Marcin Antique & Typewriter Specimens
Brief
Design the type specimen for the latest release by Mario Feliciano of Feliciano Type Foundry, Marcin Antique & Typewriter.
The typeface is a contemporary revival of an early grotesque by the Mayeur type foundry at the turn of the XXth century.
Solution
Like Feliciano’s revival, the specimens are a play on their origin: they’re abstractions of metal type and typewriter balls, brought back to life as new forms.
Reticulation—a photographic technique that now hardly happens in photography in its original form—is also abstracted as a vector form: another appropriation of a past form for graphic impact.
Client ................ Feliciano Type Foundry
Field ................. Print
Published ............. December 2017
Studio ................ Self
Typefaces ............. Marcin Antique, Marcin Typewriter
Design the type specimen for the latest release by Mario Feliciano of Feliciano Type Foundry, Marcin Antique & Typewriter.
The typeface is a contemporary revival of an early grotesque by the Mayeur type foundry at the turn of the XXth century.
Solution
Like Feliciano’s revival, the specimens are a play on their origin: they’re abstractions of metal type and typewriter balls, brought back to life as new forms.
Reticulation—a photographic technique that now hardly happens in photography in its original form—is also abstracted as a vector form: another appropriation of a past form for graphic impact.
Client ................ Feliciano Type Foundry
Field ................. Print
Published ............. December 2017
Studio ................ Self
Typefaces ............. Marcin Antique, Marcin Typewriter
