Thanks to BuroDestuct for this video by two designers, Michael Flückiger and Nicolas Kunz. They are probably better explaining it than me:
“For our bachelor thesis, we engaged ourselfs with dynamic typography, especially with dynamic typefaces. Since not much work has been done in this field, we devised a system in which a typeface would not be defined static fonty styles anymore but would be able to change it‘s shape and appearance at any moment reacting to a broad spectrum of inputs.”
Béla Frank is a Graphic Designer from Hungary, he had this to say about himself:
“3 years ago I started to work as a graphic designer in a small studio and study graphic design at the same time. From the first time typography was my favorite subject. Some of my exam works were exhibited at the Hungarian Museum of Fine Arts this year – definitely biggest moment till now :) This year I leaved the school and started experimenting with typeface design – and become an addict at once. Now typographic/calligraphic self-training consume all of my spare time.”
The first thing I noticed from Béla’s portfolio is his enthusiasm for posters and fonts, his website is definitely worth a look and it’s a nice example of Indexhibit. But where I found the cream of the crop is on his Flickr page, Béla has collected a very large amount of photographs of found type and development work of his own. His finished type work is of a very high standard butBéla’spen work is on another level, hours of practice have definitely been spent drawing letterforms.
You will probably recognise this great ‘gk’ poster from doing the blog rounds in the summer. Thanks to Craig Matchett I have now found the complete typeface created by Hungarian designer Aron Jancso.
Aron is a self-proclaimed type addict, primarily working with modernist and calligraphy styles. The sample-poster that you may have seen doing the blog rounds belongs to the font family Ogaki, available from Gestalten.
What I find nice is the consistency of simple, clean designs. Focusing your eye on the details of the letter-forms.
While scouring the depths of Twitter for some typography people I came across http://vllg.com
Village is a union of ten fresh type foundries that have decided to band together to help each other survive in the fierce world of font distribution.
We are based in New York City, but are a global group, with members from Canada, China, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States.
What I find especially pleasing is the fact they have restrained themselves from growing any bigger than what they wanted, by keeping their members small Village have guaranteed the quality of work will be maintained. Compared to other foundry behemoths such as MyFonts, Village stands strong as something unique and inspiring.
Ironically if many fonts that get watered down by being available on MyFont or Dafont where to be available on a site such as Village, maybe they would be have a better reputation in the design community.
Immediately I noticed two of my favorite new typefaces, Fakir and Bello from Underware.
I’m a big fan of the Cargo Collective cms so when I found the p.s.type website I was very impressed. I think what gave it more importance is the fact that the founder, Mark Caneso, is not using Cargo for his personal design studio website, ppwrk studio. While we are on the topic of the website, Mark has integrated a very nice drop-down ecommerce system for every font that is for sale.
What I really like about p.s.type is the extremely high quality of all the typefaces, it is definitely all killer and no filler. The images Mark has created leave you wanting more, especially the compare diagrams. He has strayed away from the typical type sample poster.
The foundries newest release is Ratio: ”Ratio is a new, contemporary typeface designed by Mark Caneso and released by psType. Ratio exudes the best of both humanist and geometric sans serifs. Ratio is available in 6 weights ranging from Thin to Heavy all with matching italics.” To celebrate the release of Ratio, Mark is offering a special ’12 fonts 12 months 12 bucks’ deal, bargain! You can check out more of Ratio in the release PDF or on the website.
