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ABOUT

Flemming Bau [Oct 22 2025]

Danish designer of the circle-based font Bau (1972, Mecanorma), which won an award in 1972. He wrote: I was the head designer at Moesgårdd Museum in Aarhus, working as an exhibition designer and illustrator with archaeological and ethnographic themes---exhibitions, posters, book design, and artifact drawings. For this museum, I created the Bau font, and after that, I designed the entire alphabet for Mecanorma. In a letter to them, I wrote: "The Bau type is created for rather small spacing. The type is a new, harmonious, compact type, combining psychedelicflowing elements and strict geometric construction".

Bau was revived and renewed in 2023 by Benoit Brun and Raphaël de la Morinerie at WrittenShape Type Foundry as Naive.

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