Designer and typographer Kritika Dhariwal draws her fellow commuters on New York City’s A train as letterforms, building a typographic portrait series that uses shape, proportion, weight and gesture to capture the personalities and stories of everyday subway life. Kritika Dhariwal had a vision on the A train: what if…
Minneapolis-based interdisciplinary artist Essence Enwere designs a variable typeface rooted in the textures of Mississippi’s Black Delta, combining it with an artist book, archival research, original writing and a physical installation to explore African American ecomusicology and the use of type as cultural preservation. Essence Enwere began with a question…
Transdisciplinary designer and professor Catherine d’Amours harvests clay from specific territories, 3D-prints it into ephemeral typographic installations, then returns it to the earth, working directly against a modernist tradition that cut language from the conditions of its making. The earliest known form of writing is a mark pressed into clay.…
Pennsylvania-based mixed media artist and designer Christina Galbiati cuts, tears and overlaps individual Helvetica letters into dense xerographic collages on board, building compositions from mundane expressions like “Blah,” “Ugh” and “Hmm” to explore sensory overload, capitalism and the irreplaceable value of the human hand. Christina Galbiati could do this digitally.…
South Korea-based designer Hwain Jie translates musical sampling into a typographic system, building each letter of the word SAMPLE on a 5×5 grid and running it through four cycles of iterative exchange until every character contains traces of the others. Sampling in music means taking something, changing it and passing…
Athens-based design studio Sputnik reimagines the printed brochure as a puzzle for a physical rehabilitation practice, cutting four typographic layouts in half, mixing the pieces and placing them inside each other so patients can experience the satisfaction of reassembly. The idea is precise in its logic. REHAB is a physical…
Graduating NID designer Neya Prabu reimagines how the Tamil script can be learned through visual relationships and form, developing an experimental publication in the Netherlands that grew from her grandmother’s teaching methods and became a way to share a part of her cultural identity through design. The idea did not…
Designer and researcher Nathan Spainhour turns a decade of field photography across South Carolina barbecue restaurants into a collage-based book that treats hand-painted signs, improvised typography and roadside architecture as evidence of cultural memory, not aesthetic curiosity. South Carolina barbecue is not simply a regional food. “Careers are made by…
Berlin publisher TOC marks its tenth edition with a letterpress Tenth of December that pairs Zuzana Licko’s Filosophia with a deliberately chaotic set of chapter heading typefaces, combining optical illusion bookmaking with a typography that honours, then gleefully disrupts, Saunders’ own narrative spirit. Tenth of December is the tenth edition…
Cyprus-based Common Grounds Studio creates a custom Greek-Latin display typeface for a twelve-country arts festival, pairing it with an automation script that generates controlled typographic variation at scale to embody the festival’s theme of Evolving Identities. When Roots&Routes, a festival bringing together emerging artists from twelve countries, needed a typographic…
After a decade of growth, the French type foundry rebuilds from the ground up. After a decade of shaping contemporary type design, Blaze Type has launched a completely rebuilt version of its website. More than just a visual refresh, the new platform is a considered response to the realities of…
Designer Yazmin Salgado approaches typography as something that can live beyond the page. In her ongoing self-initiated project Embodied Typography, language becomes material, spatial and reflective, turning a simple word into an object that exists within the physical world. The project began as an exploration of how design can operate…
With VAINCU, NON DOMPTÉ (“Defeated, Not Tamed”), EDIE. transforms typography into something lived, worn, and felt. Screen printed onto textile and first presented in June 2024 at Noir Brillant in Rennes, France, the work formed part of LES CHIENS QUI ABOIENT (“The Dogs That Bark”), an exhibition where language, fabric,…
There is something about stepping away from the noise and returning to the press that recalibrates everything. In April 2025, Jarred Elrod spent three days printing letterpress at Tipoteca Italiana in Cornuda, Italy. Surrounded by one of the world’s most extraordinary collections of wood and metal type, he produced a…
Chaukor is a pixelated Devanagari typeface by Shivanshi Gupta, developed as part of a type design course at MIT Institute of Design Pune. Built entirely from four-sided rectilinear shapes, the name reflects both the visual construction and the conceptual intent behind the font: a simplified, bitmap-inspired system that combines playfulness…
Io Ritorno is a self-initiated risograph-printed, spiral-bound zine by Michael Vasquez, created under the name Vasqmic. Printed at Outlet in Portland, Oregon, where he previously worked as a studio assistant, the publication uses the studio’s materials and processes as a direct extension of his own practice. At its core, Io…
Living and working by the North Sea, Belgian graphic designer and typographer Ann Maelfeyt explores language as both a visual and poetic medium. Her project With A Grain Of Salt forms part of a solo exhibition opening on March 5th 2026, presenting her graphic design and photography as a portrait…
For more than ten years, London artist and designer Dex has poured a creative obsession into a singular ongoing project: a body of typographic maps that chart the city’s books, films, music, streets, and secret corners. What began in 2012 with The Literary London Map grew into a trilogy and…
In The Sensory Language of Flowers, graphic designer Celeste De Plano explores the intricate visual and tactile cues that flowers use to communicate with pollinators. Drawing inspiration from botanist Heather Whitney’s TED Talk, The Secret Language of Flowers, the zine investigates the invisible structures present on the surface of petals,…
In his latest work titled Find Your Own Way, Manchester based designer Matthew Melling reflects on the pressures of comparison, the unpredictability of life and the quiet strength that comes from trusting your own path. The piece was sparked by a simple moment at home, a conversation with his wife…