I’ve always been curious about the spaces in which designers work, and have been fortunate enough to see several, including the offices and other miscellaneous workspaces of various type and graphic designer friends. Below are photographs supplied by a variety of MyFonts designers of their own office spaces, each as different from the other as their owners’ types are different from each other. ? Mark Simonson is the designer of the newly-reengineered Mostra Nuova , Kinescope , the terrific Proxima family and several other faces; he lives in Minneapolis, and was the subject of the January 2009 issue of Creative Characters .

I’ve always been curious about the spaces in which designers work, and have been fortunate enough to see several, including the offices and other miscellaneous workspaces of various type and graphic designer friends. Below are photographs supplied by a variety of MyFonts designers of their own office spaces, each as different from the other as their owners’ types are different from each other.

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Mark Simonson is the designer of the newly-reengineered Mostra Nuova, Kinescope, the terrific Proxima family and several other faces; he lives in Minneapolis, and was the subject of the January 2009 issue of Creative Characters.

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Here, Michael Doret is hard at work in his basement office, where he created the beautiful and very successful Metro Script as well as his most recent release Deliscript.

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Ray Larabie, originally from Vancouver, now lives and works in Japan; he is the designer of over 450 faces here at MyFonts and was the subject of the May 2009 issue of Creative Characters. Some of his recent releases include Enamel Brush, Thump, and the Madawaska family.

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Mark van Bronkhorst, designer of the criminally-underused text face Verdigris (pictured on his monitor), works out of a small office looking out onto his backyard garden; the two children that take up all of his non-type time are shown in the framed picture on his desk. Well-known as a publication designer, Mark was AD during John Berry’s editorship at the late, great U&LC.

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Brooklyn-based designer Jackson Cavanaugh has so far only one face with MyFonts – his recent release Alright Sans, a large and flexible sans family – but we expect great things from him in the years to come.

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Australian type and graphic designer James Arboghast has created a number of exceptional display faces, including the Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired Pykes Peak, the incised blackletter Sibyl and the liquid Jabberwub.

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Portuguese designer Rui Abreu is responsible for the excellent modernist sans faces Gesta, Cifra and Tirana, among others.

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Ryoichi Tsunekawa is principal of Japan’s Flat-It foundry, and has also released a number of historically-inflected (mostly Deco, Arts & Crafts and Constructivist) faces as part of the Prop-a-Ganda collection; he is responsible for more than 75 typefaces, including the recent connecting Sneaker Script.

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Last (and shortest) but certainly not least is Fontbureau’s Dyana Weissman, who worked closely with Richard Lipton on the magnificent 36-font revival Benton Modern Display, originally created for the Boston Globe and based on drawings Fuller Benton made of Century Expanded and Century Schoolbook for ATF.

More here:
Type Designer Workspaces, part 1