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Jun 22, 2020
4 min

Design Matters at 15: Matthew Carter

To ring in PRINT’s new typeface, Role—designed by Matthew Carter and published by Morisawa—we’re taking a look back at Matthew Carter's Design Matters interview from 2018. Matthew Carter’s phone rang. It was the early 2000s, and on the other end of the line was a lawyer who was inquiring about a case she was working on. Her client was trying to claim property her late father had willed her—but his former business partner said the man had actually given it to him a couple deca

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Jun 9, 2020
2 min

Type Tuesday: Confitería and Dilemma

Yesterday afternoon, we sat down to write our weekly Type Tuesday post, about Buenos Aires type collective Sudtipos’ Confitería—and as we were doing it, they released their Dilemma typeface. Trying to figure out which to feature was a good dilemma to have. Ultimately, we decided to run with both. First up: Confitería, designed by Julieta Ulanovsky, in collaboration with Sol Matas. As Ulanovsky says, “Confitería is the Spanish word for a shop where sweets and chocolates are ma

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May 29, 2020
5 min

Pandemic Type! 8 of Our Favorite New Typefaces From the Past 2 Months

Sure, we’ve all been locked in and masked up … but that doesn’t mean we should sleep on these eight great new typefaces released in April and May. Every Tuesday we spotlight a new release. Stay tuned to PRINT for the latest. Degular Last year, James Edmondson of OH no Type Company asked his Twitter followers: What’s the best—and worst—thing about OH no? One answer to the latter haunted him for months: “It would be great to be able to use an Ohno font more than once.” With Edm

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Apr 8, 2020
1 min

Quarantype: 10 Free Fonts

If you’re going to be in quarantine, you may as well have a healthy supply of Quarantype on hand. When the team at Florence, Italy–based Zetafonts found themselves isolated at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, they channeled their anxiety into designing letters—and then decided to spread some good karma by releasing the sum toll of their efforts online for free. Developed in a mere three weeks (!), the team is now offering 10 free typefaces for download. “Although playful an

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Mar 11, 2020
11 min

10 Brilliant Female Creatives Creating Letters Today

Print has been acquired by an independent group of collaborators, and soon enough, we’ll be back in full force with an all-new look, all-new content and a fresh outlook for the future. In the meantime, we’re looking back at some of our most popular pieces, such as this one by Rebecca Bedrossian. Typography by Louise Fili, using the Montecatini face In 2000, a conference at the St. Bride Library in London featured only female speakers. It was organized by Dr. Shelley Gruendler

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Oct 16, 2017
1 min

Experiments in Hand-Lettering: A Creative Exploration

Hand-Lettering Experiments – Textures is the latest workshop from HOW Design University and Type Camp. As a fun, creative way to exercise creativity and typography, this workshop will inspire you in your latest type projects. Integrate textures and analog designs into your work today. This workshop is currently in session and is open until February 2nd. The instructor Diane Ovezea will provide students feedback on their submitted assignments to help students along their creat

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Aug 7, 2017
8 min

Typography Today: Are Tattoo Artists Typographers?

[CALL FOR ENTRIES: International Design Awards Deadline August 14, 2017] Editor’s note: The following article was originally featured in the Print Special Typography Summer 2017 issue. Grab your copy featuring Jessica Hische and 9 other brilliant women ruling type and lettering today, PLUS the top 25 American type masters. Tattoo Artist As Typographer? Words by: Alex Harrell After experiencing firsthand the eternal embarrassment of a poorly executed type-based tattoo, I start

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Feb 24, 2017
2 min

Jessica Hische: Letterer, Illustrator and “Procrastiworker”

Jessica Hische grew up in Pennsylvania, “raised by two non-creatives that decided it would be OK to let their little girl pursue a seemingly impractical career.” Seemingly being the key word there. After declaring graphic design as her major, Hische graduated in 2006 and joined HEADCASE Design in Philadelphia where she spent time designing books. Soon after, she began working for Louise Fili out of Brooklyn. And by 2009, she was on her own as a letterer, type designer, illust

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Jul 18, 2012
3 min

The Handwriting Is on the Wall

The walls in studios on two floors of the historic Cooper Union building are filled with hand-drawn studies of letterforms. “I love typography!” That’s the way Chavelli Tsui answers the question, “What brought you here? Tsui is a graphic designer born and raised in Hong Kong who recently received her BFA in communication design from Carnegie-Mellon University. With 28 cohorts from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Ireland, Israel, Lebanon, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Romania,

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Apr 17, 2012
14 min

"From the Inside, From the Heart": Type Designer Nadine Chahine

By Catherine Dixon Nadine Chahine is an award winning type designer specialized in Arabic fonts. Since 2005 she has worked for Linotype combining design with sales and marketing, though as the company’s Arabic type design programme has gathered momentum, so her role has shifted toward a greater emphasis in font development. Born in Lebanon she came to a career in type design initially via her graphic design degree studies at the American University of Beirut. This early awake

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Mar 2, 2011
17 min

An Interview With Matthew Carter

Photo courtesy the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Last fall the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation named Matthew Carter a Foundation Fellow. The so-called “genius grant” simply confirmed what those of us in the small design world already knew. That Carter is one of the most important type designers of the past half-century. He was born into the world of type design in 1937 as the son of Harry Carter, the type historian. And through his father he enter

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Design Matters at 15: Matthew Carter

Type Tuesday: Confitería and Dilemma

Pandemic Type! 8 of Our Favorite New Typefaces From the Past 2 Months

Quarantype: 10 Free Fonts

10 Brilliant Female Creatives Creating Letters Today

Experiments in Hand-Lettering: A Creative Exploration

Typography Today: Are Tattoo Artists Typographers?

Jessica Hische: Letterer, Illustrator and “Procrastiworker”

The Handwriting Is on the Wall

"From the Inside, From the Heart": Type Designer Nadine Chahine

An Interview With Matthew Carter

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