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Beautiful work from EIGA, a multidisciplinary design studio based in Hamburg, Germany.

 

Fortsätt läsa EIGA Design

A23D is a 3D-printed letterpress font commissioned by Richard Ardagh of New North Press. The font is a protoype, connecting the newest and the oldest forms of print technology, and looking to the future of letterpress in the 21st century. The font was designed by renowned type designers Scott Williams and Henrik Kubel, of A2-Type, and fabricated by model making specialists Chalk Studios.

New North Press specialises in traditional letterpress printing, a craft long in decline with the rise of modern print technologies. With wood and metal fonts no longer in large-scale production, it’s a technique constrained by antique tools. 3D-printing has been heralded as ‘the second industrial revolution’ and presents an opportunity to see what the pinpoint accuracy of additive manufacture can achieve.

Adrian Harrison’s short film (above) documents how a new font was born, charting its progress from preliminary sketches to first inking and printing at New North Press.

 

Fortsätt läsa A23D: 3D-Printed Letterpress Font | A2-type | New North Press | Chalk Studios

Gå till Type token »The iconic pink broadsheet has recently launched its new redesign combining a new grid and typographic palette to great effect.

The showpiece being the new typeface ‘Financier’ that was created by Kris Sowersby of Klim Type Foundry.

Fortsätt läsa Financial Times – Financier typeface

FontStruct is a wonderful free tool for creating usable, modular typefaces. Sometimes however you may find yourself reaching its limits. If you want control over kerning, vertical metrics, OpenType features or cubic béziers you need to reach for an additional tool. Until now there was just one way to do this: You download your FontStruction as a TrueType font and then edit that font in the desktop font editor of your choice.

This week we’re introducing a great new option for Mac users in partnership with the guys from Glyphs.app.

Fortsätt läsa FontStruct New Feature: Export to Glyphs

FontStruct continues to be used to introduce students to the process of typographic creation in schools, colleges and universities all over the world.

This summer, the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin is hosting the exhibition ‘ON-TYPE: Texts on Typography’. For the supporting programme, Bernard Stein and Florian Hardwig organized a special event about teaching type design. They invited three type designers to present their respective approach to teaching. On July 24th, Martina Flor, Martin Wenzel and Dan Reynolds talked about their preferred methods and tools.

Fortsätt läsa FontStructions from HBK Braunschweig at the Bauhaus