05 MARCH 2012 | PUBLICATIONS
Público refreshed
Mark Porter and Simon Esterson have refreshed their 2007 redesign of Público with some additions to the type palette. Primary headline typography is now in the upcoming Publico Banner, a tighter and sharper display component to the Publico family that the two had commissioned for the last major overhaul, and a new Extrabold weight of Giorgio Sans, drawn by Commercial Type designer Vincent Chan. Chan also designed a Deck size of Giorgio Sans in 4 weights, making it possible to use this dramatically condensed family for bylines, running headers, and other small display type. The type palette is rounded out with Graphik, used for captions and info graphics.
The Fugas section, launching its new look later in the week, features a heavily swashed homage to late 1970s advertising lettering by Berton Hasebe.
25 FEBRUARY 2012 | PUBLICATIONS
BULLETT magazine
The Spring 2012 "Obsessed Issue" of glossy style magazine BULLETT uses an all-new type palette made up of upcoming and existing typefaces from Commercial Type, selected in collaboration with Nick Vogelson.
Headlines and display typography are in Portrait, a work in progress by Berton Hasebe that draws inspiration from the Renaissance roman forms of Constantine (c. 1530s), with a minimalist approach to details and sharply pretty Latin serifs. Text is in Kai Bernau's Lyon Text, and captions are in the soon-to-be-released Atlas Grotesk, originally drawn for Munich Re by Kai Bernau and Susana Carvalho with Christian Schwartz. This issue also features a special set of brightly colored Giorgio Sans Bold titling caps assembled out of small toys and knickknacks. Giorgio Sans also provided a starting point for Vogelson's subtle tweak nameplate for the magazine.
19 FEBRUARY 2012 | PUBLICATIONS
Platform in Glamcult independent style paper
Platform is the main typeface for both headlines and text in the recent redesign of Glamcult, a large-format independent style paper based in the Netherlands. The February 2012 issue, where the redesign debuted, featured a short interview with Berton Hasebe.
23 DECEMBER 2011 | 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.
