Silver Graphic · 2022
Type Specimen Alskar Typeface
by Paul Robb and Moira Bartoloni
- Silver A' Design Award 2022 in Graphic
- CLIENT: S6 Foundry
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 43,000
- Verification code E2805DAE65 · Verify this award
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About Type Specimen Alskar Typeface
Alskar sans is an elegant contemporary wide sans serif typeface with strong stylistic geometric authentic contrasts, drawing on the aesthetics and representing the shifting contemporary aesthetics. The type specimen was printed as a newspaper A2 (folded and sent as A4) and presents the typeface with a modern feel and experience.
About the Silver A' Design Award
Type Specimen Alskar Typeface is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Type Specimen Alskar Typeface is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Type Specimen Alskar Typeface is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Alskar sans is an elegant contemporary wide sans serif typeface with strong stylistic geometric authentic contrasts, drawing on the aesthetics and representing the shifting contemporary aesthetics. The type specimen was printed as a newspaper A2 (folded and sent as A$) and presents the type face with a modern feel and experience.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The project was designed in A2 spreads, folded to A4
- Tags
- Font design, Branding, Identity, Type design
- Production Technology
- The final specimen was printed on newspaper stock in CMYK
- Design Challenge
- The challenge was to interpret mainly an architectural movements and design a typeface that would visually feel correct within that genre.
- Research
- We researched the Brutalist movement in both architectural and visual arts.
- Inspiration
- The inspiration for the typeface was to design a character set with a contemporary feel with a strong aesthetic feel of the Brutalist movement. The idea was to develop a versatile font that would give the right visual consistencies to brand ranging from high fashion to artistic communications
- Project Duration
- The type face was developed from September 2021 and release January 2022.
- Operation Flow
- The specimen was sent to existing and potential design customers.
- Image Credits
- Paul Henry Robb
