Post on September 1, 2011
Stephen Farrell
Award-winning designer Stephen Farrell creates work that is intricately detailed, avowedly non-commercial,and unabashedly intellectual. Farrell designs experimental fonts and fiction, and he teaches at the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago. Projects include the novel VAS, a full-on collaboration with author Steve Tomasula. Farrell’s digital typeface Volgare is based on a 1601 Florentine manuscript written by an anonymous clerk. (Farrell studied the original at Chicago’s Newberry Library.) Volgare includes over 500 distinct glyphs, including ligatures, word endings, and combination characters. Each one is raw and imperfect, erupting on the page like an abrasion or scar.
Institute of Chicago. Projects include the novel VAS, a full-on collaboration with author Steve Tomasula. Farrell’s digital typeface Volgare is based on a 1601 Florentine manuscript written by an anonymous clerk. (Farrell studied the original at Chicago’s Newberry Library.) Volgare includes over 500 distinct glyphs, including ligatures, word endings, and combination characters. Each one is raw and imperfect, erupting on the page like an abrasion or scar.
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