Brasílica

The pleasure of reviewing a typeface is inversely proportional to the ease with which it reveals the challenges faced by its designer, and what may be unique about it. In other words, just as the design of a good typeface requires effort in details of marginal detection, so a rewarding review demands insights beyond what’s immed­iately facing you. Brasílica is exactly that kind of typeface: relatively easy to overlook in an array of new releases, but revealing the more one lingers.

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Mainstudio

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Mainstudio

Mainstudio is a Dutch design studio founded by Edwin van Gelder. The studio creates identity systems, books, and interactive digital media. They begin each project with an editorial typographic approach that eventually progresses to fuse content and graphic forms. By applying innovative printing techniques to their designs, the studio has won numerous international awards, including ‘Best Book Design from all over the world’ in 2013 from Frankfurt’s Stiftung Buchkunst and the Leipzig Book Fair.

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