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Name: CoFo Cinema1909 Designer: Liza Rasskazova Foundry: Contrast Foundry Release Date: Autumn 2020, for exclusive use by Moscow’s Khudozhestvenny Cinema until Autumn 2022 Back…

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If you’ve been worried about your carbon footprint, you can now rest easy—an extensive and growing list of companies, cities,…

Name: Avenir Next World Foundry: Monotype Designers: Adrian Frutiger, Akira Kobayashi, Yanek Iontef, Nadine Chahine, Toshi Omagari, Akaki Razmadze, Elena Papassissa…

Imagine, if you will, that you’re in a grocery aisle looking for flour. Your eyes scan bags upon bags for…

The past year has felt like the highest-budget sci-fi movie ever made: rioting mobs swarmed the US Capitol, a deadly…

Briar Levit is an Assistant Professor at Portland State University and graduate of Central St. Martins College of Art &…

Name: Gikit Designer: Benoît Bodhuin Foundry: BB Bureau Release Date:  December 2020 Back Story: Benoît Bodhuin, founder of BB Bureau, started…

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