The Hotel der Sonnenhof is located in Bad Wörishofen, a spa town in Bavaria, Germany. Known for Sebastian Kneipp's water treatment method, the town attracted guests since the end of the 19th century and became officially a spa town in the 1920s. The Sonnenhof is awarded one of the 101 best hotels in Germany.

The website pairs Kontour’s Utile Display with Dubai, designed by Dr. Nadine Chahine, for continuous text and miscellaneous smaller size type applications.

Utile Display is a modulated sans that pays tribute to the contrast of thick and thin, feeling right at home in title compositions with tighter letter spacing and re-proportioned designs. The contrasted sans promotes a timeless elegance and lively aesthetic that comes especially to light in larger sizes.

Utile and Utile Narrow are part of the larger-scale typeface family Utile.

Marlide Display is prominently used for display sized type on the website of Jaclyn Carlson, a motherhood and parent coach, educator, and business mentor. Jaclyn Carlson “helps guide through the transformative journey of motherhood. She is a catalyst for change, believing in the power of laughter and meaningful experiences.”

The identity by Studio Wednesday appears to use Feature as the basis for Jaclyn Carlson’s all lowercase logo. In addition, the website uses TWK Lausanne for body text and Brandon Grotesque for navigational elements. The occasional handwritten words are rendered in Aesthetic Monoline.

SGD is the professional association and network of Swiss Graphic Designers. It’s the largest professional association of graphic designers in Switzerland. Founded in 1972, the trade union represents the interests of graphic designers and provides various professional member support. SGD also recommends curricula standards for vocational training to educate qualified visual communication professionals.

Axia, a sans serif uniwidth typeface composed of concise letterforms, is used throughout, together with Rekja.

KSP Productions is a full service production company that partners with brands and creative teams to produce photography and video content.

Their website uses Marlide Display for titles. It’s paired with Dunbar Text. The script used for the signature is Turbinado. The logotype appears to be custom.

Mystic Grits, A Southern Girl's Journey to Wisdom is a book written by Darelyn DJ Mitsch and published by Pyramis Press in 2009.

The Upright Italic and Ornaments styles of Odile are used throughout the book, and paired with the then freshly released Mrs Eaves XL Serif.

Odile is a text typeface, with bracketed top serifs and unbracketed bottom serifs in lowercase, a quality that counters the rigidness that most traditional slab serif typefaces possess. The design draws inspiration from an experimental typeface named Charter, originally designed by the American book and type designer William Addison Dwiggins.

Dwiggins contemplated Charter as the italic companion to Arcadia, Experimental No. 221. The Charter project progressed slowly, was put on pause during World War II and came to a halt in 1955. The typeface family remained incomplete and was never commercially released. Odile Upright Italic reveals visible similarities shared by Dwiggins’ Charter and defines the design approach for the family.

Marlide Display in use together with Mori for the Milan Music Week 2023. The annual event was established in 2017 by the city of Milan, Assomusica, FIMI, Nuovo Imaie, and SIAE to dedicate an entire week to music and its market. The logo appears to be based on Gotham.

For seven days a year Milan is transformed into a large stage that welcomes hundreds of artists involved in the musical panorama of the area, and who stage events in different locations offering activities of all kinds: from concerts to workshops, through presentations of records and books, films, meetings with artists, DJ sets, and much more.

Milano Music Week is an educational project that is aimed at fans, music enthusiasts, and industry professionals and those who aspire to become professionals. Over the years Milan Music Week has become a priority event for the entire Italian music scene and is eagerly awaited by the citizens of the city and the country.

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Planblue is building a global seafloor database with underwater satellites. Planblue is a spin-off company from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology (MPI-MM) in Bremen, Germany. With the support from the EXIST Start-up program and the accelerator Climate-KIC, Planblue was founded in 2017.

Axia, a sans serif uniwidth typeface composed of concise letterforms, is used throughout.

The Calendarbook 2013 is a mobile consisting of round disks, strung together with wrapped cotton thread. Each disk includes two months, one on either side. The calendar is stored in a white translucent paper envelope and fastened with a pin.

The calendar is designed and hand-made by Silvana Amato, Rome, Italy, and Angela Liguori, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, in collaboration with Marta B Dau. The illustrations, titled Men Diving into Time are by Steven Guarnaccia, Brooklyn, New York. Printed by Futura Graphica on Fedrigoni Old Mill white paper.

The calendar is type set in Cholla Slab a sub-family from the Cholla typeface family. Designed in 1998–99 by Sibylle Hagmann, it is named after a species of cactus indigenous to the Mojave Desert.

Park & Ride is an Austrian fusion / jazz funk band consisting of Pepi Abicht (trumpet+flugelhorn); Luis Abicht (trumpet+flugelhorn); Simone Beer (accordion), Silvio Sinzinger (guitar); Thomas Hierzberger (bass); Alex Klomfar (percussion); Paul Schneider (drums); and Otto Trapp (didgeridoo + muschelhorn). Their album Medaki was released in 2013 on Various Art Records.

Axia, a sans serif uniwidth typeface composed of concise letterforms, is used throughout. The biform use with uppercase glyphs that reach up to the x-height – as applied on the back of the CD cover sleeve – is a typographic customization.

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Innate offers ketamine therapy to treat adults and teens suffering from a variety of health conditions. Their identity (designer unknown) pairs two subfamilies of Kontour’s Utile collection.

Utile is an elegant and subtly flared sans serif, suited for continuous smaller sized text typography with superb legibility and optical balance in print and screen. Utile Display, the contrasted sans companion, promotes a timeless elegance and lively aesthetic that comes especially to light in larger sizes.

Chaotic yet Connected is a workbook with focus on various aspects of the design process and the many steps using print and press production methods to create physical outputs. It presents historical ways of graphic-industry manufacturing, together with contemporary methods of print-oriented creations designed with software and the computer. The workbook also includes chapters on basic typographic rules and terminology, grid structures, paper selection, folds, and binding processes. This project was designed under the guidance of Professor Joshua Unikel at the University of Houston.

The design uses Cholla Sans and Cholla Slab, two sub-families from the Cholla typeface family, with Helvetica for body text. Designed in 1998–99 by Sibylle Hagmann, Cholla is named after a species of cactus indigenous to the Mojave Desert.

These data visualization posters focus on the growing global issue of electronic waste. Using maps, charts, graphs and other visual elements, each poster individually provides a smaller narrative while working together to tell the collective story of e-waste and why it is such an issue. The first poster tackles the definition of e-waste, how much is being generated and by whom. The second poster zooms in, providing a glance how individuals contribute to e-waste and some of the impact this has on the environment.

The posters were made as a student project at the University of Houston. Axia by Kontour is used in several weights.

Café des Amis is a restaurant in the Wipkingen neighborhood of Zürich. The brand and identity is designed by Nora Alex Gerber.

Utile Display is used throughout the website. The contrasted sans promotes a timeless elegance and lively aesthetic that comes especially to light in larger sizes. Utile and Utile Narrow are part of the larger-scale typeface family Utile.

The logo pairs ITC Benguiat with the locally designed Carrosserie.

To celebrate the 100th anniversary, the Bern Railway Workers' Cooperative (EBG Bern) staged an open-air play in the summer of 2019. Written by Livia Anne Richard and loosely based on the novel Jesebel by Irène Némirovsky, the play Tüüfelskreis (“vicious circle”) brought the turbulent early days of the Weissensteingut in Bern, a settlement of railway-workers, back to life. The campaign for the theater performance was designed by Scarton Stingelin, Bern, Switzerland.

Axia, a sans serif uniwidth typeface composed of concise letterforms, is used throughout. The logo features a custom double umlaut.

For Benzin Young Swiss Graphic Design Michel Fries and Thomas Bruggisser voyaged through Switzerland in search of a new generation of young Swiss graphic designers. What they find is a Swiss design scene as "hip" as anything in London or Berlin. Influenced by the famous "Swiss School" of the 1950s and 60s, young Swiss designers still hold concept and structure as functional beliefs, allowing artistic freedom in counterbalance to the service aspects of design.

The identity uses Cholla Slab, a sub-family from the Cholla typeface family. Designed in 1998–99 by Sibylle Hagmann, it is named after a species of cactus indigenous to the Mojave Desert. The capital B on the jacket, the stacked letters “BENZIN” on the spine, and the page numbers are set in Macaroni Medium, an unreleased typeface designed by Bastien Aubry.

This notebook-sized catalog, published on the occasion of the exhibition La SIP, du microscope à la machine-outil held at the Musée d’histoire des sciences in 2006, sets out to illustrate the astonishing industrial epic of the Société Genevoise d'instruments de physique (SIP), from its creation in 1862 until the 1950s through a number of emblematic objects of the exhibition.

Designer Mathieu Christe chose Jigsaw Stencil (designed by Johanna Biľak) for headlines, and paired it with body text set in Odile by Sibylle Hagmann. See a previous post by Kontour for an extensive description of Odile’s history and design traits.

The organization SGD, Swiss Graphic Designers (professional association of Swiss graphic designers) launched a campaign under the motto "Be a style guide" and accompanying hashtag #lifeasagraphicdesigner during the Interaction Design Lab in Bern, 2021. The intended audience are design studios and agencies that offer in-house apprentice programs. The campaign was designed by Scarton Stingelin and contains various media outlets such as a website, social media posts, flyers, and posters.

Axia is a sans serif uniwidth typeface composed of concise letterforms. All of the widths of the roman and italic weights harmonize perfectly with one another without changing the line length. Text set in Light or Black results in the same, economical copyfit.

The Phillips Collection was founded by art collector and philanthropist Duncan Phillips in 1921. The Phillips Collection has been collecting modern and contemporary art for one hundred years. Duncan Phillips’s former home – and additions to it – in Washington’s historic Dupont Circle neighborhood provides a unique setting for the growing collection of over 5,000 works. Following Phillips’s unconventional approach to exhibitions, The Phillips Collection galleries are frequently rearranged to facilitate new conversations between artworks and fresh experiences for visitors.

The Collection website was designed under direction of Vivian Djen – Head of Editorial and Design at The Phillips Collection. The typography primary uses Elido, a humanist sans serif type family with a wide range of variations for editorial use. The tag line of the logo is set in Odile (Elido in reverse) – the serif companion of Elido. The design concept for the sans/serif superfamily draws inspiration from an experimental typeface named Charter, originally designed by the American book and type designer William Addison Dwiggins.

The Gap has been Austria's leading medium for creative life and pop culture since 1997 – independently, in print and online. Published monthly, reviewing Austrian culture within an international context. Thematics include music, film, cinema, fashion, IT, science, politics, graphic design, art, culture, mobility, games, comics, literature, and more. Shown here are images from a few editions from 2008.

Odile is a text typeface, with bracketed top serifs and unbracketed bottom serifs in lowercase, a quality that counters the rigidness that most traditional slab serif typefaces possess. The design draws inspiration from an experimental typeface named Charter, originally designed by the American book and type designer William Addison Dwiggins.

Dwiggins contemplated Charter as the italic companion to Arcadia, Experimental No. 221. The Charter project progressed slowly, was put on pause during World War II and came to a halt in 1955. The typeface family remained incomplete and was never commercially released. Odile Upright Italic reveals visible similarities shared by Dwiggins’ Charter and defines the design approach for the family.

The accompanying sans serif is Flama from Feliciano Type.

From the Fleet Clubs' website:

Fleet Clubs are a national collection of boutique flying memberships offering shared private VIP airliner service. Designed as a country club in the sky for private flyers seeking a more environmentally responsible, reliable and sensibly priced way to travel between their vacation homes.

Utile Display is a modulated sans that pays tribute to the contrast of thick and thin, feeling right at home in title compositions with tighter letter spacing and re-proportioned designs. The contrasted sans promotes a timeless elegance and lively aesthetic that comes especially to light in larger sizes. It here is supported by Work Sans.

Utile and Utile Narrow are part of the larger-scale typeface family Utile.