Redesigned in 2017 and art directed by Studio Ard until 2020, Tate Etc. is an independent art magazine published three times a year by the Tate Gallery in London. […] Tate Etc. issue 44 coincided with the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus movement. To celebrate, Studio Ard invited type designer Julien Mercier to revive Fregio Mecano, a modular font of Italian origin designed in the mid 1920s. Mercier’s Nuovo Fregio Mecano is a variable font developed in five different weights and three different heights that allowed us to compose a variety of dynamic headlines across the magazine and on the cover.