Two examples of a superb four-colour screenprint in progress by Jason Munn of The Small Stakes design studio. Many of his prints are for sale, in limited runs, in his online shop.

Paperfont for Neo2 magazine. Custom type for every issue by Ipsum Planet.

Folded Paper by Daniella Spinat.

Folded-Font in standard A4 paper by Vienna’s BUSK, via LetterCult.

Fold Font, by James Machin.

The Folded, by Anton Studer for Neo2 magazine.

Printing as a vocation attracts many young and women, because it offers real opportunities for steady work, good pay and advancement.

Job security, stable earnings. Sounds good. Perhaps you’d like to cross-train on a Linotype machine.

For the record, I think about this line of education every day.

Regarding the design of characters, I believe it is especially essential to do so by hand, where one can observe the calligraphic character. […Working digitally] limits of the very vision of the designer. In any case I believe that the design of characters is a complex issue and should be [evolutionary, so as] not to over-design. In designing courses I choose a specific topic, but very wide and with just a moderate amount of restrictions and parameters to be met, because violating the rules is easier than creating alone, and the most original follow the opposite path. [–Translation via Google, with some cleanup. Original.]

I’ve spent the evening searching and turned up very little English-language information on this face, much less examples in use. Commissioned by the Università Iuav di Venezia, and designed by Luciano Perondi in 2004 for use in Venice’s wayfinding systems, it’s not readily apparent to me if this face was ever actively used for wayfaring in the public realm. That said, I’m awfully enamoured with Miniotype‘s character at large sizes, and surprisingly delicate grace when set small.

We think of signs–the task is to bring a person from one place to another but can be [visually] very strong, even evocative. Perhaps we need to reassure the user of a danger, or simply make them feel comfortable in an elegant place. [These are] messages that are not attributable solely to writing, but also to a form of rhetoric of another type; a second level of reading. [–As before.]

I may be late to the party, but I’m willing to suggest Luciano Perondi, and his typefaces, just gained a new fan.