very much aware that 2019 is the centenary of the…
Wedged between white paper folders at MIT’s Art, Culture, and Technology (ACT) archive, there’s a curiously emphatic black binder coated…
In the 1920s and ’30s, the New Typography movement spearheaded by the likes of Jan Tschichold, Karel Teige, Herbert Bayer,…
Bauhaus design’s impact on today’s graphics is hard to overestimate. Associated with primary colors, thick straight lines slashing across white space,…
Name: Giga Medium Designer: Cihan Tamti Release Date: Late summer 2019 Back Story: It’s bonkers to think that this young…
Name: Zoom Pro Designer: Florian Paizs Foundry: The Designers Foundry Release Date: October 2019 Back Story: It’s pretty much universally acknowledged that type design…
There’s a new trend report out from Monotype, the mother of all type foundries (they own Helvetica, for starters), that…
Early in his episode of Abstract, the Netflix series about design, Jonathan Hoefler describes the act of type design as…
