Every month, MyFonts releases to its subscribers an interview to a successful Type designer. For the month of July 2014 they decided to do something different: they published a round-up of what the recent interviewees have been up to in the latest months.
I was asked to create an illustration that would gather all the designers (14!) in one group portrait. Featured in the newsletter and of course, in the illustration –from upper right corner to bottom right:
I was asked to create an illustration that would gather all the designers (14!) in one group portrait. Featured in the newsletter and of course, in the illustration –from upper right corner to bottom right:
Eduardo Manso, Rui Abreu, Charled Borges de Oliveira, Latinotype, Font You, the Northern Block, René Bieder and Matthew Carter!
Below you'll find some of pictures of the process, from thumbnails to finished work! Have fun!
Finished Illustration.
Rough sketch.
Work in progress with placeholders for the missing portraits.
The letters are the initials of the Type foundries or of the designers themselves. And to each designer was assigned his or her most recent font!
