font_designer: Wayne Thompson

The name Otis arose from an incident in a shopping mall in which, realising my shoelace was undone while on an escalator, I bent down to tie it, became aware of the approaching end,...

Influenced heavily by the work of Erik Spiekerman, Axiom came out of a desire to capture Spiekerman’s simplicity and elegant style. Axiom seems to work well when extended.

Excessive photocopying, with extreme enlargements and reductions to magnify the imperfections, helped to rough the edges and give Not Sassure a non-digital quality.

A funky, lively display font originally designed for a tourism publication.