Joachim Muller-Lance: "modular mirrors and interlocking shapes"

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Joachim Muller-Lance, a type designer and a graphic designer has a habit of creating unusual and totally unexpected designs. His Kanji typeface Shirokuro concept of interlocking shapes of black and white within a square is a rare idea just like his bilingual ambigram that can be read backwards and forwards, upside-down or in a mirror.

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Hoefler and Frere-Jones

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The association of two extremely talented and prolific type designers, Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere -Jones and the success of the Hoefler Type Foundry is discussed. It is surprising that when designers struggle to achieve a single good type ace, the duo move comfortably in both the European tradition and the American vernacular.

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Face 2 Face: A dialogue on typographic design

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Typographer Maxim Zhukov discusses the details of the typefaces that are presented in Language Culture Type, which showcases the winners of 'ATypl's bukva: raz! competition'. The work of Russian designer, Tagir Safayev is chosen to highlight on various aspects of this typeface design.

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