font_designer: Max Kisman

Pacific Standard

Pacific Standard font

The Pacific Standard Bold was originally designed as a – capital only – poster typeface for a poster for the 30th International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2001 in the Netherlands. Theme of the festival...

Bfrika

Bfrika font

Bfrika is an ‘Africa inspired’ typeface and a contribution for the typographic issue ‘National Typographica’ of I-Juici Magazine, in South Africa. This geometrical decorative design represents bold simplicity, directness and rythm. The name evolved…

Cattlebrand

Cattlebrand font

Based on sketches of an alphabet from examples of South Western cattle brand marks. I always liked the idea of these brands for a font. A few years later a basic font – just...

Chip

Chip font

Chip 01 was originally designed for a high tech transparent anniversary telephone card, to give this card its own identity with a slight technological reference. Chip 02 is an adapted version with slightly increased...

Interlace

Interlace font

Designed inspired by video technology and meant for the use on television, but never really made it there. Yet…

Bebedot

Bebedot font

Bebedot originated from doodles and scrabbles in notebooks; irregular forms very well might contain a style for an alphabet. Once used for an intro spread in Wired magazine (#6.04, April 1998): “To keep up...

Zwart

Zwart font

Originally created with cutting in red litho film, as a headlining typeface for Vinyl music magazine. Its geometric structure was very applicable for early type design experiments on the computer. …in the early 1980s,...

Quickstep

Quickstep font

The Quickstep Bold, a ‘quick’ font, originally made for the 25th anniversary of SSP Printing Co. in Amsterdam. First used for an intro spread of a Brian Eno quote in Wired Magazine (#3.05, May...

Quickstep Sans

Quickstep Sans font

A ‘quick’ font, originally made for the 25th anniversary of SSP Printing Co. in Amsterdam. First used for an intro spread in Wired Magazine (#3.05, May 1995): “The problem with computers is that they...

Traveller

Traveller font

A geometric design, published in Rick Poynor’s Typography Now 1 (Booth-Clibborn Editions, London UK,1991). Discussing these kinds of angular styles, the critic Rick Poynor noted that “fate has overtaken the angular post-constructivist type design...