All about typography
The design team enjoyed a night of Typography at an event hosted by the South West Design Forum at the Arnolfini in Bristol. Speaking at the event were David Quay and Jeremy Tankard.
Jeremy, a graduate of Central St.Martins and The Royal College of Art took us through his process of designing his latest type superfamily ‘Trilogy’ inspired by William Goldings novel ‘To The Ends of The Earth’. This consisted of three individual fonts – one a Sans, an Egyptian font and the other a fatface script. We got a really good look inside his world when he showed us his sketchbooks and explained the intricacies of type design and the complications that came with designing three different faces.
Then we got to meet Amsterdam based type designer David Quay. David and his business partner set up their company ‘The Foundry’ in 1990. The Foundry develop custom typefaces, marks and logotypes for companies including: a special font for Yellow pages, corporate fonts for British Gas, NatWest and signage typefaces for the Lisbon Metro system in Portugal. David spoke about how he created a custom type family to be used as the new signage and orientation system for the City of Bath. He took his inspiration from the existing fonts scattered around the streets of Bath.
And we got a free book! (see pictures). Thanks for letting us into your world Jeremy and David!
