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/

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/

MATD 2011 - online

http://www.typefacedesign.org/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.

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.

Michael Twyman - photographic update

Piano sheet music covers.










Bilingual books.







Puffin books - Penguin children's books.

Ephemera

Centre for Ephemera Studies