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Sincerity/Irony Heldane Specimen Book
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Blog
TDC Member of The Month
An interview between Elizabeth Carey Smith and Kris Sowersby for the TDC Member of The Month series.
Signifier design information
Signifier is a Brutalist response to 17th century typefaces. Acknowledging the processes and tools of digital form-making, Signifier’s digital immateriality draws on a deeply material past.
Heldane review
If van den Keere’s collection of types represents a singular idea of what an alphabet would look like, then Heldane is the purest and most thorough expression of that idea I’ve seen.
Arts Laureate interview
An interview between Josephine Granese & Kris Sowersby for the 2019 Arts Laureate.
Söhne design information
Söhne is the memory of Akzidenz-Grotesk framed through the reality of Helvetica. It captures the analogue materiality of “Standard Medium” used in Unimark’s wayfinding system for the NYC Subway.
New details about the origins of Akzidenz-Grotesk
Nobody knows who designed Akzidenz-Grotesk. For about 20 years it was attributed to Theinhardt, but this has recently been proven untrue.