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Desmond Wong
Desmond Wong studied at The Cooper Union (2011) and at Pratt Institute (2009-2013) before setting up shop in New York City. He designed some typefaces such as Mandelbrot (a Type@Cooper fractal emulation project from 2011 named after Benoit Mandelbrot), Bema (2013, a reinterpretation of a typeface originally created by Michael Freiburger, Martin Kranz, and Ulrich Gering for the first Bible printed in France---designed during Jesse Ragan's typeface design class at Pratt Institute), OM Steiner (designed at Other Means with direction from Gary Fogelson, Phil Lubliner, Ryan Waller and Vance Wellenstein for Yeasayer's Fragrant World), Export (2012, for Jesse Ragan), Vogue Sans (2013, a class project done with Kathleen Creighton), and four typefaces crated for his senior thesis project in 2013 jointly with Frank DeRose and Brendan Griffiths: Chinatown, Woodworm (with art nouveau stencil hints), Plant, Classified. In 2017, Christina Janus and Desmond Wong co-designed Authentic Sans. He won the People's Choice award for Untitled in 2016 at the Morisawa Type Design Competition 2016. Linkedin link. |
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file name: Christina Janus Desmond Wong Authentic Sans150 2017
file name: Christina Janus Desmond Wong Authentic Sans60 2017
file name: Christina Janus Desmond Wong Authentic Sans
file name: Christina Janus Desmond Wong Authentic Untitled
file name: Desmond Wong Untitled 2016
file name: Desmond Wong Frank De Rose Brendan Griffiths Chinatown 2013
file name: Desmond Wong Frank De Rose Brendan Griffiths Classified 2013
file name: Desmond Wong Frank De Rose Brendan Griffiths Plant 2013
file name: Desmond Wong Frank De Rose Brendan Griffiths Woodworm 2013
file name: Desmond Wong Kathleen Creighton Vogue Logotype 2013
file name: Desmond Wong Kathleen Creighton Vogue Sans 2013
file name: Desmond Wong Bema 2013
file name: Desmond Wong Bema 2013b
file name: Desmond Wong Bema 2013c
file name: Desmond Wong Export
file name: Desmond Wong Mandelbrot 2011
file name: Desmond Wong Mandelbrot 2011b
file name: Desmond Wong O M Steiner 2013
file name: Desmond Wong Typeface 2015
file name: Desmond Wong Typeface 2015b
file name: Desmond Wong Typeface 2015c
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