An attempt to make CPFW’s visual identity visually original. By going away from the modern logotype in a black san serif.
KTF Metro
The new typeface KTF Metro by Kyiv Type Foundry portray Ukraine’s Soviet Heritage and current war.
Yevgen Anfalov and Oles Gergun, the founders of Kyiv Type Foundry, held a workshop to pay tribute to the importance of the Kyiv Metro, resulting in the creation of the exciting new family release called KTF Metro inspired by it. The Kyiv Type Foundry specializes in crafting Cyrillic (and Latin) fonts, drawing inspiration from typography originating from Ukraine’s Soviet era.
Echoing WWII events, in 2022 Kyiv Metro became the bomb shelter for thousands of its inhabitants. This sad fact is another big milestone in its rich history, which continues to be written. Built six decades ago, it carries 1.32 million passengers a day (2016) and is one of the most beautiful manmade creations in Ukraine. As part of station architecture, the letters of the Kyiv Metro tell us a lot about its history. It’s a book. You can read it in many directions. Exiting on each station, you’ll notice different letterings. “Look at them, analyze and make fonts on their basis”, the workshop leaders told to their students in the summer 2023 workshop called “Kyiv Metro Fonts.” So they worked on it for a week and the editors of Kyiv Type Foundry took and carefully finished five most representative of them. The result is a family release called KTF Metro, aiming to preserve the typographic memory of the city. Additionally, the workshop leaders interviewed Oleg Totsky, a metro historian and specialist. His answers open up the context in which the Kyiv Metro letters emerged and supplement the showcased typefaces respectively.
Show your support for Ukrainian and Cyrillic type design! The typeface is entirely free of charge for Ukrainians—but as Ukraine is still in a state of emergency, the creators of the typeface and the Kyiv Type Foundry would like to ask you for a donation. Use their PayPal (paypal.com/paypalme/kyivtypefoundry), and they’ll distribute the money among those in a need and report by the end of 2024.
Learn more about the project and download the fonts here!
Between Protest and Poetry
Between Protest and Poetry is a flexible protest-kit comprised of jackets with a hanging system and removable cardboard letters – making it easy to create different messages as forms of demonstration or daily poetry.
VOLIA (ВОЛЯ)
When you look at this poster, you are a free bird that flies over a free Ukraine. You can see steppes, mountains, and rivers. You can fly very high or go down and almost touch the ground. You can speed up so the image below will blur or slow down and hover above the ground, examining all the tiny details.
This poster is a flight of your imagination that can last as long as you want.
A Jersey for ABK Stuttgart
The new jersey for Stuttgart Art Academy’s football club was designed using a fully typographic approach. A white jersey, custom letterings and numbers form the teams identity.
The longest journey
The longest journey typographic illustration for a fashion show
Gold swim wear
Gold swim wear typographic illustration for a fashion show
3VC
3VC typographic illustration for a fashion show
A-Z-Shirt (without T)
This project extends the idea of a T-Shirt to all the letters of the alphabet.
Body Experimental Typeface
This project was Haocheng’s research during his time in Belgium. He seeks to explore the dynamic visual language of bodily movement, capturing the structure between typography and the human form, while also delving into the emotional resonance of bodily expressions. Through collaborative efforts, Haocheng engages in cross-disciplinary exploration, collaborating with costume designer Bingyan Wu to push the boundaries of experimental design.
Footnotes
All Knit, No Quit on these custom Crew Socks made for the Designer who knows that (Point) Size Matters.
TypeFace Cover
I created this bandana as a way to stay optimistic about the future. We were living in a time where masks were essential to everyday life. But I was hopeful there would be a future when we would not need them. This bandana was designed to have a life beyond the pandemic and could be worn over your face, around your neck, on your head or simply displayed as art on the wall.
Body Experimental Typeface
This project was Haocheng’s research during his time in Belgium. This project aimed to explore body consciousness. It seeks to explore the dynamic visual language of bodily movement, capturing the structure between typography and the human form, while also delving into the emotional resonance of bodily expressions. Haocheng engages in cross-disciplinary exploration, collaborating with costume designer Bingyan Wu and model Anna Potsiluyko to push the boundaries of experimental design.
BT Flimmer Scarf
Keep yourself, your friends, your family and your pets(?) warm with this eye-catching tricolor scarf. Displaying its potential of detailed and varied glyphs, BT Flimmer adorns this scarf with its unique letters. On one side the letters are upscaled and are only shown in fragments. On the other side the full name of the Typeface is written out. The tricolor scarf is knitted with green, white and black acrylic yarn.
FAST FASHION KILLS
Woven typographic handmade rugs, as part of a campaign to raise awareness to the polluting fashion industry and Shopping addiction during Copenhagen Fashion Week.
The campaign took place in ILLUM, A shrine of consumer culture and shopping, located in the center of the world’s longest shopping pedestrian street.
read more here: https://rotemcohensoaye.com/FASTFASHIONKILLS
365 Days of TAU
One year anniversary T-shirt design for the German record label TAU using a beta version of my custom typeface UNKNOWN. T-shirts are purchasable here. Photography by Felix Krüger.
COOO
ΗΕΑΗΘΣ
ACUS
The name ACUS is an inverted word SUCA, which stands for the Italian expression for suck (blowjob) originally from Sicily. The logo was founded from the process of creating denim shorts. Buying vintage original denim jeans at a flea market and then shortening them into sexy shorts
Call for Submissions: TYPE FASHION
We’re very excited to announce our new Call for Submissions: our next Slanted Magazine #44 will be dedicated to the topic of TYPE FASHION!
Slanted Magazine #44—TYPE FASHION explores the intersection of typography and fashion. We’re seeking submissions that push the boundaries of conventional design, embracing cutting-edge typography as a dynamic canvas for fashion expression.
Submission Deadline: Sunday, April 28th, 2024
Typeknitting
Rüdiger Schlömer is a graphic designer, educator, and book author based in Zürich. With Typeknitting, he explores the typographic potential of hand knitting techniques. As a dialogue between digital typography / type design and the analog craft of knitting, this results in knitting patterns, posters and typefaces. His book “Pixel, Patch und Pattern. Typeknitting“ received a Certificate of Typographic Excellence from the TDC New York. He gives workshops in schools, museums and knitting festivals.
Fight for Kindness
Recognizing the falling off of genuine kindness in today’s world, Fight for Kindness is a global initiative calling upon the design community to harness the power of typography to promote the values of kindness. This project converges art and empathy to illuminate kindness, peace, trust, inclusiveness, and ethical integrity.
In its third edition of the non-profit Fight for Kindness campaign, TypeCampus urges any kind of visual designer to use typography to promote kindness values globally. Recognized for its impact, this award-winning initiative promotes typographical messages to inspire concrete forms of kindness. Sponsored by the Italian type foundry Zetafonts and with the support of the co-partners Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, Francesco Canovaro and the TypeCampus team, Debora Manetti carries out this project alongside the talented designer Shrishti Vajpai, struggling every day with the time zone between Florence and New Delhi.
The success of this campaign is further attributed to the enthusiasm of the design community and thanks to the invaluable support of notable partners including Type Directors Club, C2Awards, Communication Arts, Indigo Awards, Typeroom, People of Print, Farmani Group, Hadath Alkhatt, the European Art Directors Club (now part of The One Club) and many more.
TypeCampus annually promotes a multi-location exhibition of selected posters to celebrate World Kindness Day in early November. The complete contributor’s catalog will be released in early 2025. Fight for Kindness seeks to demonstrate typography’s remarkable capacity to convey potent and transformative messages.
Be part of Fight for Kindness, let’s celebrate kindness together!
Fight for Kindness: The 2024 Call for Typographic Messages Is Open
When?
The deadline for submissions for the 2024 edition is May 31st, 2024.
Where?
Exhibitions will be worldwide, early in November.
Credits: Tina Touli, Emiliyana Kancheva, Bhoomi Mistry, Victoria Englund, Nathan Bell, Leagas Delaney Italia, Daniel Caetano, Akshita Chandra, David Jon Walker, Amer Alissa
DRP poster festival
DRP is a festival that celebrates urban culture and takes place in Paris. For this occasion, they ask Marc Armand to create the poster for the event. He decides to pay tribute to urban fashion and draws inspiration from the iconic fabrics and materials that compose it (jacquard, puffer jacket, all-over monogram), and creates various DRP logos. Laura Le Gal then develops these logos both as motifs and patterns on different materials to create a sort of clothing market heap.
Letterchain
Emerging out of a font designed especially for MIGLĖ by the Berlin-based graphic studio Hanzer Liccini, Letterchain is a collection which fuses jewellery with typography: a classic curb chain metamorphosizes into letters and symbols to form names and words.
Available in silver and gold, three customizable jewellery pieces – necklace, bracelet and earring – come with the dowloadable Letterchain font, combining the digital and the analog.