Altiplano

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Altiplano [Raphaël Verona] Editorial and graphic designer and art director based in Lausanne, Switzerland, who graduated from ECAL in 2009. Since 2012, he teaches typography and type design at Eracom Lausanne---École romande d'arts et communication---and ECAL. He set up ASltiplano in Lausanne. His typefaces: Celstine. A school project typeface at ECAL in 2009. Super Achachi (2013). A text typeface. Dominicale Medium (2012). An expressive text typeface originally designed for the book Sacré. Millionaire. Rounded. Renard (2014). A sans. Thames Capsule (2015-2016). The Thames Capsule project stands out because of its historic relevance. A feud between founder T.J. Cobden-Sanderson and partner Emery Walker of the Doves Press culminated in Cobden-Sanderson stealthily hurling the last of the Doves Type letterpress blocks off London's Hammersmith Bridge into the River Thames in 1917. In 2014, Robert Green (Doves Type) managed to recover 150 original metal letterpress blocks with the help of divers from Port of London Authority, updating a digital facsimile of the typeface he had first issued in 2013. With Gaël Faure, he designed the commercial typeface Thames Capsule (2015-2016). Kirsch Rund Grotesk. ThreeThousand. Monaako (2016). An angular poster typeface. Nirvana Bold (2019). A display typeface. Atlantique Bermuda (2021). Totally experimental and on the edge. Atlantique Miami (2021). He writes: This font gathers visual rhythmic waves of inspiration from English round hand script of the 18th century and Scotch Roman typeface of the 19th century. Nirvana (2021). Dark Matter (2022). DarkMatter is the combination of two historical models. Verona explains: In the 1920s, Jan Tschichold published Die Neue Typographie, in which he confronts the old models, which he associates with vernacular forms of expression, with radical forms based on a geometrical construction. The letter becomes the elementary atom and the method by which the typographic compositions are displayed on the page seems to be borrowed from architecture. The second model he refers to is that of the artist Johannes Itten. Twitter link.	EXTERNAL LINKS Altiplano MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type design in Switzerland ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Experimental type ⦿