Eight designers present a set of icons that indicate the fun and fantastic world of signage. Each collaborator’s solution represents a completely different interpretations on signage vernacular. Akira Kobayashi’s “Subsumption”, obscured by foliage…
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The award-winning Conrad was created by Japanese type designer Akira Kobayashi. Its design was based on the fifteenth-century type by Conrad Sweynheym and Arnold Pannartz, two German printers active in Rome at that time....
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For people who know my type design work, Lithium may appear as one of my more unusual typefaces. This was my intention, as it was inspired out of another type design experience, but needs...
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Calcite Pro is a contemporary sans serif italic typeface designed by Japanese type designer Akira Kobayashi. Although it derives its basic character from the italic scripts of the Italian Renaissance, Kobayashi has utilized a...