02 NOVEMBER 2011

DesignThinkers 2011

Christian Schwartz will be speaking at the Association of Registered Graphic Designers' 12th annual DesignThinkers Conference in Toronto, along with an impressive list of designers from all areas of graphic design. For more information please visit the DesignThinkers site.

26 AUGUST 2011

Lecture by Christian Schwartz at Les Rencontres internationales de Lure

Christian Schwartz will be speaking on "Obsessions in Type Design" at the 2011 Rencontres internationales de Lure, a weeklong conference on typography taking place the week of August 21-26 in Lurs, Alpes de Haute Provence, France. For more information, please visit the conference website (in French).

15 JUNE 2011

Interview in Codex

Christian and Paul were interviewed by Sébastien Morlighem for the inaugural issue of Codex a new journal on typography from John Boardley, the man behind I Love Typography. The print run was limited, but copies should still be available at codexmag.com.

13 JUNE 2011

Paul Barnes and Christian Schwartz in Australia: AGDA International Speakers Tour

13 June: Perth, WA
14 June: Adelaide, SA
15 June: Hobart, Tasmania cancelled
16 June: Melbourne, Victoria
17 June: Workshop in Melbourne
20 June: Sydney, NSW
21 June: Brisbane, Queensland
22 June: Canberra, ACT cancelled

Paul Barnes and Christian Schwartz will be touring Australia in June, giving 7 talks and a workshop over 12 days. Their lecture will touch on a number of the projects they have collaborated on, and discuss how they came together to form Commercial Type.

For more information on exact time, locations, and ticket pricing, please visit AGDA's website.

10 JUNE 2011

Lecture by Paul Barnes at The Design Society, Singapore

Paul Barnes will be lecturing about his work at The Design Society in Singapore. Please visit The Design Society's website for more information and to make a booking.

02 FEBRUARY 2012 | JOBS

Commercial Type has an immediate opening for a Font Technician

We are offering a full-time position with benefits for someone to handle mastering and testing of fonts in both current and legacy formats, and to handle technical support. Ideal candidates will have an interest in and experience with webfont production and implementation.

Requirements include:
- BA or equivalent in a relevant field
- A minimum of 2+ years of professional experience with font production
- Working knowledge of Python
- Fluency in both the Mac OS and Windows

We will provide assistance with relocation to New York if needed, but working offsite is a possibility. Interested parties please send CV and salary requirements to jobs[at]commercialtype.com

12 JANUARY 2012 | RELEASES

New release: Marian by Paul Barnes

Commercial Type is pleased to announce the release of Marian, a new typeface family in 19 styles designed by Paul Barnes. Marian is a series of faithful revivals of some of the greats from the typographic canon: Austin, Baskerville, Bodoni, Fournier, Fleischman, Garamont, Granjon, Kis and van den Keere. The twist is that they have all been rendered as a hairline of near uniform weight, revealing the basic structure at the heart of the letterforms. Together they represent a concept: to recreate the past both for and in the present.

Stretching over a period of nearly two and a half centuries from the mid sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century, they represent a period when the serif typeface as used in book typography was the dominant style. From the high Renaissance of Granjon and Garamont through to the Scotch roman; all the styles are represented: old style, transitional, and finally the modern. Painstakingly researched from original sources, together they represent a concept album of cover versions of the standards of type design.

Faithful to the originals, Marian comes with small capitals in all nine roman styles, with lining and non-lining figures, with swash capitals (1554, 1740, 1800 & 1820), alternate and terminal characters (1554 & 1571). And like the hidden track so beloved of the concept album, Marian is completed by a Blackletter based on the work of Henrik van den Keere. Please click here to see more.

23 DECEMBER 2011 | CUSTOM TYPEFACES | PUBLICATIONS

Druk XXXX Condensed and more for 2011 Bloomberg Businessweek Year in Review

2011 was a densely packed and chaotic year, so the type needed to help reflect this in Bloomberg Businessweek's Year in Review issue. Berton Hasebe added some very dramatically condensed versions to his already very condensed sans family Druk, while Christian Schwartz pulled some Neue Haas Grotesk numerals in the opposite direction. Berton also provided some impossibly condensed pieces of lettering, for places where even Druk XXXX Condensed wasn't quite narrow enough. The illustration on the 4-part cover is by James Dawe.