Thames Capsule Font Project is published through a web page specimen, featuring selected text samples, history details and narrative images with the intent to build an atmosphere around the typeface.
Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view.Our digital process of the Doves letterpresses restoration and interpretation enhance the original Art & Craft qualities of the font, the richness of curves and the humanistic based shapes. We made place for interpretation, merging wood-cut like details that match with the intentions we alleged to Emery Walker.
The Doves Press was a private printing presses operating at the start of the 20th Century, established by TJ Cobden-Sanderson, with Emery Walker joining later as partner. By 1909 Cobden-Sanderson and Walker were at the height of a protracted and bitter dispute involving the rights to the Doves type in the dissolution of their partnership. All rights to the Doves type were to pass to Emery Walker upon the death of Cobden-Sanderson. Yet, when the press closed in 1916 Cobden-Sanderson threw the type along with its punches and matrices into the Thames. Doves type letterpresses have been discovered in the River Thames in 2014. Designer Robert Green is the person who searched for and retrieved the original metal Doves letterpress from the Thames. His great archeological and historical work brought to light Doves typographic heritage (dovestype.com).Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view.Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view.
Cherchez la femme / Search For The Woman, Luc Chessex
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Dadabot
Nicolas Nova, Joël Vacheron
Editorial concept
Nicolas Nova, Joël Vacheron, Raphaël Verona
Design and Typesetting
Studio This is not / Faure & Verona
Typefaces
Clarendon Graphic, François Rappo, Optimo
Plain, François Rappo, Optimo
Millionaire, Raphaël Verona
Printing
Musumeci Spa
Quart, Aosta, Italia
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Art direction and design for a new London based clothes brand. In collaboration with Guillaume Peitrequin.
The Visual Identity is based on ThreeThousand, a new “retro-futuristic” typeface that was designed for the brand.
Design of the new book that presents the Foundation Year programme, in collaboration with Gaël Faure
Client: ECAL / Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne, 2016
Font in use: Thames Capsule
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Project initiated at ECAL in 2009 (Bachelor Diploma project). Study and Interpretation of engraving letters / Latines Françaises with the aim of producing a contemporary type design
Image: Freaks Exhibition catalogue designed in 2012 for the Musée de l'Elysée Lausanne and IDPURE Magazine issue 38
Font in use: Celstine Regular and Celstine Hairline
Millionaire is based on George Bickham the Elder calligraphy, merged with transitional upper-case letters. The project was initiated for a commissioned watch design series for Swatch. Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view.
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