Type and Media is a master’s course in typeface design at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (KABK). This website presents the work of last year’s graduates.
“The type community has never seemed larger. Every year there are more type design schools, more type design companies, and more type designers — but 2019’s expansion appears to be exponential and extends beyond a familiar core.”
“There is no definitive form of the alphabet. The alphabet is a concept made concrete through countless written and designed letterforms; the alphabet is not defined by a single typeface but expressed through all of them. There’s sets of rules, largely unwritten rules, of how a typeface is put together, about relationships between letterforms and between styles. It’s a balance between a hard system and flexibility.”
Designed for Network Rail, the typeface is an update of Calvert's original Rail Alphabet typeface from the 1960s and was designed together with Henrik Kubel of A2-TYPE.
“Typeland is an independent type design studio based in London. We offer retail fonts exclusively through our own website. We also develop custom fonts, and specialise in multi-script design and production.”
