At 11-D Productions (or: JW's Art), we find mostly graffiti annd grunge typefaces. īased in Stockholm, Johan Waldenström was born in Sweden in 1984. In 2016, Matt published the angular Preissig-style Millwright and explains that it is inspired by spunky DIY attitude and Industrial era hardware-an exercise in rendering glyphs with a rudimentary, hand-cut flavour. Although a faux Russian font, Sonovovitch has language support for the true Cyrillic alphabet. In 2014, Heximer created Sonovovitch, a unicase display typeface inspired by the Russian Constructivist movement and Soviet Cold War era propaganda. In 2007, Matt published the free icon typeface Adanac that contains 62 Canadiana symbols. The fonts at 10four design include Adanac (free, clean sans), Bitchin' Camaro (scratchy writing font), Devicq (based on the handwriting of actress Paula Devicq), Downsize, El Diablo (gothic), Lonely Cowboy, Lonely Cowpoke (2010), Mia Pets (dingbats), Swashbuckler, Techno Organic. He also created Halqemeylem Serif (1997) for the Stolo Nation, based on Majoor's Scala. Matt has held senior design and freelance positions in several Vancouver design firms.ĭesigner of ElDiabloRegular, TechnoOrganic (1996), Swashbuckler-Script (1996), Bitchin Camero (1996) at Garagefonts. Matt Heximer and Sue both graduated from The Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 1994. Together with his friends Drury Brennan, Marleen Krallman and Petra Rüth he launched the Breaking Good workshops which are focussed on both historical and contemporary aspects of broken scripts.TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated onġ0four design group was founded in 2002 by Sue Lepard and Matt Heximer in Vancouver. Recently he rediscovered his interest in yet another ‘German’ style of scripts: Fraktur. The first task of this new committee was to revise DIN 1450, the German norm dealing with legibility of typefaces and typography. Working on new weights and styles to extend his typeface family FF DIN has become one of his major occupations, in 2010 the release of the long awaited FF DIN Round turned FF DIN into a so called super-family and in 2015 FF DIN Thin and Extra Light were released.Īlbert-Jan Pool is a member of ATypI (1985), AGD (2001), TDC (2001), Forum Typografie (2005) and is the chairman of the German standards committee on typefaces at the DIN Institute in Berlin. Albert-Jan Pool considers this acquisition as a milestone in the process of the recognition of typeface design as a form of applied art next to architecture and industrial design. FF DIN was amongst the first set of 23 typefaces. In 2011 the New York Museum of Modern Art decided to extend its collection of applied arts by digital typefaces. By 2008 he decided to support his findings scientifically and started working on his doctoral thesis on the history of geometric sans serif typefaces in Germany. In 2004 he started researching on the history of the typefaces according to DIN 1451 and has become a well known author and speaker on this subject. From 1999 to 2005 he ran the design agency FarbTon Konzept + Design. He teaches typeface design at the Muthesius Academy in Kiel. Together with type-consultant Stefan Rögener he wrote the both useful and provocative book ‘Branding with Type’ in 1995. Since 1994 he runs his studio Dutch Design and designs typefaces such as FF OCR-F and FF DIN as well as corporate typefaces for well known brands like C&A, JET and HEM. After studying at the KABK in The Hague with Gerrit Noordzij, he left for Hamburg in 1987 and worked with Scangraphic and URW. Albert-Jan Pool was born in Amsterdam on the 9th of July 1960.
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