Ryo Sekino 関野亮 and Yuko Sekino 関野ゆうこ are handmade glass artists based in Tamba-Sasayama, Japan who apply classical glass-making techniques in modern vessel designs. Mazzybox of Studio NA,EO in Beijing designed posters for an exhibition featuring their work that primarily uses a combination of Ogg and Kozuka Mincho [It’s Adobe Song, see comments], with old style numerals from Leonardo Fascia. In an interview with Mazzybox, she was seeking a typeface that reflected the same harmony between the classical and modern in Sekino’s works.

“I choose Ogg as the main font in the poster because it keeps the classical aesthetics of serifs, while retaining the modernity of visual representations. I appreciate Ogg’s delicate serifs and handling of thin lines — it is no doubt a distinguishing typeface and it fits perfectly for the theme of this exhibition,” Mazzybox said.

Exploring traditional notions of portraiture through a contemporary lens, Looking at You (spring 2019) exhibited paintings by Rebecca Harper, Ross Head, Anna Ilsley, Igor Moritz and Janet Sainsbury. Curated by Charlotte Flint and produced by arts collective, Gedney Common, the show presented bodies shrouded in raucous colour, abstracted and amorphous, playful and life-like; celebrating the figure in a myriad of ways.

The type-led identity paired a highly elegant display cut of Leonardo Fascia by Quentin Schmerber with a light and spacious cut of Thomas Huot-Marchand’s chiseled Minérale. The oversized interplay between the alternating artist names and show titles formed a theme across event promotion, signage and printed information in the space, with an electric blue running as a visual thread throughout.