Contemporary Type

Now open for bespoke type design projects. Get in touch if you need a custom font! Experience: This project is run by @slobzheninov, a designer with 10-ish years of type design experience with Pangram Pangram and new Flight Mode Type. He has designed over 20 font families and won TDC Ascenders & ADC Young Guns typography awards. He has developed an eye for contemporary branding needs through past work at &Walsh and curating this page for years. Contemporary Type is also in touch with great type designers for projects of various complexity.

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By @lenalabarussias: Une boîte à bonnes raisons de croire que ça va aller — des choses parfois simples, qui nous font du bien

By @sdfggvfvj: Little booklet I made for @valiz_books_projects (last summer). Using variations of Garamond :) ● get new fonts & submit works: ● contemporarytype.com

Discover Bizzarri, one of the latest releases on the platform! ● Free trials & simple licensing: ● contemporarytype.com/fonts/bizzarri Bizzarri by @blast_foundry (@dianaovezea) a dynamic type family drawing inspiration from the sleek lines of racing cars. With two distinct subfamilies – Bizzarri Headline and Bizzarri Text – this versatile typeface bridges the gap between impactful display work and legible body text. Tall ascenders, high contrast, and angular serifs give Bizzarri Headline version a sophisticated and bold presence in large formats. In contrast, Bizzarri Text subfamily softens these features, providing clarity and comfort for extended reading without sacrificing personality. The italics strike a unique balance between elegance and sharpness, enhancing the family’s versatility — and they each come with 3 different ‘w’ for you to choose from. Graphic design: @marie_santi_

By @noe_erb & @guillaumetourscher: Graphic identity for the exhibition What Francine Poitevin Has Sown, which brings contemporary artworks into dialogue with the collection of Francine Poitevin — a schoolteacher born in 1869, passionate about forgotten domestic objects: bonnets, snuffboxes, baskets, lamps… The exhibition explores the links between contemporary art and rural memory, through a sensitive, non-scientific collection now preserved at the Musée Sainte-Croix in Poitiers. 🤎💛 A heartfelt thank you to the exhibition curator Andréanne Béguin @andreannebeguin, and to Föhn @fohn____ for their curatorial support (oceane.thoron and @barbarafecchio). Thank you for your trust. 💛🤎

By @okrm_london: Frequencies (2024) addresses the notion of community through the lens of its making. For over a decade, it has involved members of Murillo’s family, studio team and collaborators, visiting 37 countries, over 400 schools around the globe, fixing over 50,000 raw canvas onto classroom desks, and inviting the students to freely mark, write and draw on them for a period of approximately six months. Strings of ideas stem from a central concept, each performs its role to build the singular form: materiality, image, typography, structure and symbol. Exemplified by the cover, the diagram, extracted and optimised from our first presentation slide (in its original form designated to articulate the pace and structure of the book). In this context it symbolises the ‘frequencies’ of multiple participants, across the globe, in a central orchestration, in relation to the overall project. It was a real pleasure to have the chance to invite our good friend Christopher Lawson to collaborate with us alongside Maite de Orbe, Marta Barina, Georgia Guirgui, Julia Caicedo Hurtado, Anna Pigot at Studio Oscar Murillo with editor Alessandro Rabottini, and associate Editor Bianca Stoppani. Thanks to Oscar for the confidence and trust in giving us space to develop a form for this beautiful artwork. @martabarina @maitedeorbe @christopherlawsonltd @laramayz @alessandro.rabottini @abinoppst @markgodfrey1973 @alessandro.rabottini @georgiaguirguis @ovowl @annapigeaux Publisher: @hatjecantzverlag Font: UN-11 @sourcetype @laurenzbrunner 📷 @josephliamreddy

Funky combinations Featuring some of our wonderful foundries: @fredsfonts @blast_foundry @morula_type @sebastien_sanfilippo @typeji @newglyph

By @herrpeterrrr: Schweizerische Nationalbank – Banknoten

By @2x4design: @twelve_shinsegae is Seoul’s latest specialty market, dedicated to a healthy lifestyle built on wellness, sustainability, and community. Working collaboratively with the Shinsegae brand team, we imagined an holistic identity used across the store experience from packaging and environment to the launch campaign, inspired by bold forms and pure ingredients. 2x4 Team: @georgiestout @sungjoong_kim @suzmay7 @clrdlne @inyeongcho @mizuki_hanada @mightywani Nate Rennick Select images courtesy Shinsegae Brand Design Department

By @d____gallo: The Prompt Book is the interactive part of Moving Through Images. It serves as a tool for (potentially aimless) movement and for altering one’s perspective within one’s immediate surroundings. With its experimental and flexible ways of application, it fosters an enhanced awareness of individual perception across both physical and virtual spaces. Moving Through Images: Explorations into Visual Reproduction, Perception and Randomness Published by Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz ISBN 978-3-99126-340-1 Available directly from me (@d____gallo), the webshop of Bibliothek der Provinz, major online bookselling platforms, or worldwide via selected bookshops.

By @chouchouchou.ch: Thinking outside the lattice 🙂‍↕️💢