Two core concepts define the type designer Arthur Calame\u2019s practice. One, always creating unique tools for each project , and two taking influence for his work from wider culture, things \u201cthat everyone can experience in their daily lives, whether they are typographers or not\u201d. The designer, who studied typeface design at Brussels\u2019 visuals arts university La Cambre, now has a series of typefaces under his belt that are testament to this two pronged approach.<\/p>\n
Take Maroni, for instance, a typeface created for the Marronnage exhibition shown at Paris\u2019 Maison de l\u2019Am\u00e9rique latine in 2022. The custom design was inspired by a \u201cslightly clumsy design,\u201d Arthur says. Its edges are webbed and each letter bleeds into one another, and it was applied onto exhibition material with meandering curves, granting the lettering an added organic feel. Arthur is drawn to design that feels human and imperfect, \u201cwhich feels even more important in our age of hyper-digitisation\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n
Arthur\u2019s Bobine typeface is inspired by the LED display on train screens. Dotted with pixels, it\u2019s a build up of functional letters with characterful curves. Arthur likes to see “letters and textual objects as soft material to be sculpted, like clay\u201d and views the role of a type designer as a one of a craftsman.<\/p>\n
Like Maroni\u2019s lettering, Arthur\u2019s many disciplines (professional and non-professional) bleed into one another, as he moves between wood carving, cooking, and baking to feed his design handiwork. Allowing his hobbies to flourish in their own right \u201callow[s] you to always come back to type with a fresh, and sometimes childlike eye,\u201d Arthur ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two core concepts define the type designer Arthur Calame\u2019s practice. One, always creating unique tools for each project…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-395288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}