Lumin typeface family

Lumin font

Lumin is an extensive type family designed by our longtime collaborator Nikola Djurek and intended especially for editorial use. The Lumin family includes slab-serif, sans serif, condensed and display typefaces, all of which play with the idea of contradiction. The contrast between horizontal and vertical (more)

14 May 2013 / 0 comments
From Typotheque by Peter Bilak in Design, Illustration

Type & Carpets

Carpet

The best work is often the most personal work. Work done not to fulfil somebody’s design brief, but for your own pleasure in your spare time. Recently we were looking for a carpet for our new house. After shopping online and offline for weeks, we (more)

15 April 2013 / 0 comments
From Typotheque by Peter Bilak in Design, Illustration

Supernova, a family of scripts

Supernova a new typeface by Typotheque

Supernova is a new family that combines the spontaneity of a script typeface with the versatility of multiple weights and cuts. The development of script typefaces has largely been limited to variations in shape and proportion (and with the advent of OpenType technology, the addition of alternate letterforms). (more)

25 February 2013 / 0 comments
From Typotheque by Peter Bilak in Design

Works That Work, a new design magazine

Works That Work a new design magazine

In October 2012, after a year of preparation, we launched a crowdfunding campaign for a new design magazine, Works That Work. We were asking our potential readers whether there was room on the market for a periodical aimed not only at designers in particular, but at (more)

20 February 2013 / 1 comment
From Typotheque by Peter Bilak in Design

Print, Online and App

360 magazine

360 is a new Dutch magazine that gathers a wide selection of articles from over 800 reputable foreign periodicals and translates them into Dutch. Every two weeks its readers get a fresh compilation of material not only from such well-known newspapers as The New York Times, Le (more)

5 February 2013 / 0 comments
From Typotheque by Peter Bilak in Design

New fonts: Irma Text Narrow

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Irma Text Narrow is a space saving addition to Irma type system. While the original Irma Text has generous proportions, the Narrow version is 20% more condensed, yet still preserving the Irma’s DNA. Irma Text is a fluid Sans-serif typeface which balances two contradictory construction principles. (more)

30 November 2012 / 0 comments
From Typotheque by Peter Bilak in Design

Works That Work, a magazine of unexpected creativity

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For the past eight months we have worked on a concept of a new magazine. We are pleased to announce it now. Works That Work is conceived as a magazine that looks beyond mere portfolios, concerning itself with the conditions and contexts of design in a (more)

23 November 2012 / 0 comments
From Typotheque by Peter Bilak in Design

Karloff, convergence of beauty and ugliness

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Karloff explores the idea of irreconcilable differences, how two extremes could be combined into a coherent whole. At the start we looked at the high-contrast Didone typefaces which are considered by many as some of the most beautiful in existence, and the eccentric ‘Italian’, reversed-contrast typeface (more)

15 November 2012 / 0 comments
From Typotheque by Peter Bilak in Design

Irma Screen, new hinted fonts

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We are pleased to introduce Irma Screen. Irma Screen is designed to work equally well on paper and the computer screen. It is available in TrueType format only and has been specially optimised for exceptional readability on laptops, desktops, mobile devices and other digital displays. This (more)

23 October 2012 / 0 comments
From Typotheque by Peter Bilak in Design

Vienna Airport adopts Fedra Sans

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In June 2012 Vienna International Airport opened a new terminal which more than doubled the size of the airport. The new terminal was designed by architectural venture Itten-Brechbühl/Baumschlager-Eberle, with signage by Intégral Ruedi Baur. Typotheque developed a custom version of Fedra Sans for the Airport. Ruedi Baur and (more)

4 October 2012 / 0 comments
From Typotheque by Peter Bilak in Design
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