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Yesterday* is a curated collection of immersive large-scale prints from the photographic archives of New Zealand.

We use a combination of Mānuka Black and Mānuka Slab by Klim Type Foundry as our headline fonts. Mānuka Slab is primary used for product names and locations. Mikhail Sharanda’s Manrope is used for UI and information copy.

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The asterisk in the logo acknowledges the artists and archives who inspired us to start Yesterday*.

Front page of the first print issue of Heimildin from 13 January 2023

Heimildin (“The Source”) is an Icelandic media company committed to use investigative journalism to provide the public with access to independent information. The firm was founded in 2023 following the merger of Stundar and Kjarnan. It publishes a daily news website and a biweekly printed newspaper that’s also named Heimildin.

The new look was conceived by Jón Ingi Stefánsson, co-founder and former design director of Stundar. For the logo/nameplate, Stefánsson chose the Bold weight of Rector. This lapidary serif was designed by Hrvoje Živčić, and won him a Certificate of Typographic Excellence by the TDC. With its sharp details – like the wedge-shaped bars in H and e – Rector perfectly reflects Heimildin’s aspiration to be an incisive voice in Iceland’s media landscape. It’s also used for the logo of the supplement Menning (“Culture”), here starring its sculptural M and the defiant g. Rector is available from Production Type in a family of six weights in roman and italic. There is also Rector Display with Hairline and Outline styles.

Main headlines in the print edition often feature Mānuka. This tall, compact sans was designed by Kris Sowersby, taking inspiration from old German poster types. It was released by Klim Type Foundry, alongside Mānuka Slab and an even narrower Mānuka Condensed. The serif used in the newspaper and on the website is Tiempos, by the same type designer and foundry. It appears in two of its three optical sizes, Headline and Text.

Heimildin’s font stack is completed by Sanomat Sans by Commercial Type. This typeface was originally designed for another Nordic newspaper, the Finnish Helsingin Sanomat, and is part of a series that also includes Stencil and Slab variants. Heimildin makes use of its Sans Text styles optimized for small sizes.

Issue 006 with headlines in Mānuka

Covers of the supplement Menning with cultural news, featuring Rector Bold for the nameplate

“This is just the beginnning” in Tiempos Headline – front page from issue 038, January 2024, about the volcanic eruptions in the Reykjanes peninsula

“The government was warned” – when the situation in the area around Grindavík got more serious after the eruption on 8 February 2024, Heimildin deviated from the standard layout for issue 041 and placed the logo on top of the ominous photograph.

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This is a proposed rebrand for a publishing company called Zubaan, made as a student project at the School of Visual Arts, New York.

Zubaan is an independent feminist publishing house based in New Delhi. They publish academic books, fiction, memoirs, popular nonfiction, and books for children and young adults, always aiming to be pioneering, cutting-edge, progressive and inclusive.

Zubaan is an Urdu word that roughly translates to “voice” or “word”. The primary logo is set in Robinson to stay true to the Urdu origins of the word. However, the book covers use Mānuka to reflect the bold content.

The academic series of book covers is type only. The anthology series takes inspiration from textiles from each of the northeastern states on which the books are based. The Projects series studies sexual violence in southeast Asian countries like India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal.

See more images in the project documenatation.

The Academic Series

The Anthology series from North East India

The Sexual Violence and Impunity series

Gradient Type’s PolySans (incl. the Mono), Klim Type Foundry’s Mānuka and Florian Karsten's FK Roman are used as working typefaces for the new Verge. The design was developed in-house. From The Verge’s release notes:

We’ve got a whole new Verge for you today. Radically new. Sometimes you just have to blow things up and start over.

Yes, we have a sharp new logo that started with the idea of an unfinished interface between the present and the future. Yes, we have a bright new color palette that highlights our work in confident new ways. Yes, we have new typefaces across the board, including serifs for our body copy. Look at these ink traps in our new headline font, PolySans. I love them.

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YODO (#YouOnlyDesignOnce) is a column devoted to graphic design, published every month in IL magazine. IL is designed and art directed by Francesco Franchi. The headline is set in a different typeface each time the column appears. Frauen Script, designed by Lucas Sharp for Incubator, was used in issue no.75 of IL magazine, November 2015.

The text combines several styles of Euclid Flex (Swiss Typefaces) and Tiempos, with Founders Grotesk Text (both by Klim) used for captions. Shown below are clippings of the headers from IL no.64 (October 2014) to no.77 (January 2016). You can see full images of all of the YODO columns here: francescofranchi.com/youonlydesignonce

Mallory Black Italic (Frere-Jones Type)

Tesla Slab Caps C (Typonine)

Frauen Script (Incubator)

Eksell Display (Letters from Sweden)

Blanche (mediumextrabold)

Retiro (Typofonderie)

Le Colonel (ECAL Typefaces)

Basis Grotesque (Colophon)

Robinson (Commercial Type)

Manuka Ultra (Klim, custom)

GT Haptik (Grilli Type)

Algebra (Commercial Type)

Chiswick Sans High (Commercial Type)

Parmigiano (Typotheque)

Gandur Alte Halbfett (Blackletra)