Search Results: Typo Tour

This series is gradually growing into a kind of typographic world tour. During the past year or so, we have interviewed designers from Sweden to Thailand, from Brazil to Siberia, from Chattanooga to Japan. This month’s interview takes us to Ukraine — not its capital Kiev (or Kyiv, as Ukrainians prefer to transcribe their cyrillic spelling), but a pleasant southern town on the Sea of Azov. Here, in Berdyansk, is the seat of AndrijType, one of several likable Eastern European font foundries that have joined MyFonts in the past few years. Its one-man typeface library successfully blends Ukrainian-flavored sensibilities with universal typographic common sense. Meet designer Andrij Shevchenko, coming in from the cold.

He’s one of those designers who live and breathe letterforms, whose hand-lettered titles and brand names look as if they’ve always been there. Based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Mark Simonson worked as an art director and lettering artist for many years before being able to fulfill a lifelong dream: to become a full-time type designer. Having started out in the pen-and-ink, cut-and-paste era, he has made the transition to digital design with flying colors. Meet Mark Simonson, a contemporary craftsman.