Thursday, March 6, 2008

Type designs from MA students at the University of Reading


I love how the type design community is small enough that almost everyone is connected in some way! So, I was looking through flickr images the other day and I found photos from a group of students who were students at the University of Reading MA in type design. - I clicked through some links, and ultimately found specimens of the typefaces they designed. And lo and behold, my teacher Nicole Dotin was in their class! And, to make things even dandier, three of the students had designed typefaces that had accompanying South Asian faces!!!

Above is Surat, a Gujarati design by David Brezina.
Vesper, a Devanagari typeface by Rob Keller.
and Frida, a Tamil typeface by Fernando de Mello Vargas.

Absolutely beauuutiful designs! Download the pdfs to get a closer look!
Also check out the previous class - someone made an Arabic face, another chose Tibetan!

2 comments:

Unknown said...

In fact, there have been two Arabic faces, Nadine's and Titus's. By the end of the summer, there should also be two more, as two students in this year's group are designing for Arabic as well.

Erin said...

Amazing!!!! That is wonderful news!