About TypeMedia

Type and Media is a full-time one year master program in type design at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (KABK), NL. The first semester familiarizes the students with shaping letters in various media, from stone carving and calligraphy to vector graphics and code. In the second semester, students design and develop their own typeface project. This site showcases the final exam projects of the class of 2021.

We want to thank the department faculty, lecturers and workshop presenters during our year: Erik van Blokland, Marja van der Burgh, Paul van der Laan, Peter Verheul, Françoise Berserik, Just van Rossum, Peter Biľak, Petr van Blokland, Fred Smeijers, Tânia Raposo, Kristyan Sarkis, Ilya Ruderman, Frank Grießhammer, Aleksandra Samuļenkova, Minjoo Ham, Gen Ramirez, Zrinka Buljubašić, and the many people who took the time to join us online to give a talk and chat.

Website by Oleksandr Parkhomovskyy, Lukas Horn and Caterina Santullo. Desk photos by Sander Pedersen.

Set in CoFo Sans, generously donated and designed by Maria Doreuli of Contrast Foundry.

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Mobius

Mobius typeface covers basic editorial design needs. After experimenting a wide range of tools, the project started with a basic question in typography. How do you translate/interpret an analog operation - in this case the rotation of a flat tip - into a digital one? The process was infinite and generated an array of shapes from a Sans to a Dispaly Serif. Finally, through a drawings methodology based on the phenomenon of overlap in calligraphy, the project puts forward a Text Serif that attempts to crystallize a tension between a calligraphic gesture and a mechanical construction. An eventually good learning process.

Tanguy Vanlaeys

Tanguy Vanlaeys is a type designer based in Lyon, France. He first studied graphic design in Marseille, then initiated a study about engraving fonts with CNC machinery at ANRT, Nancy. One year later, he joined the TypeMedia master course to dive into all the type design aspect. Now he is dividing his time between a role as type designer with 205TF team, occasional teaching and his independent type design practice.

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Process