Letters for the future: Ten years of the Gerard Unger Scholarship
€20.00
This beautifully designed book traces ten years of the Gerard Unger Scholarship, created to help emerging type designers bring their typefaces to professional completion and publication, while documenting its history, presenting the resulting typefaces, and sharing conversations with the scholarship recipients.
Named after one of the alchemists and godfathers of type design, Dr. Gerard Unger (1942–2018), the scholarship celebrates the melding of creativity and functionality. It shows how a positive outlook can impact an entire design category, raising its overall value globally, and setting the bar for future design work primarily committed to serving and benefiting others. It recognises the value of progressing together toward an interconnected and cosmopolitan future driven by fearless innovation, deep research, aesthetic beauty, and steadfast goodwill.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Celebrating creativity
A decade of type design mentorship
Roxane Gataud: Bely goes its own way
Juan Bruce: A contribution beyond typography
Quentin Schmerber: Curious about many things
Bogidar Mascareñas: Exploration of shifted meeting points
Florian Fecher: A typeface meant for reading
Anya Danilova: A tool for voices that should be heard
Nina Faulhaber: Parallels between sculpture and type
Emma Marichal: Paying tribute to the diversity of forms
Patrycja Walczak: A meaningful part of a larger story
Anne-Dauphine Borione: Type is a powerful source of magic
Meriting a Mention
Dr. Gerard Unger: A type legend
- Team
- Josh Farmer, José Scaglione, Veronika Burian, Linda Kudrnovská
- Title
Letters for the future: Ten years of the Gerard Unger Scholarship
- Editor
- Linda Kudrnovská
- Design
- Tereza Bettinardi
- Published by
TypeTogether
- Supported by
The Sensei Language and Typography Lab
www.senseilab.org- No. of pages
72 full colour, plus dust jacket poster
- Sized
240 × 330 mm
- Featured typefaces
Aeroplan, Aneto, Belarius, Bely, Dargon, Laima, Lektorat, Noort, Ploquine, Poltik, Rezak, and Temeraire
- Paper
Fedrigoni Arena Rough 100 gsm, 120 gsm, and 300 gsm
- Year
2024
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