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Stephen Farrell

Font Designer

Date: 4 July 2009
Designed Fonts: 3

Stephen Farrell is founder of Slip Studios, a multidisciplinary design environment which fosters the creative interaction of writers and visual artists. He designs both graphic literature and digital typography, each of which propels and informs the creation and distribution of the other. He also teaches in the Visual Communications department at The Illinois Institute of Art in Chicago. Farrell's acclaimed font designs include Flexure, Missive, Entropy, Osprey, Commonworld and Indelible Victorian, all distributed through [T-26] font foundry in Chicago. Since 1994, Farrell's type designs have focused primarily on digitally-simulated handwriting from specific periods of history. Each addresses the question: What does it mean to place handwriting (and thereby one's identity) outside the act of its creation? His latest font, Volgare, was inspired by a hand from 1601, Florence, and is available exclusively through his own foundry, The Manuscripts Folio.

Farrell's collaborative endeavors have been published on the pages of Emigre, Typography Now Two, Private Arts Literary Journal, the electronic book review and The Pannus Index. The work is concerned not only with what a character says, the linguistic flavors and meanings of the words, but with what a character does with his words. And around his words. The design articulates this subtext. Along with literary honors such as The Tsujinaka Fiction award of Kyoto and several nominations for a Pushcart Prize, Farrell's joint ventures have received awards from design institutions including The American Center for Design, AIGA's 50 Books, The Type Directors Club, The Society for Publication Designers, Adobe Magazine and Letter Arts Review. Several pieces are in the permanent collections of The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City, The Newberry Library in Chicago and Princeton University's Fine Book collection.

Slipstudios
4421 North Francisco Avenue,
Chicago, Illinois 60625
USA

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