GitchHand
By day, Ken Gitschier is one of Monotype Imaging's in-house type designers, busy creating fonts for on-screen typography – a demanding undertaking that requires meticulously editing fonts on a pixel-by-pixel basis. His tools are Fontographer software, a Wacom digital tablet, a high-resolution monitor and a keen understanding of typographic forms. But by night, Gitschier uses the same tools to indulge his passion for experimental typeface designs.
GitchHand is one of Gitschier’s nocturnal projects. The design has an almost painterly quality. Depth, texture and even a sense of color are found in the lettershapes. Edgy, iconoclastic, and not for the typographically faint of heart, GitchHand makes a strong visual statement.
Arty
This face is best described as “energetic” perfect for distinctive display copy and memorable headlines. Arty combines cut-paper lettershapes with a hint of Ben Shahn’s poster lettering, resulting in a design that has both vigor and individuality. Included are a host of ligatures and alternate characters.
Barbara Mendelsohn designed Arty as part of an assignment to create a graphic identity for an ongoing lecture series at Stanford University. She began her design career in high school, while she was “ostensibly taking notes, but, in reality, creating elaborate doodles and alphabets in the margins of my notebooks,” she says. After a brief stint as a high school English teacher, Mendelsohn discovered the field of graphic design and the pleasures of making doodles for a living. Since that time, her work has won numerous illustration, design and typography awards.
Arty Package
Arty Condensed Package