Appearances and Press

08 MARCH 2010

Workshop and lecture by Christian Schwartz at CalArts

Workshop on 8-9 March 2010. Presentation on 8 March 2010.

Christian Schwartz will be teaching a 2-day workshop in Jeffrey Keedy's "Digital Type Design" class at California Institute of the Arts, and will also give an evening presentation on a few recent projects.

20 JANUARY 2010

A short article on Commercial Type was featured in the February 2010 issue of UK design magazine Creative Review. Subscribers can use the issue's packaging to grow tomato plants, while readers outside the UK can see the article on our facebook page.

19 JANUARY 2010

An interview with Christian Schwartz appears in the January 2010 issue of Wallpaper* magazine's Thailand edition. Interviews with Schwartz will also appear in upcoming issues of Thai design magazines art4D and Computer Arts. (Apologies to interested parties who are unable to read Thai.)

New Releases

11 FEBRUARY 2010

Commercial Type has released Publico, a serif typeface for publications with variations for use at Headline and Text sizes. Designed by Paul Barnes and Christian Schwartz, assisted by Kai Bernau and Ross Milne, this family now includes small caps and olstyle figures, expanding its usefulness beyond news. Although this family debuted in Mark Porter and Simon Esterson's 2006 redesign of Portuguese daily Público, it originated in the design process that resulted in the Guardian collection, and the two families share certain similarities, making for effective combinations between the two.

01 JANUARY 2010

Commercial Type's first release of 2010 is an expansion of the Austin family. Light and Ultra weights, drawn by Berton Hasebe for Alex Grossman's new design of WSJ magazine, extend the original into dramatic new territory, and are available now. At the same time, a magazine in Russia commissioned Cyrillic support for the original family, giving us an opportunity to work with Ilya Ruderman in Moscow. These are also available now, and include localized alternates for Bulgarian and Serbian.

05 OCTOBER 2009

Esquire continues to request new variations on the Stag family, the latest being Stag Sans Round, designed by Christian Schwartz and Ross Milne, now available for licensing.

Custom Typefaces

31 JANUARY 2010

Commercial Type partner Paul Barnes created lettering and numbers for all teams outfitted by Puma in the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations. Egypt have retained the cup, beating Ghana 1-0, and both teams were wearing kits designed by Puma. These kind of typefaces are quite a design challenge as they have to fulfill both FIFA and UEFA rules, while being distinctive, complimentary to the kits and be visible from a distance. See images of the type in use at Puma's press site.

01 NOVEMBER 2009

Various newspapers in Europe, including Sydsvenskan in Sweden and a newspaper group in Spain whose publications include El Correo and La Voz de Cádiz, have commissioned narrower variations on Guardian Sans Headline. Commercial Type designer Berton Hasebe drew the Condensed and Extra Condensed widths, which are now available on a limited basis. Please contact us for details.

01 OCTOBER 2009

Commercial Type, in collaboration with Susana Carvalho and Kai Bernau at Atelier Carvalho Bernau, have designed a new corporate typeface for reinsurance giants Munich Re. The designers at Munich Re requested a clean and respectable new typeface, and admantly wanted to avoid the late-2000s trends in corporate design: overly friendly forms, distinctive characters that are weird for the sake of being weird, and above all else, rounded corners. Instead, they wanted to retain their 20th century Grotesk roots in a new typeface with narrower proportions and less squareness overall. Our final result is a European Grotesk with American Gothic proportions and contrast. See samples and additional information at Atelier Carvalho Bernau.

This typeface family is only available to users within Munich Re and its worldwide affiliates and partners, and may be licensed only with written permission from Munich Re.