An early use of Charlottenburg in a music video for the French fashion web magazine Jamais le Mardi. The video promotes the launch of the magazine at a clubbing party at Le Sucre in Lyon. Studio Béguin made use of the Compressed, Circles, and Choices styles of Charlottenburg.

More images and insight can be found on the design studio’s Behance page.

Director: Marty Pourcent
Art direction and production: Studio Béguin
Stylist: Zero Katre
Photographers: Clement Sanna and Briac Durand

Poster, title and credits for Queendom, a powerful documentary directed by Agniia Galdanova (Sundance and IDFA-supported director), with Gena Marvin and produced by Igor Myakotin. Design by République Studio.

Gena, a queer artist from a small town in Russia, dresses in otherworldly costumes made from junk and tape, and protests the government on the streets of Moscow. She stages radical performances in public that become a new form of art and activism - and put her life in danger.

The film had its world premiere at SXSW, Austin (TX) in March 2023.

The title design of the movie is based on Radiant Extra Condensed, redrawn by Mael Sinic with help from Noël Leu. The credits are set in Neuf (Velvele) and the billing block of the posters use Univers Next Compressed.

[More info on IMDb]

Intro sequence and end credits for the Netflix stop-motion anthology The House. The intro sequence was directed by Nicolas Ménard and Manshen Lo. The typeface in use is Fermín Guerrero’s Brick Display (credits) and Brick Text (title), a type family based on “old Brick Lane pub signage”, that felt fitting to introduce a world inspired by England.

For more info, read an in-depth article by It’s Nice That.

Matthew Carter’s Shelley Script on the cover of a paperback edition of The Master and Margarita, published by Grove Press in the early 1990s, in Mirra Ginsburg’s translation from 1967. From Wikipedia:

The Master and Margarita (Russian: Мастер и Маргарита) is a novel by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940 during Stalin’s regime. A censored version was published in Moscow magazine in 1966–1967, after the writer's death. The manuscript was not published as a book until 1967, in Paris. A samizdat version circulated that included parts cut out by official censors, and these were incorporated in a 1969 version published in Frankfurt. The novel has since been published in several languages and editions.

Shelley Script (1972) is based on the calligraphy of early eighteenth century English writing master George Shelley. It comes in three degrees of flourish; Adagio, Vivace, and Presto; this being Presto, with the curls on the swash cap M nicely echoing the cat’s tongue. While previous releases had three separate styles, Linotype’s OpenType version merges them into one font, with “Presto” made available via the Swash feature. Fun fact: The roman is another revival made by Carter in the 1970s: Cochin goes back to a design by Peignot & Fils from 1914. Carter reworked it at Linotype in 1977.

The cover was designed by Krystyna Skalski, with an illustration by Robert Goldstrom. The exact date is unclear to me. Cooper Hewitt dates it to 1991. The back cover suggests a printing date in 1992.

This script on this cover designed by Louise Fili’s studio is calligraphy or lettering, not type. There are many fonts in this English copperplate style — Novia probably comes closest — but none that match these letterforms, which are each purposefully distinct from one another. (Note, for instance, that each ‘S’ has its own swash.) The sans serif is Bernhard Gothic, a classic choice for formal or “stylish” material from nearly a century ago — perhaps an ironic wink at the fact that this book is about contemporary writing.

The first line from Homer’s Odyssey, where he prays for his muse to speak through him so he can tell the tale of Odysseus’s journey. Created using various calligraphy techniques. The print itself is richly screen printed in midnight blue onto very thick Mirri gold stock. You can purchase it from The Tinder and Sparks shop.

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Sing-in-Me-Muse/2566587