January/February 2023

Typography Annual | 13

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Design

Helmed by Chad Michael, this award-winning Dallas-based design firm has perfected the art of branding and packaging specialty goods.

Illustration

Lena Vargas

This Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic–based illustrator draws upon her subconscious as a powerful creative tool.

Exhibit

Tibet Museum environmental graphics

Alexandra Grandjacques and Markus Strümpel’s design for this Dharamshala, India–based museum provides Tibetans in exile a platform to tell their story in their own words.

Saucony House of Speed experiential campaign

An experiential installation created by DesignArmy introduces Paris Fashion Week attendees to the joy of Saucony’s Endorphin Pro 3 shoe.

NN Colroy

Marc Droz’s font Colroy, published by foundry Nouvelle Noire, retains the eye-catching nature of slab serif typefaces while optimizing for legibility.

Turf identity

Athletics’s identity system reflects the modular, flexible work of this acoustic design firm.

Ad Council “Love Lives On” campaign

The latest installment of R/GA’s and Ad Council’s Love Has No Labels campaign encourages us to combat hate crimes and discrimination with acts of love.

Copi identity and campaign

Span’s rebranding creates a culinary demand for an invasive fish species in the United States’s Great Lakes region.

Silvertown identity

A new modular identity by DNCO reacquaints Londoners with this industrial neighborhood as it transforms into a town center.

Vespa “Emma the Adventurer” film

The second installment in Where The Buffalo Roam’s partnership with Piaggio Studios, “Emma the Adventurer” tells the incredible Vespa story of artist Emma Trenchard.

Pepsi “Better with Pepsi” campaign

Drawing upon studies that conclude Pepsi best complements a burger, alma’s campaign circles Pepsi logos within popular fast-food chain packaging.

OREO public service campaign

Saatchi & Saatchi MEA and Publicis Groupe’s campaign helps shelter animals find homes with limited edition OREO packaging.

Fresh

Design

Serafim Mendes

This Porto, Portugal–based designer combines traditional graphic design with avant-garde technology.

Design

Loonatiks Design Crew

The results of this Athens-based firm’s research on word etymologies can yield wildly distinctive design solutions.

Illustration

Julien Posture

This Montréal-based illustrator pulls from his anthropological background to convey deep metaphorical images.

Illustration

Camelia Pham

This Hanoi-based illustrator fills her work with symbols that all intertwine to tell the story of her subjects.

Photography

Victoria Barmak

A passion for cleanliness, natural light and new perspectives informs this Mexico City–based photographer’s artistic vision.

Columns

Advertising

I Am The Postman And I’m Here To Kill Your Career

Ernie Schenck encourages ad creatives not to quiet quit but to demand better from their agencies.

Book Reviews

The Rob Roy American Wood Type Collection

Author and design educator David Shields presents a compendium of designer Rob Roy Kelly’s wood type collection and the relationships that helped form it.

Type Specimens

Through her collection of type specimens, author and design historian Dori Griffin examines the histories of typography and communication.

Strikethrough

To accompany an exhibition at the Letterform Archive, Silas Munro analyzes how protesters use and sometimes subvert typography to represent their causes.

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Typography Annual | 13

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