Friday, December 30, 2011

The Granshan Exhibition November 2011 in Munich, Germany, with typeface Foxhill.

Foxhill has won the third price in the 'Greek Text Typefaces' category of Granshan 2011: the 4th International Type Design Competition for non-Latin typefaces.

The exhibition in Munich is held together with the TDC Show 2011.

Foxhill is presented on blue banner, far right.

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Foxhill used in O.K. Periodicals magazine!

Foxhill is used in the magazine O.K. Periodicals 7 Thriller issue, made and designed by graphic design studio O.K. Parking.

O.K. Periodicals the magazine is:
...an inspirational magazine (that looks like a book)
…independently published twice a year
…a platform for established and upcoming creative talent
…pleasantly disruptive & always curious


Purchase your O.K. Periodicals here!


Monday, December 5, 2011

Photoshoot at Royal College of Music, London

Last week I photographed cellist Willemijn Knödler and pianist Bernadette Bartos at the Royal College of Music, London. The photos will be used as promotion for a concert in the Netherlands.







Saturday, November 12, 2011

Critical Tensions

Thursday & Friday 10-11 November it was the tenth annual St. Bride Library conference!

Tension is frequently described as a positive in design, with designers balancing opposing constraints and visual ideas in often ‘perfect tension’. Design work balances a whole series of tensions: analogue–digital; male–female; Twitter–Facebook; art–design; East–West; old–young; interns–employees; global–local; micro–macro; educated–‘feral’; in-house–independent; degree course–short course/apprenticeship; designer–client.

In these uncertain times of economic and educational cutbacks, what of the old adage that from adversity comes creativity? In the aftermath of WWII, the exhibition ‘Britain can make it’ celebrated the potential of design as a tool for national recovery. The political struggles of the 1960s fuelled the portfolios of a generation of our most celebrated graphic designers. So where are seeds of creativity emerging from current struggles? What are the key points of tension today and what possibilities for designerly making and thinking are opening up as a result? Is tension vital to the design process itself?

- Speakers included Timo Arnall, Phil Baines, Jonathan Barnbrook, Zoë Bather, Tom Farrand, Amelia Gregory, Matt Jones, Alan Kitching, Gerry Leonidas, Vaughan Oliver, Paul Rennie, Lucienne Roberts, Steve Watson, Marina Willer, Rebecca Wright and Derek Yates.

- Moderators were Phil Baines and Emily King.

- Demonstrators were Paul Antonio (calligraphy), Douglas Bevans (bookbinding), Mark Frith (stonecutting), Helen Ingham and Richard Lawrence (typesetting, linocutting, printing).

During critical tensions I made my first stone-cutting (an 'e'), thanks to the guidance of Mark Frith!


Monday, October 31, 2011

Third prize for Foxhill!

Glad to announce that Foxhill has won the Third Price in the 'Greek text typefaces category' of the International Type design competition Granshan 2011!
On the 26 of October 2011 at the press conference in the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia were announced the results and prize winners of the 'Granshan 2011' competition.

All awarded works will be displayed at the exhibitions in Yerevan and Munich in November and be included in the catalogue 'Granshan 2011', which will be issued by the end of this year.

The org. committee informs that the works submitted to 'Granshan 2011' competition were displayed at the exhibition in the Bibliotheca Alexandria (Egypt) on the 27-29 of September without announcing the winners.

Granshan 2011 website: http://www.granshan.org/

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Reflection on Practice online now

Happy to let you know that from last week the Reflection on Practice essay's of the MATD 2011 are online!

Download it here:
http://www.typefacedesign.org/2011/



Saturday, August 6, 2011

Type Masters exhibition in the Mota Italic Gallery, Berlin.

Sneak peek of 24 new typefaces, including my typeface Foxhill, from the 2011 graduating master classes at the University of Reading (UK) and the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (NL).

Running July 26 – August 27, 2011.
Opening Party July 28, 18:00

Big thanks to Rob Keller & Sonja Keller!

Mota Italic Gallery
Schliemannstrasse 34, Berlin.

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Foxhill, a result of the MA Typeface Design, 2011

Foxhill is a typeface especially designed to work in small sizes such as bilingual religious texts.

The Latin and Greek Foxhill are designed to work harmonious together. It includes polytonic Greek, which is still used in historical texts, literary texts and poetry.
It is available in three weights, for small sizes up to 8pt - regular, bold and italic. The text weights regular, bold and italic are specially designed for texts set in 9 points and above.
The main characteristics of Foxhill are its short ascenders and descenders; this saves space since the leading can be reduced and more lines will fit the page, perfect for usage in religious texts. The large x-height in conjunction with round and open counters ensures legibility and readability in small sizes.

Besides this a funky blackletter inspired-stylistic set is designed for headings and such.
Foxhill comes with several opentype features, as ligatures, swashes, ornaments and titling caps.

Made possible with a grant of the Fonds BKVB; Dutch Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture.













Saturday, March 12, 2011

Michael Twyman - photographic update

Piano sheet music covers.










Bilingual books.







Puffin books - Penguin children's books.