Peter Buchanan-Smith, Best Made Co.
by Anna Malsberger
Peter Buchanan-Smith moves in a rarefied world, making elegant lookbooks for Isaac Mizrahi and pared-down packaging for Philip Glass....
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Ventura
by Anna Malsberger
Ventura, a "bright-eyed and balletic" TDC 2008 winner designed by Dino dos Santo, has been sculpted by a couple of cultures and centuries....
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Lakeside
by Anna Malsberger
Looming over the baseline like long shadows on a rainy night, the characters in Mark Simonson's Lakeside are an homage to brush-script titles of 1940s film noir....
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Stilla
by Anna Malsberger
Stephen Coles and Anna Malsberger review Stilla, a headline typeface defined by thick verticals and high contrast....
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Stilla
by Anna Malsberger
Stilla is a headline typeface for anyone waiting for Poster Bodoni to shrug off its restrained precision and get a little funky: It's defined by thick verticals, high contrast, and a self-assured boldness....
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P22 Underground Pro
by Anna Malsberger
In September 2007, P22 announced it had developed P22 Underground Pro, an expanded version of Underground. The resulting font grows functionally and globally, all while still directing...
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Black Slabbath
by Anna Malsberger
Ushered into the ring as “The Heaviest Typeface in the World,” Stefán Kjartansson’s Black Slabbath has earned its title. Some may use more ink, but none do so as functionally....
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FE-Schrift
by Anna Malsberger
German license plates get a new typeface: FE-Schrift. Designed by Karlgeorg Hoefer in the late 1970s, it's an assemblage of entirely unique characters with disparate design aesthetics: No typographic road rules apply....
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Rodchenko
by Anna Malsberger
The minimal urgency and objective rigor of form are captured in Paratype's Rodchenko, designed by Tagir Safayev and named for the seminal Russian artist and co-founder of constructivism....
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Radio
by Anna Malsberger
Video may have killed the radio star, but the script typefaces that typify radio's Golden Age are very much alive—resurrected by the digital pen of nostalgic type designers...
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Frieze
by Anna Malsberger
Hang your holiday lights on a typographic armature. Frieze, by Julian Morey, isn't the first dotted grid font, but its pointillism wanders away from a strict matrix...
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Los Niches
by Anna Malsberger
Like any effective ensemble, Los Niches knows when to wait in the wings and when to take the stage. Most of its modern monoline letterforms are stylized yet understated: sleek and elegant, but ultimately serving...
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