Info
Typsam is a type design platform and foundry for the students in visual communication at Beckmans College of Design, Stockholm, Sweden.
This website aims to serve as a place for inspiration and exposure within type design, and to contribute to the conversation about contemporary typography from a student perspective. Within the framework of the platform and foundry, the students can share their sketches and ideas, get inspired by each other and have the possibility to distribute their typefaces.
Typsam is the graduation project of Gabriel Fager Ferrari, student in visual communication at Beckmans College of Design.
Special thanks to Laurens van Tour for coding this website.
Typefaces
All the letters and typefaces on this website are designed by the students in visual communication. Some typefaces are available upon request, and some are available for purchase. Every student keeps 100% of the earnings.
License
When using or purchasing one of the typefaces you automatically agree to this website’s EULA (End-user-License-Agreement).
Contact
To get in contact with one of the featured students, please click on the contact button at the corresponding image on the pinboard or on the info box at the corresponding typeface in the typetester.
For further information, please write to abc@typsam.se
Copyright
The copyright for any material created by the students on this website is reserved.
© Typsam 2019
Explore the pinboard and take part of the students' work in progress
Reidar Pritzel
ContactOne of the inspirations to the typeface Tobo Bold comes from Wayne Stettlers Neil Bold from 1966. Found on the this cover of Theater Der Zeit from 1979.
2019.04.10
23:01
Tilda Ragnartz
ContactA typeface I made during a summer course in type design with the purpose to pay the rent (and secondary to learn Glyphs). The typeface is based on a hand-drawn a, and is still incomplete.
2019.04.11
15:39
Louise Silfversparre
ContactSerpentin Sans is a typeface in progress. Serpentin in Swedish means party streamer, which is the inspiration for the movement and shapes of the letters.
2019.04.14
13:11
Lisa Åsberg
ContactA script font I have just started working on, based on my great grandmothers handwriting from the 1930s.
2019.04.25
16:57
Gabriel Fager Ferrari
ContactFirst steps on a new type design project. I’m exploring the relationship between the rounded and the sharp, without losing readability or character.
2019.05.01
10:34
Felix Scheynius
ContactInspired by the linking of heavy chains, Vince typeface aims to be hard and soft at the same time. Plastic Vinyl on mirror – scanned.
2019.04.10
23:01
Viktor Nilsson
ContactThis is a sketch of my font No Harmony. The letters are wobbly, naive and playful.
2019.04.09
20:30
Lova Nyblom
ContactInspired by parallel universes I’m finishing up a title font called “parallelogram” based on the shape of a parallelogram.
2019.04.10
17:46
Gabriel Fager Ferrari
ContactJust finished the final touches of the numbers in Ruta Sans.
2019.04.12
19:07
John Bengtsson
ContactEarly use of Extra, a WIP typeface inspired by old political posters and newspaper headlines.
2019.05.11
18:41
Viktor Nilsson
ContactThis is the work in progress of the typeface GORBA. A font inspired of 90's, Russia and cyberspace.
2019.05.18
14:54
Viktor Nilsson
ContactThis is the work in progress of the typeface GORBA. A font inspired of 90's, Russia and cyberspace.
2019.05.18
14:56
Gabriel Fager Ferrari
ContactWork in progress! This is one of the first digital sketches on a new typeface I’m currently working on.
2019.05.17
12:16