News from 2021

Serendipity sometimes plays a crucial role in bringing together designer and client, providing the impetus to complete unfinished sketches. Such was the case with Corridor, a custom typeface drawn by Tim Ripper for a new rebrand of the MIT Alumni Association by Michael Bierut’s team at Pentagram.

Orleans is a crisp and refined headline face by Paul Barnes that effortlessly synthesizes influences from various German and American calligraphic sans serifs into new forms. Though drawn for the redesign of the German edition of frieze, the magazine folded before the redesign was implemented. The typeface lives on, having been expanded into seven weights with accompanying italics.