Circle Park Summercamp 2023
Located in the city of Anderlecht, Belgium, Circle Park is a former industrial terrain of 15,000 square meters. Awaiting redevelopment it is used for sports, workshops and all sorts of cultural events targeting both the local vicinity and a larger audience from the capital region of Brussels.
The 2023 Summercamp was not a single festival but a colorful bouquet of outdoor activities and festivities. The visual design in this posting acted as some sort of roof mark vaulting everything. With regard to the typefaces used, it might be described as a colorful bouquet just as much.
The typographic main act in most of the media is Blocked, a 3D font by Harold Lohner, based on Sally-Ann Grover’s precursor for Letraset from 1974. While rather hard to read, it certainly fulfills the role of eye-catcher perfectly.
The headlines one level down display Tempel Softland, designed by Reymund Schröder and published by Production Type. In use here is the Condensed variant which is the widest of the three widths available (the others being Ultra Condensed and Compressed). Tempel Softland’s design refers to wood type used to print posters. It’s conceived on a rigid rectangular scheme, using the maximal surface. Then, however, all its edges are rounded off.
On the third typographic level, Courier serves for the reading text. Originally designed by Howard Kettler of IBM as a typewriter face in 1955, it since became a prototype for many similar design approaches, a classic of the digital age.
In very small quantities you may spot a fourth font, the left-inclined Falling Script. It is the work of Masahiro Naruse and came to life on Future Fonts.
