Adam Ladd is a graphic designer and typographer based in Cincinnati, Ohio. While he’s worked in the field professionally since 2003, he didn’t really explore type design until 2013 and even then, it was more a hobby than anything else. At the time, he was working as an art director and designer ...
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Born in Moscow, Elena Genova is a hand lettering artist and type designer, and the founder of My Creative Land, a boutique type foundry that specializes in calligraphy and handwritten fonts. The foundry is operated out of Edinburgh, Scotland, where Elena has been living for the past decade. She ...
LatinoType has carved out a notable name for itself in the type design industry. Run by Miguel Hernández, Luciano Vergara, and Daniel Hernández, the Chilean type foundry follows a mantra first coined by Pablo Picasso: "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working." And work, they do. Over ...
Based in Florence, Italy, Zetafonts was founded by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, Debora Manetti, and Francesco Canovaro well over a decade ago. Over the years that have passed since, the type foundry has collaborated with a number of graphic designers and typographers around the world. Zetafonts consi...
September 18, 2018
Couturier Provides High Class And High Fashion In Text Form
Chile's first digital type foundry was established in 2007 and it's certainly gone on to make a name for itself since then. LatinoType was founded by Miguel Hernández, who would later be joined by both Luciano Vergara and Daniel Hernández. Together, the trio has collaborated with a growing numbe...
September 11, 2018
Signature-Style Handwriting With Belfast – A Dry Brush Script
Products made for graphic designers – like templates, vector art, and type designs – can be a great source of passive income for typographers and graphic designers. By coming up with a brilliant idea or design, crafting it to perfection, and making it available for purchase, you're not only doin...
July 31, 2018
Handcrafted Bronwen Brings A Touch Of Magic And Myth
David Kerkhoff didn't have childhood dreams of becoming a professional typographer. The thought had never entered his mind, but even so, a career in typography is exactly where he ended up one day. Life is kind of funny like that sometimes. Careers can evolve from the strangest and most unexpect...
March 16, 2018
A Quirky Hand-Drawn Serif From Adam Ladd: Neato Serif
Adam Ladd is a Cincinnati-based designer with a wealth of experience in the field of professional design, including graphic design, art direction, logo design, branding, print design, and type design. His work tends to largely favor vintage aesthetics, and over the years he's seen a great deal o...
August 1, 2017
A Modern Sans Serif Goes To College: TT Polls
TypeType foundry was established as one of the very first dedicated type foundries in St. Petersburg. Alexander Kudryavtsev and Ivan Gladkikh launched TypeType in 2013, enjoying a great deal of success over the years that have since passed. They've worked with international corporations that inc...
June 1, 2017
A Thick, Vintage Brush Script: Volkschaft
In the modest village of Tanjung Morawa in North Sumatra, Indonesia, a pair of brothers have been hard at work in pursuit of a career in graphic design and typography. Youth often has a way of inspiring one to try anything -- to teach oneself how to do anything -- and that's exactly how Firman S...
In 2013, Alexander Kudryavtsev and Ivan Gladkikh established the TypeType foundry, one of the first dedicated type foundries in St. Petersburg. From the moment TypeType was launched, the foundry has placed an emphasis on collaboration with graphic designers and engineers, all in a ceaseless purs...
December 23, 2016
LatinoType’s Antonietta Blends Copperplate Styling With Rococo Decadence
As Chile's first digital type foundry established in 2007, LatinoType strives not only to deliver top quality letter sets to the worldwide graphic design community, but to support other type designers in their endeavors. LatinoType is a collective that is working hard to grow typography in Latin...