Luca Pellegrini

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Luca Pellegrini Luca Pellegrini (Lugano, Switzerland, b. 1989) studied industrial design from 2010 to 2012 and Visual Communication from 2013 to 2016 at SUPSI (Scola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana). He obtained an MA in Type Design from ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne in 2019. In 2019, Luca joined Lineto as a full-time type designer, and he has been an occasional mentor for type design projects at SUPSI. In 2016, Luca Pellegrini designed Xanti32, a high-contrast ball terminal-laden typeface that revives a font from 1932. Xanti32 is related to his graduation thesis, Forgotten typeface, Xanti Schawinsky designer di caratteri (2016). He explains: This is the story of a designer, photographer and artist who has done many things in his life and has enriched the history of the graphic design with significant contributions. But very few people remember him, and most of his work has come to be forgotten, as in the case of his alphabet, found on a dusty page of a delicate magazine dated 1935, found on a shelf in the midst of thousands of other periodicals, in an archive that is rarely open to the public. Xanti32 was published as Xants in the Adobe Originals colection. Adobe gives more details: In 1932, Xanti Schawinsky (1904-1979) designed an alphabet that combines two styles: a neo-classic stroke contrast paired with characteristics of stencil lettering. [...] Luca Pellegrini took on the modern look and re-drew the letterforms, interrupted by subtle spaces where thick and thin strokes meet. He designed the LL Unica77 Condensed family (2020) in consultation with Christian Mengelt, drawing from historical documents provided by the Haas foundry's last director, Alfred Hoffmann. Luca's adaptation and extension of Schawinsky's typewriter font for the Olivetti model Studio 42 is scheduled for a 2021 release at Lineto.	EXTERNAL LINKS Luca Pellegrini [Designer info] Behance page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type design in Switzerland ⦿ Bauhaus and type design ⦿