Font Design

Explore 3 award-winning designs tagged Font Design on Magazine of Design.

Designer / Brand: Guanglong Chen Work: Font Design Tag: Graphic

Chinese Zodiac

The fusion of the twelve Chinese zodiac signs and the art of seal script. The twelve Chinese zodiac signs are Chinese culture. They are the zodiac signs of the year a person is born in. They have rich historical legends and image philosophy of cultural significance. Seal script is a style of ancient calligraphy fonts. The author combines historical culture, image philosophy, and seal script style into new graphic designs. They show not only graphic design, but also a manifestation of culture. The author wants to let the world know about China's history and culture through them.

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Designer / Brand: Junheng Li Work: Font Design Tag: Graphic

Reincarnation Of Text

Text of Cycle is a typeface design that explores the relationship between people and artificial intelligence. The concept proposes that people created artificial intelligence, and that artificial intelligence may in turn create people, making words the link between both. The letterforms follow a method of deconstruction, combining shapes taken from science fiction films and modern machinery. Each character was modelled in Rhinoceros 7 and rendered in KeyShot 8. The result reflects the cycle of language and knowledge.

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Designer / Brand: Sunghoon Kim Work: Font Design Tag: Graphic

87MM Ilsang

The font of 87MM Ilsang is designed with consideration for the daily value pursued by the 87MM brand. The oblique font in Korean is the first font to be attempted in Korea. By interpreting the numbers 8 and 7 as the ratio and angle of the font, the area of the letters was designed as a space of 8:7, and the size of the closed letters among the consonants of Hangeul (Korean Alphabet) was adjusted using this ratio. The 8 and 7 degrees angles were used as morphological elements such as a stem and a conclusion to harmonize the characteristics of handwriting that appear when writing sideways.

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