Olga Pankova

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Olga Pankova Moscow-based graphic and type designer who graduated from the design department of Moscow Power Engineering Institute in 2009 and completed a two-year Type&Typography course at British Higher School of Art and Design in 2014. Pankova does stone carving, delivers lectures, organizes master classes on type and chalk lettering. Pankova collaborates with CSTM Fonts, Moscow Design Studio, Bang! Bang! Agency, Izdatelsky Dom MeshcheryakovаPpublishingHhouse, Mann, Ivanov and Ferber publishing company (MIF). She created the hexagonal typeface Yalo (2014) and the angular display typeface Cumber (2013) for Latin and Cyrillic. At the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow, she published the mag and newspaper typeface family Pulitzer (2014: Latin and Cyrillic) that was developed from a broad nib pen. In 2016, Ilya Ruderman and Olga Pankova published Big City Grotesque Pro at CSTM Fonts. Ilya Ruderman created the first version of (the humanist sans) BigCity Grotesque for Bolshoi Gorod magazine (Big City). It was the first magazine sans serif with Cyrillic ligatures, and won an award in 2009 in the international competition, Modern Cyrillic 2009. In the 2016 version, by Olga Pankova, the shapes of the letters have been updated, and there are new upright and italic styles, small capitals and new ligatures and non-alphabetic symbols. Pankova won an award in the Latin category at the 22nd Morisawa Type Design competition in 2019 for Courbe (or Curbe), an expressive display typeface inspired by the Soviet era. That font can be purchased from Type Today.	EXTERNAL LINKS Olga Pankova [Designer info] Behance page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Hexagonal typefaces ⦿ Type design in Russia ⦿ Cyrillic type design ⦿