Another fabulous thesis on modular type comes from Mia Rockel. 'No hidden Message' holds some great examples written in Processing and explains very well why file formats like Postscript limit the expression of typedesign by reducing letterforms to an outline shape. A really interesting read...

Get a little peek at the opening preparations for our showroom.....

Designer Mary Huang explores future stuff between code and form on a really creative level: Have a look on her amazing project TYPEFACE - an approach on emotionally generated typefaces via faceexpressions. "The design of typefaces is founded upon principles from the days of metal type, when...

Does real typographic craftsmanship today involve learning a programming language? When you look at the portfolio of Joshua Koomen it seems obvious. All his work shows the amazing potential that lies in generative & modular type. Wether it is a lasercutted photoframe for a festival...

We just love these two crazy guys from Hamburg…adorable alternative to waterworks. Thank you soooo much for this surprising may-welcome! we just love it! ...

Typotheque from The Hague, Netherlands push the font theme into beautiful choreographed haptical aesthetics. Click the picture and see it yourself. Ingo and me were not half as flexible as these dancers. But you know we did this back in the days, when we had no...

This is the bicycle counterpart to our previous posting of the Toyota iQ car font. In this project Yamaguchi Takahiro from Tokyo used his two wheels and a GPS device to record his traces through the Shibuya district to develop a typeface. I guess this...

The graduation project from swiss born Dafi Kühne is called 'Woodtype Now!'. He combined classic woodtype printing with lasercut technology to discover new design possibilities. His extensive research analyses new printing materials engraved by a laser. "Through the process of exploring the possibilities in regards to...

A souvenir from the opening of Erik Spiekermann’s exhibition "the face of type". The master himself gave us an autograph. The exhibition is running from 23.3. - 6.6.2011 at the Bauhaus Archiv in Berlin....

This project fits so well in our definition of ‘type meets new tech’ that we don’t mind if it is almost 2 years old. Toyota hired typeheads Pierre & Damien, a racecar driver named Stef van Campenhoudt and openFrameworks mastermind Zach Liebermann to develop a...