A bespoke set of signs designed by me, Issac Scott, to greet and direct guests at Alexandra and Lucas’ wedding, held at the new home of highly regarded Portland, Oregon, architect Sid Scott.

Drawing on the couple’s theme of ‘rustic modern’, the elegant primary typeface – Chiswick Sans in several of its optical sizes – pairs with a geometric sans serif, LL Brown. Botanic illustrations brought the surrounding English garden inside, further emphasizing the architect's vision of connecting interior and exterior.

Yoisho has been around for quite sometime but this time the Jakarta based restaurant will be rebooted with fresh new direction. Along with that of course a logo redesign is needed but we think to refresh a concept means to really take another look at how the brand is communicated.

It is important to note the location of the restaurant and the people who frequent this area.
The Senopati neighbourhood itself is proximate to the business district but the low-rise buildings lend a laidback vibe to the area. It’s equal parts stylish and casual.

There has always been generalization of how Asian food is represented. But Yoisho is not a traditional joint, it's focusing more on fusion food that emphasizes on exploration of taste and ingredients. Since we are more on the contemporary side, we want to avoid that sort of stereotyping by developing visuals that responds well to the expectations of Senopati’s crowds.

Sharp Grotesk is the main typeface, used in two weights. The logo uses Chiswick Sans.

YODO (#YouOnlyDesignOnce) is a column devoted to graphic design, published every month in IL magazine. IL is designed and art directed by Francesco Franchi. The headline is set in a different typeface each time the column appears. Frauen Script, designed by Lucas Sharp for Incubator, was used in issue no.75 of IL magazine, November 2015.

The text combines several styles of Euclid Flex (Swiss Typefaces) and Tiempos, with Founders Grotesk Text (both by Klim) used for captions. Shown below are clippings of the headers from IL no.64 (October 2014) to no.77 (January 2016). You can see full images of all of the YODO columns here: francescofranchi.com/youonlydesignonce

Mallory Black Italic (Frere-Jones Type)

Tesla Slab Caps C (Typonine)

Frauen Script (Incubator)

Eksell Display (Letters from Sweden)

Blanche (mediumextrabold)

Retiro (Typofonderie)

Le Colonel (ECAL Typefaces)

Basis Grotesque (Colophon)

Robinson (Commercial Type)

Manuka Ultra (Klim, custom)

GT Haptik (Grilli Type)

Algebra (Commercial Type)

Chiswick Sans High (Commercial Type)

Parmigiano (Typotheque)

Gandur Alte Halbfett (Blackletra)

The yet-to-be-released Chiswick Sans High Italic by Paul Barnes (Commercial Type) is used prominently by David Pearson in a cover design for Penguin Classics, with art direction by Jim Stoddart. The book will be published later this month.