As a “sample”
font, FRISCO_REMIX represents a special group of graphic and typeface
designers. Not so much because they share they same views or esthetics,
but merely because of they share a geographic location: The Bay Area
in California with San Francisco as its epicenter.
For this font, each designer created a lowercase and a capital, as
a specimen for their design style, esthetics, humor, visual language,
craftsman ship or philosophy.
“Space” was initially the theme for the assignment. What
does space mean in a typographic context, other than pushing the space
bar or spacing the letters in a word? Can type design express the
quality of what space is or can be? Although “a letter can be
anything, and anything can be a letter,” the intention is to
create something within the designers design philosophies.
Although all experiments were welcome, to compose a “working”
alphabet, letters and numerals were required to represent their
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corresponding key on the
key board. As one can imagine, a wide variation of wonderful ideas
and designs returned over the last summer months. Designs pushing
the concept of the theme, challenging the letter form, designs celebrating
pure decoration, and others as a gentle smile or as a provocative
comment.
The Republic of Type proudly presents the work of 34 type designers,
letter artists and illustrators: Michael Abbink, Erik Adigard, Bob
Aufuldish, Mike Bartalos, John Bielenberg, Adam Brodsley, Rod Cavazos,
Richard Chang, G. Dan Covert, Claudia Dallendörfer, Joshua Distler,
Edward Fella, Mark Fox, David Lance Goines, Stefan Hattenbach, Eric
Heiman, Jim Parkinson, Rudy Vanderlans, John Hersey, Allistair Johnston,
Jeff Keedy, Max Kisman, Mike Kohnke, Joe Kral, Jean-Benoit Lévy,
Zuzana Licko, Peter Lofting, Joachim Müller-Lancé, Dennis
Pasco, Doug Raphael, Erik Spiekermann, Sumner Stone, Joe VanDerBos,
Mark Winn, Delve Withrington.
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