Studio Size designed a visual identity for Web3 Tales, a conference by Alice In Blockchains featuring some of the world’s brightest minds in Web3. The goal was to create an identity that reflects the event’s forward-thinking nature and generates excitement. Our approach centered on motion design, seamlessly integrating it with the core branding elements. Inspired by UI elements and Web3 interactivity, we developed a look that is both futuristic and engaging.

The bold color palette is not just visually appealing but also symbolic of the vibrant and transformative nature of Web3 technology. For the event, we designed wayfinding signage, print materials, social media templates, keynotes, and fun giveaway items like wearables and stickers.

The Munken Creator is a web-based application for creating font animations in an experimental way.

With ‘Raising Questions’ and the Munken Sans font, the Swedish paper manufacturer Arctic Paper invites creators to playfully develop and experiment with typographic design in the Munken Creator. The typographic artworks created aim to inspire people to think beyond the boundaries of how we communicate.

Questions are the answers of our time. When asked correctly, they open the senses to new challenges. Because good questions are messages of change.

‘Raising Questions’ is an invitation to create visual messages using the newly developed Munken Creator Web-based animation application. Creators can then share them with a wide audience under the hashtag #munkencreator.

In 2020, Munken developed the font Munken Sans and shared it with the design community. Now new in 2022, Munken launches the Munken Creator, which is giving creators unimagined possibilities to develop and experiment with the font to create visually animated messages. These visuals can then be used for classic print or Web projects, with the animations directed or remixed in real time. Images and backgrounds can be combined with type editing in a nearly unlimited number of ways.

The creations from Munken Creator can be saved not only as images, but even as videos in WebM and MP4 formats and used in a variety of ways – from book projects to projections on house walls, there are almost no limits. The possibility to combine it with augmented reality allows the digital world to accentuate the tactile analogue experience.

For the launch of the Munken Creator, a large-format magazine will be published featuring artworks created using the Web-based application. With the augmented reality app Artivive, the digital level is combined with the magazine design to create new dimensions of perception.

The Munken Creator is developed by Creative Technologist Patrik Hübner in collaboration with JUNO.

The Munken Creator is a Web-based application for creating font animations in an experimental way.

Halyard Micro is the typeface of choice for Colourcode.

The Micro subfamily of Darden Studio’s Halyard is deceptively versatile. With its robust shapes and large apertures, text set in Halyard Micro is perfectly readable down to 4pt. The pinched shoulders and deep notches (also know as “ink traps” or “light wells”) make sure that joints stay crisp – in print as well as on screen. When used at small sizes it is designed to look to the human eye like how the Display and Text look at their intended sizes.

However, Halyard Micro is also designed to function as an eye-catching display face (that doesn’t blend in at all with its siblings) when used at larger sizes. That’s what Xinlei Qi, Jasmin Cziborra, and Elisabeth Scheer did when they designed the Colourcode website. The three Interaction Design students used Halyard Micro for everything from the logo to headlines, text, and user interface elements like input fields and buttons.

Colourcode aims to find out about the perceived properties of colors with the help of machine learning. By playing a game, visitors can contribute data which is used to train a neural network. The project is made at the Univer­sity of Design Schwä­bisch Gmünd, Germany.