2008 Foundries Added
 Foundry Release
Paragraph
March 2008
Paragraph is a foundry of Jan Schmoeger, a Czech-born Australian designer. Jan has been fascinated by fonts since his childhood in Prague. having spent most of his working life as a graphic/book designer and a part-time lecturer at a Melbourne university, he now plans to divide his time between typography and sailing.
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 Foundry Release
Just Another Foundry
March 2008
Tim Ahrens has studied architecture at the University of Karlsruhe and Typeface Design in Reading. He works as a type designer and architect. In 2000 Linotype published his sans serif text face Aroma. In 2005 he founded Just Another Foundry, which distributes his display faces Mashine and Zalamander, the sans serif Facit and Lapture, a revival and redesign of Albert Kapr’s Leipziger Antiqua.
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 Foundry Release
Lebbad Design
March 2008
Jim Lebbad is a graphic designer specializing in typographic design and handlettering. He has created award-winning designs for domestic and international clients including Arista Records, Nickelodeon, Campbell Soup Company and Simon & Schuster Publishing, to name a few. Upon graduating from Kutztown University, Jim headed straight to New York where he started his career at New American Library as a book cover designer. While at NAL, Jim's handlettering skills won awards from the Type Directors Club. He then moved on to Berkley Putnam Publishing where he was named Art Director. While there, his art direction on numerous covers won awards from the Society of Illustrators. Jim created Lebbad Design in 1981 and continues creating work for a variety of clients both large and small.
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 Foundry Release
The Northern Block
March 2008
Jonathan Hill graduated from Newcastle College of Art & Design in 1994. He initially worked in print producing event graphics for the Leadmill in Sheffield. Jonathan joined Mainartery in 1999; a progressive design studio based in London working solely for the music industry. Over a 3-year period Jonathan produced a range of unique packaging that crossed boundaries between 2D and 3D media. Clients include R02, Universal Music, EMI and Azuli Records. In January 2006 he set up his own studio under the banner The Northern Block to concentrate on the development of new and original typefaces.
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Arabetics
March 2008
Established in 2004, Arabetics is a small foundry specializing primarily in the design of simplified, non-traditional, Arabetic (extended Arabic) fonts. It was founded by type designer Saad D. Abulhab to produce fonts based on his Mutamathil Type Style design model which is intended for the creation of generic, compact, non calligraphic fonts.
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 Foundry Release
Virus
February 2008
Working together for the last six years the now infamous team of Jonathan Barnbrook and Marcus McCallion has produced an extraordinary range of typefaces. Greatly influenced by particular cultural or sociopolitical projects, the various typefaces continually strive to introduce alternative yet historically informed designs. Elegant and beautifully presented, the Virus collection brings many of these unusual, sometimes disturbing, typefaces together for the first time.
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