Ahead of the imminent release of Issue 5 of Monotype’s magazine The Recorder, renowned book designer and typographer, David Pearson gives an interview about his approach to his work and relationship with type.
“We are increasingly being urged to create objects of desire and the cover obviously plays a key role here, especially when a book is aiming for pride of place in a bookshop.”
The cover of The Recorder issue 5, featuring typographic experiments by David Pearson. Pre-order the new issue.
Lackonic is a display stencil typeface with humanist proportions and medium weight, inspired by tubular shapes. It was primarily designed for Primavera’s Version 9 range of products, being used to set the products name within the suite.
It all started with the product symbol — 9 — which corresponds to the suite version. So why not drawing all other characters, based upon these shapes? That would give a higher sense of unity and of consistency among the different products in the suite.
That is how Lackonic was born.
“After many years of designing and publishing several typefaces and while focusing my work basically on contrasted designs (serif or sans-serif) due to the greater need in modern Greek typography, I decided to create a purely monolinear sans. I named it Messiniaka, in honor of my birthplace Messini in Peloponnese, and to draw it on, I relied on the proportions and aesthetics of my oldest font, Apollonia”.
– Takis Katsoulidis
Advertising agency Rethink worked with the RGD on an event theme and visual concept that would look just as fresh at the annual DesignThinkers Toronto conference (November 7 and 8, 2017) as it did on May 30 and 31 in Vancouver. The team came up with “Perspectives,” which nods not only to the varied speakers in the conference lineup, but to design itself.
As a brand-new event, the West Coast version had some additional requirements. “In the past, the RGD has promoted the conference mostly through posters mailed to members and previous attendees,” says Hans Thiessen, creative director at Rethink. “But there’s not many members here, so [the campaign] needed to be more social.”
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