Our latest Talking Type podcasts feature interviews with book designer Irma Boom and graphic and type designer Ramiro Espinoza during the ATypI 2013 conference.
Providing an insight into her latest projects, Irma also gives her thoughts on incorporating typography into book designs, whilst Ramiro tells us about his type foundry, Re-Type.
You can listen to both of these and more via our Soundcloud and iTunes pages.
This early morning (local Belgian time) the news finally came in – Typographica announced it published their annual Our Favorite Typefaces. A fine gathering of type users and type creators each selected a typeface released in the past year and reviewed it. Free up half a day and take the time to read through it all, because it is very much worth your time.
Fortsätt läsa Discover Typographica’s “Our Favorite Typefaces of 2013”
This year marks another step in the typographic diversification we observed in our previous annual. The global spread of independent font makers and the variety of new ideas in type design continues unabated.
You don’t see him much on Twitter. You won’t find him on the popular design conference circuit (though you may spot him at ATypI). In fact, unless you’re a bit of a type nerd, you may not have even heard of him. No matter. He’s doing just fine. Quietly, without fanfare or braggadocio, from a hilltop studio in a small town near Zagreb, Nikola Djurek has been designing some of the most original typefaces to emerge in recent years.
Named for one of the most innovative graphic and information designers of the 20th century, Ladislav embraces the legacy of its namesake without being derivative. By employing a systematic — but not dogmatic — approach, Tomáš Brousil creates a tribute to Ladislav Sutnar that captures Sutnar’s ethos along with the idiosyncratic character of his design work.