ISIA Type Week is an intensive course in type design led by Fred Smeijers and held at the Higher Institute for Applied Arts in Urbino, Italy. The 8-day course will run from 23 July to 1 August. It includes contributions by visiting tutors Eric Kindel, Riccardo Olocco and Luciano Perondi and is coordinated by ISIA lecturer Roberto Arista.

The dedicated website pairs two-color illustrations with Puncho and Monitor, both designed by Smeijers. Announcement graphics used on social media additionally feature letterforms from the Bery series, a triplet of fonts based on the works of the late 18th-century Parisian stencil cutter Jean Gabriel Bery.

This site addresses complex issues related to Tibet, Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama as well as Buddhism in general.

The general typface for the site is OurType’s Meran and FF Dax. The typeface of the logo is Roboto. Since the vast majority of academic writing that uses Sanskrit is conducted in transliteration, another typeface, FF Fago, is used for those articles and is paired with OurType’s Fresco.

There is also a microsite that introduces a “lost dialogue” between Tibetan Buddhism, the XIVth Dalai Lama and modern art, together with an interview by Louwrien Wijers with the Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso. This microsite uses Monitor and pairs it with Tiina for headers.

In 2005, the Berliner Kammeroper staged Briefe des van Gogh (The Letters of Van Gogh). This mono-opera by the Russian composer Grigory Frid (1915–2012) is based on the letters that Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo.

Fernkopie designed a poster with an exhilarating chromatic tension, starring the energetic Prensa Bold Italic by Cyrus Highsmith. In other roles: Versa’s small caps and Monitor’s caps, both from OurType.