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Fonts in use: The typeface Pangea Text for the project City of Arts, the Vietnamese city of Đà Lạt
Đà Lạt
With the project City of Arts, the Vietnamese city of Đà Lạt transforms its cultural heritage into a visual experience. The branding was developed by Behalf Studio in Hanoi using Pangea Text.
Fonts in use: The West typeface for the book ‘Wilde Elbe’
Wilde Elbe
The 200-page photo book was designed by the Munich design office of Schmid/Widmaier. The headlines and captions are set in West.
Fonts in Use: The West typeface for the “New Objectivity” exhibition catalog
Neue Sachlichkeit
The Kunsthalle Mannheim is dedicating a major exhibition to the phenomenon of “New Objectivity”. The accompanying exhibition catalog is set in Daniel Perraudin’s West typeface.
The African version of the inclusive font family Pangea serves as the house font for the African Film & Art Festival
African Film + Art Festival
‘Choosing a font was vital because we required one that could also handle Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo or Lingala movie or song titles.’, says designer Osmond Tshuma about one of the reasons for picking Pangea Afrikan.
The Nice type system in use for the Soлomiya Art Magazine Nº 2 – Cover, Nice Poster
Solomiya № 2
After the first edition, the designers were so ‘thrilled with the smooth appearance of the typeface’ that Nice (Poster, Headline and Text) was being used again in the 2nd edition.
The Nice typeface superfamily in use for the Soлomiya Art Magazine – Cover, Nice Poster
Solomiya
Photographers Sebastian Wells and Vsevolod Kazarin decided to start a project with and about young people in Ukraine and so the foundation was laid for an extraordinary art magazine – set in Nice Poster and Nice Text.
Case Text and Nikolai in use for the catalog “200 Years of the Frauenbad – Building Culture and the Art industry in the Spa Town of Baden near Vienna”
200 Years of the Frauenbad
To mark the 200th anniversary of the Frauen- und Carolinenbad in the Austrian spa town of Baden, an exhibition at the Arnulf Rainer Museum documented its history.The accompanying catalog is based on a perfect combination of Case and Nikolai.
Fonts in use: West typeface for Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
In Dresden’s world famous museum, West’s capital letters are used almost exclusively, center justified, which corresponds to the typographical conventions of the Baroque period.
Fonts in use: McQueen typeface for Ridley Howard Exhibition Book ‘Shorelines’
Ridley Howard ‘Shorelines’
When Creative Director Magnus Naddermier was hired by the Paris-based gallery Andréhn-Schiptjenko to design ‘Shorelines’—the first publication covering the works of American painter Ridley Howard—he decided to use the Display variant of the McQueen family.