a Riccardo Garrone
che amo
e sostenne
questo teatro

to Riccardo Garrone
that I love
and who supported
this theater

A commemorative metal plate for actor Riccardo Garrone (1926–2016). The aluminium plate was installed late 2018 in the foyer of the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa.

The text is set in Type By’s Couteau; its letterforms were milled with CNC-machinery.

Type By’s Couteau in use for the printed 16-page program for Spike Island Open, the annual “open weekend of inspirations and conversations, questions, provocations and delights” taking place in the Spike Island building, Bristol. Inside the program, Couteau is paired with Lineto’s LL Brown.

Once a year everyone in the Spike Island community comes together to showcase the breadth and diversity of the activity that takes place here. The weekend offers visitors not only the opportunity to explore parts of the 80,000 sq ft former Brooke Bond tea packing factory that are not normally accessible to the public, but to meet the people who work here and to get involved themselves.—Spike Island

Both typefaces where also used for the signage of the event. Next to the prominently word “OPEN” on the window front, Couteau was also used for the wayfinding inside Spike Island.

Between Writing & Type: the Stencil Letter is an exhibition of stencil letters from the 18th century to the present day. Assembled by Eric Kindel and Fred Smeijers, the exhibition will feature a rich selection of stencil letters in the context of artefacts, documents and ephemera, including stencil plates and stencilling devices, specimens and catalogues, patent inventions and much more. Accompaining the exhibition will be a series of new stencil fonts designed by Maurice Göldner, Pierre Pané-Farré and Fred Smeijers are published by OurType.