Typography Weekly #92

“A few months ago our landlord informed us that they wanted Letterform Archive out of the building. We urgently need a new home. Luckily, we found the one we always imagined. Now you can make it a reality.”

A talk given by Richard Ardagh from the Type Archive London at the conference of the Association of European Printing Museums.

“The project started as assignments at the Graphic Design Department of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague: to create a revival from printed types from a freely chosen historical source. However, it soon became a personal obsession for both of us, which turned into a deep professional interest, and continued beyond the end of the school year. Because we found both the study and the collaboration instructive, we decided to share our discursive story in five chapters.”

“Modern Cyrillic 2019 is an international type design competition. The aim is to get the objective evidence of the current state of Cyrillic type design and find the best examples of its development.”

“Morisawa Type Design Competition 2019 was held to seek the most updated, unique, and challenging typefaces. We received 813 entry works from 53 countries (258 works for Japanese category, 555 works for Latin category). After the two days of intense evaluation, Gold prize, Silver prize, Bronze prize (one work each), and Honorable Mention (three works) were selected as Morisawa Award for both Kanji and Latin category.”

“It is with great sadness that our team has been informed that Patricia Saunders, former Monotype employee and designer of iconic typefaces such as Arial, Corsiva and Columbus, passed away last Tuesday 25 June 2019.”

“We are looking for the best Typeface Designs in nine script groups. Entries are possible in three categories to satisfy the wide range of multilingual typeface projects. To find the most excellent Non-Latin typefaces in the world, more than 60 international, well-known script experts will judge the entries in a three-level-process. This year the final jury meeting, the announcement of the winners and the celebration of the GRANSHAN GRAND PRIZE will take place during ATypI in Tokyo in September”

“How do we make sure that everyone can read the content of our website? And by everyone, I mean absolutely everyone. This includes people with impaired vision, reading disorders, colour blindness or anything that can often prevent them from reading comfortably.”