Switzerland
TagNon-Latin Type Design Workshop Series with Maria Doreuli & Krista Radoeva
The workshop will happen from august 23 to 26, 2017. The topic will be Cyrillic script, so get you prepared for new type-design adventures. The workshop will take place in the cultural hub Progr (Erlesen space) in Bern, Switzerland.
Dafi Kühne’s True Print in English and German
Meet Dafi Kühne, a Swiss designer who fuses contemporary graphic design with the century-old tradition of the letterpress. (more…)
In Memoriam: Karl Gerstner (1930–2016)
Swiss National Library rightfully will regard Karl Gerstner as “one of the most important innovators in typography, commercial art and corporate design” for centuries to come after his passing at the age of 86. Read the whole story at Typeroom.eu.
Footnotes magazine, issue A, 2016
Footnotes is a type design periodical published by La Police, a digital type foundry from Switzerland.
Non-latin type design workshop with David Březina
This guy collected a complete stone alphabet over 10 years
This whole stone alphabet has been collected in the swiss alps by André Quirinus Zurbriggen during the past 10 years. (more…)
Swiss Typefaces launched the Lab
Swiss Typefaces, a digital font library, offers 5 fresh experimental fonts in the Lab section and an upgraded website.
Cormorant, an open source display font family
Cormorant is an original design for an extravagant display serif typeface inspired by the Garamond heritage, hand-drawn and produced by Christian Thalmann (Catharsis Fonts).
Adrian Frutiger (1928–2015)
According to news spreading around social media, Adrian Frutiger passed away yesterday. Adrian Frutiger (24 May 1928 – 10 September 2015) was a renowned typeface designer from Switzerland best known for creating the Univers and Frutiger typefaces. (more…)
AGI Open Biel/Bienne conference
AGI Open is one of the leading international design conferences. 21–22 September 2015, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. (more…)