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!

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.

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!

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.