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Studio Feed (or: Feedtype) [Anouk Pennel]

Studio Feed (or: Feedtype) is a Montreal-based studio, est. 1999. Its typefaces:

• Vells Mono (2017). Originally designed for the visual identity of SSSVLL, but now a retail typeface. Designer unknown.
• In 2011, it published the retail typeface Wigrum, a sans serif with strong references to both geometrical sans of the thirties, and to their current influence. It can be bought from BAT Foundry. The designers, Anouk Pennel and Raphaël Daudelin, explain: Wigrum was born in 2011, when Anouk Pennel and Raphaël Daudelin, from Montréal-based design studio Feed, were preparing the book design for Daniel Canty's latest novel. Canty, a contemporary writer from Québec, writes in Wigrum about a mysterious character who moves at the border between fiction and reality, between Second World War time and present time, between Eastern and Western Europe.
• Ottomono (2014). A monospaced font developed for the Ottopapax project: A collaboration between designers Patrick Bisson, Étienne Hotte and Anouk Pennel, the idea behind Pliage No1 was to develop a product combining object and graphic design, with the potential for mass production while remaining affordable. Pliage No1 consists of a single sheet of cardboard worked in an industrial manner. In the same way, Ottomono is formed by sturdy yet simples shapes, both industrial and familiar.
• Atelier Mono (2014): a custom monospaced all caps font for the branding of Atelier Général, an architecture agency based in Montreal.
• Guillon (2016: manufactured by Coppers and Brasses). They write: Guillon, a Montreal-minded sans serif influenced by the international style, is named in honour of designer Jacques Guillon. It was created for the rebranding of GSM Project. After designing the Cord Chair (1953), Mr. Guillon lent his initial to GSM Project, the multidisciplinary design agency he started with Morley Smith and Laurent Marquart. Right from the beginning, GSM has breathed a modernist, international life into Montreality, with notable contributions to Expo 67, the design of the Montreal Metro, and the furnishings of the head office of Alcan aluminium corporation. Guillon was also adopted as the official typeface for the identity of the ATypI conference in Montreal in 2017.
• Feed Mono.
• Multiplex.
• Adaptive (octagonal).
• More Gothic (2017): the loud and loutish font with a crooked tongue for the project A Book About, commissioned by Corinn Gerber and Benjamin Thorel at Art Metropole, in Toronto. This display font presents an assortment of boxy and rowdy letterforms, whose common denominator is their vernacular brashness.
• Infrafonte.
• Toxstruct. A modular typeface possibly made with Fontstruct.
• MML Mono.
• Uno (2014): A custom rounded sans typeface done for the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. The shapes of the characters are directly inspired by the stencils formerly used for architectural blueprints.
• Citerne (2021). The tough face with leakproof joints, this no-nonsense sans was conceived in 2017 as part of the new visual identity for Reservoir, a gourmet brew pub on Montreal's Duluth Street.
• Youth Grotesque (2021). Feedtype writes: This razor-edged family of seven weights was first developed as an artistic proposition for the project Dans un monde post: un événement post-punk. Sharp angles and hijacked historical references lend a bombastic individuality to the typeface.
• E8888 No 001 (2022). A sans developed during the COVID pandemic and Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Studio Feed writes: E/8888 No001 was designed in 2019 for Editions 8888, the Montreal-based collective creating the accoutrements of a dystopian optimism. E/8888 No001, the very first Editions 8888 product and spearhead of its visual identity. One weight, its italics, that's all. E/8888 No001, an all-purpose Grotesque. Rough shapes, solid width, dissonant details, a fusion of historical references and industrial strategies, the raw material of an approach devoid of artifice. E/8888 No001, the very first Brutaluxe font, offers no apologies and has no regrets.

Old Studio Feed link. Behance link. Newest Behance link.

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