Laura Meseguer’s Article On the Making of Magasin

by Laura Meseguer posted September 9, 2015

Laura Meseguer wrote “Making waves”, an article about the design process of her typeface Magasin, published on I love typography.

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Laura Meseguer

Laura Meseguer is a freelance graphic and type designer born in Barcelona. Her studio works for international and domestic clients but also in self-initiated projects. In 2003–2004, she took a year off from her regular work to study type design at the post-graduate course Type]Media at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, the Netherlands. Through her own type foundry, Type-Ø-Tones, she publishes and promotes her type designs. Since then she has been teaching and giving talks and workshops around. As a typographer and type designer, she is specialized in all sorts of projects involving custom lettering and type design, for branding and publishing design. For her personal practice, she gets the inspiration from what is around and focuses in projects that mix that with her own vision of type and lettering, exploring the expressivity of letterforms. Craftsmanship and collaboration are the hallmarks of her practice, imbuing traditional techniques with an experimental twist. Rigor and joy are her animating principles. She has worked with clients such as TOUS, Typeform, Het Parool, Ajuntament de Barcelona and Google, among others. She is the author of TypoMag. Typography in Magazines, published by IndexBook and co-author of the book “Cómo crear tipografías. Del boceto a la pantalla”, published by Tipo e in Spanish and translated into Polish, Portuguese, English and Chinese.