![]() ![]() He is an author of cyrillic versions of such typeface as Lava, Graphik, Neutraface and others, that was made for such studios as Typotheque, Commercial Type, Typonine and House Industries. After graduation he was a tutor of Type&Typography course at British Higher School of Art and Design, Moscow (2008-2015), was an art-director of information agency RIA Novosti. Later Ilya Ruderman graduated from Type & Media (Royal Academy of Art), the Hague, the Netherlands. Graduated from Moscow State University of Print (Graphic Design Department), where they took Alexander Tarbeev’s classes. Founders of CSTM Fonts (2014) type foundry and a new font distributor type.today (2016). They are both graphic and type designers. Ilya Ruderman and Yury Ostromentsky (CSTM Fonts) Typefaces by Christian Schwartz: FF Bau, Farnham, Graphik, Guardian, Neue Haas Grotesk, Kommissar, Neutraface, Produkt, Stag Also in 2007 Schwartz was awarded the prestigious Prix Charles Peignot, given to designers under 35 years of age for “outstanding contributions to type design.” He has been on the short list of the Museum of Design, in London, as Designer of the Year and was rated among the top 40 most influential designers under 40 years of age by Wallpaper* and on Time’s list of top 100 designers. The studio’s projects include typefaces for The Guardian, Esquire, T (The New York Times Style Magazine), the Empire State Building and Sprint. In 2007, he and London designer Paul Barnes founded Commercial Type. ![]() After returning to the United States, he worked at type studio Font Bureau, going independent in 2001. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa., he worked for a time at MetaDesign in Berlin. Special thanks to Lasha Giorgadze, the Georgian brand typography professional, and to Akaki Razmadze, who designed Georgian for Helvetica, FF Meta, and FF Sabon.Ĭhristian Schwartz, a type designer and one of the founders of the type foundry Commercial Type, lives and works in New York. Graphik Georgian was designed by Yury Ostromentsky, with native consultation from Alexander Sukiasov, a Tbilisi-based graphic and type designer, one half of Ten Waffle Studio. Importantly, the Mtavruli glyphs are to be found in their legitimate Unicode positions (Mtavruli has been added in Unicode 11.0). Also present: archaic glyphs, no longer in use in modern-day Georgian language, letters of Svan, Mingrel, and Laz languages. This helps to compensate the tall ascenders and descenders, which are natural to Georgian type. ![]() Graphik Georgian features lower x-height and lower-hanging descenders, compared to Latin letterforms. By the way, this very text is set in Graphik. The Cyrillic extension was designed by Ilya Ruderman (CSTM Fonts) in 2015. Graphik was released as a retail font in 2009. The typeface is available in weights with corresponding italics, each with five sets of figures.įirst drawn as the house style for Schwartzco Inc., it was further developed for Condé Nast Portfolio and later for Wallpaper* and T, the New York Times Style Magazine. It is suitable for display purposes as well as for text sizes, captions and for such specific tasks as navigation systems and map-making. The low contrast and large x-height give the typeface great versatility. The lighter weights of Graphik were influenced by Neuzeit Grotesk, Folio, Recta, and Maxima, while the heavier ones descend from Plak, a wood display typeface, designed by Paul Renner in 1920s. While many of these designs were dominated by the three iconic sans serifs from Europe: Helvetica, Univers, and Futura, Schwartz was drawn to the “B-list” of sans serifs. This stems from his early exposure to Modernist graphic design, particularly posters, from the mid-twentieth century. The inspiration for Graphik came from designer Christian Schwartz’s longstanding interest in the expressive possibilities found in plain typefaces. ![]() Its purposeful, elegant plainness allows it to move effortlessly between being a central design element or playing a supporting role in a wide range of projects and applications Designed to be a blank slate, Graphik is a “vanilla-flavored” typeface that is perfectly suited for whatever style of expression is needed. ![]()
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