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01.09.2009, 16:22
Laura Meseguer - designer (b. Barcelona, 1968) at type-o-tones in Barcelona. She publishes as well as promotes all her type designs through her own type foundry, Type-�-Tones. In 2003-2004, she took a year off and took the postgraduate Type and Media course at KABK (Royal Academy of Art) in The Hague, Holland. She is a professor of typography in Spain. Author of TypoMag. Typography in Magazines (IndexBook) and co-author of Cómo crear tipograías. Del boceto a la pantalla (Tipo E).
Her typefaces:
Adelita.
Cortada: her first typeface. In 2012, she published the angular signage face Cortada Dos at Type O Tones.
Frankie (1992, a grunge font done with Juan Dávila). Frankie is the result of a process of erosion, photocopying, scanning and digitisation based on the Franklin Gothic type (1904, Morris Fuller Benton).
Gallard.
Guapa (2011). A thin monoline curlified display face with an art deco aroma. Followed in 2012 by Guapa Deco.
Lola.
Multi (2012). A magazine type family, with weights from hairline to black.
Rumba (2003-2007): this semi-script family won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition.
In 2009, the low-to-zero contrast Alexander Girard family was published by House Industries. It consists of Girard Sky, Girard Script, Girard Display, Girard Sansusie and Girard Slab in many weights and styles. It was created by Laura Meseguer based on the lettering used to announce the textile designs that Alexander Girard did for Herman Miller in 1955.
Magasin (2013, Type o Tones) is a connected retro-chic upright script typeface. She writes: Some examples that have inspired me are Corvinus (Imre Reiner, 1934) and Quirinus (Alessandro Butti, 1939) and the later Fluidum (1951), a kind of non-connected script version of Quirinus, also designed by Alessandro Butti for Nebiolo foundry.
http://www.laurameseguer.com/
Aka Josema Uros. Self-taught programmer in Barcelona, b. 1956, who set up the typefoundry Type-O-Tones in 1992. He is also involved in Neue in Barcelona. Since 1993 he has been teaching at Eina, Elisava, ESDI and IDEP.
His typefaces:
Arboria (2013). An art deco or architectural sans family published by Type O Tones.
Designer at type-o-tones in Barcelona of Ebu Script (2007). This is a techno script created together with Joan Barjau.
Chico (2009).
Hannover Modern (Type o Tones).
Joost (1995-2010). Also done at Type o Tones, this is a monoline geometric / organic family with an odd Futura Black style paino key Stencil thrown in. He writes that the inspiration came from the Bauhaus Dessau im Gewerbemuseum Basel exhibition poster, designed in 1929 by Franz Ehrlich after a sketch by Joost Schmidt, and hence the name Joost.
Memimas (2007). A connected upright script, done with Joan Barjau at Type o Tones.
Matricia (2007). A dot matrix face done at TypeOTones done with Pera Ribalta.
Mundo Demibold (Type o Tones).
Vulcano (2007, TypeOTones). A typeface developed together with Tori Alimbau and Luis Mendo.
At KABK in Den Haag, where he did graduate work in type design, he created Rumba as a final project (2004).
http://www.type-o-tones.com/
http://www.myfonts.com/foundry/Type-%C3%98-Tones/
Her typefaces:
Adelita.
Cortada: her first typeface. In 2012, she published the angular signage face Cortada Dos at Type O Tones.
Frankie (1992, a grunge font done with Juan Dávila). Frankie is the result of a process of erosion, photocopying, scanning and digitisation based on the Franklin Gothic type (1904, Morris Fuller Benton).
Gallard.
Guapa (2011). A thin monoline curlified display face with an art deco aroma. Followed in 2012 by Guapa Deco.
Lola.
Multi (2012). A magazine type family, with weights from hairline to black.
Rumba (2003-2007): this semi-script family won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition.
In 2009, the low-to-zero contrast Alexander Girard family was published by House Industries. It consists of Girard Sky, Girard Script, Girard Display, Girard Sansusie and Girard Slab in many weights and styles. It was created by Laura Meseguer based on the lettering used to announce the textile designs that Alexander Girard did for Herman Miller in 1955.
Magasin (2013, Type o Tones) is a connected retro-chic upright script typeface. She writes: Some examples that have inspired me are Corvinus (Imre Reiner, 1934) and Quirinus (Alessandro Butti, 1939) and the later Fluidum (1951), a kind of non-connected script version of Quirinus, also designed by Alessandro Butti for Nebiolo foundry.
http://www.laurameseguer.com/
Aka Josema Uros. Self-taught programmer in Barcelona, b. 1956, who set up the typefoundry Type-O-Tones in 1992. He is also involved in Neue in Barcelona. Since 1993 he has been teaching at Eina, Elisava, ESDI and IDEP.
His typefaces:
Arboria (2013). An art deco or architectural sans family published by Type O Tones.
Designer at type-o-tones in Barcelona of Ebu Script (2007). This is a techno script created together with Joan Barjau.
Chico (2009).
Hannover Modern (Type o Tones).
Joost (1995-2010). Also done at Type o Tones, this is a monoline geometric / organic family with an odd Futura Black style paino key Stencil thrown in. He writes that the inspiration came from the Bauhaus Dessau im Gewerbemuseum Basel exhibition poster, designed in 1929 by Franz Ehrlich after a sketch by Joost Schmidt, and hence the name Joost.
Memimas (2007). A connected upright script, done with Joan Barjau at Type o Tones.
Matricia (2007). A dot matrix face done at TypeOTones done with Pera Ribalta.
Mundo Demibold (Type o Tones).
Vulcano (2007, TypeOTones). A typeface developed together with Tori Alimbau and Luis Mendo.
At KABK in Den Haag, where he did graduate work in type design, he created Rumba as a final project (2004).
http://www.type-o-tones.com/
http://www.myfonts.com/foundry/Type-%C3%98-Tones/