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SchickFonts [Florian Schick]

Florian Schick (b. 1982) is a German graphic and type designer who lives in Den Haag. He studied communication design at the Royal Academy of Art Den Haag and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover. He finished the Typemedia program at KABK in 2011.

Since 2006 he has been working as a freelance designer and founded his type foundry Schickfonts in 2008. He works for his own clients as well as for graphic design studios like Bold Monday, Treibwerk or Die Typonauten. His focus is on the fields of typedesign, corporate and editorial design. SchickFonts, operated out of Hildesheim, Germany, and is now located in The Hague.

Codesigner at The Typonauten (based in Bremen) of the brush font series B-Movie Retro (2007, with Ingo Krepinsky and Stefan Kroemer).

At SchickFonts, he made the blackletter family Authentic Ink (2008), as well as B-Movie Retro and B-Movie Splatter.

At KABK, he created the Mag Grotesque type family, which features 15 styles from Bold Extended to Thin Condensed. In 2012, he started the design studio Schick Toikka in Berlin with Lauri Toikka.

At Bold Monday, he published the rounded sans typeface family Trio Grotesk (2011-2012, Bold Monday). He writes: Trio Grotesk is Florian Schick's personal interpretation of Kaart Antieke---an early 20th century sans serif [1909, to be more precise] used by Piet Zwart in his famous, yet never officially published essay about modern typography called "Van oude tot nieuwe typografie".

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