Typefaces:
Osram, by Selina Bernet
Italian, by Tania Chacana
Calyces, by Charlotte Rohde
Zangezi, by Daria Petrova
Nilon, by Maharani Yasmine Putri
Roba, by Franziska Weitgruber

Currently under development, Osram draws inspiration from a poster for the light bulb manufacturer Osram, designed by Armin Hofmann. The regular cut was extended with italics as well as additional weights and widths, referencing letterforms from other graphic works of the modernist era. Selina Bernet is a Swiss graphic and type designer based in Zürich. Besides working at Studio Laurenz Brunner, she tweaks the curves of her own typefaces. Hard facts: originally from St. Gallen she studied visual communication in Bern, lived and worked one year in Buenos Aires, was an intern in Reykjavik and Berlin and went to The Hague for her master studies. Soft facts: she really likes ping pong.

Italian, a typeface in progress, started as the serif companion to Uomo, a sans serif designed and released in 2014. Based on Italian art deco lettering; it includes different weights and widths from condensed to expanded, italics, and an extensive set of ligatures, contractions, and nests. Tania Chacana is an independent (Berlin-based), graphic, and type designer. After getting a BA in Graphic Design (Santiago - Chile), she moved to Argentina where she completed the postgraduate Career in Typeface Design at the University of Buenos Aires. Later on and after working on several projects including research, she completed her MA in Typeface Design at the University of Reading.

Designed to read like an opera, Calyces is a sharp, romantic, and elegant typeface with a hint of pathos, that is, arousing feelings of pity, sympathy, tenderness, or sorrow. The name “Calyces” refers to the outermost part of a flower, consisting of the sepals. Charlotte Rohde is a German designer working in the crossroads between typography and art. Currently based in Amsterdam, her practice deals with how type can embody and shape social discourses and consciousness. Her typefaces either depart from or are interwoven by feminist concepts. They focus on how emotionality can empower visual voices.

Named after a poem by Russian futurist poet Velimir Khlebnikov, Zangezi features what at first might seem like too many features for one typeface: uneven proportions, tight spacing, distinctive diagonal stress, bouncing counters, raised midline, and aggressive wedge serifs accompanied by adventurous curves. A homage to Salem, the 1901 Keystone Foundry typeface, Zangezi toned down some of the eccentricities of its original, while at the same time exaggerating others. Daria Petrova is a Russian type designer based in Berlin. Since graduating from the TypeMedia course in 2016, Daria spends her days working at LucasFonts and her nights drawing odd typefaces and praying for victorian typography to come and take over again soon.

Nilon is a serif typeface optimized for textile embroidery. Taking inspiration from the 19th-century sharp-serifed Etienne as well as the quirky inconsistencies of Berthold Wolpe’s Pegasus, Nilon is optically and digitally adjusted to the limitations in achieving sharp corner and angles in embroidery, compensating with smoother wedge serif and small but sharp ink-traps. Maharani Yasmine Putri is an Indonesian graphic designer based in Lausanne, Switzerland. She graduated from the Master of Type Design at ECAL (École cantonale d'art de Lausanne), Lausanne in 2019 and Bachelor of Graphic Design in School of Visual Arts, New York. Her interests span visual identity, editorial design and type design, both in commercial and cultural applications.

Roba is a time traveler from the 1920s who has been living in our time for a while. Proportions show influence from roman caps, creating a distinct pattern and playing with form and counterform. Breaking with the ideal and dogma of equal inner space within the letters make Roba somewhat rebellious. Roba’s large and short ascenders and descenders allow tight setting for bold compositions. Franziska Weitgruber is an Austrian type and graphic designer based between Vienna and South Tyrol. She graduated from the Type and Media master course at the Royal Academy of Arts Den Haag in 2016. Her work explores the transitions between analog and digital techniques trying to push tools and materials to the limits while bringing letters to life.