


Pradell was freely inspired from punches cut by catalan punchcutter Eudald Pradell (1721-1788), and is considered to be Balius' main work.

Type Republic: Pradell, Trochut, SuperVeloz, SV Marfil Caps (2004), SV Fauno Caps.Andreu Balius completed the design and included an italic version and a large variety of ligatures (both for regular and italic). Typerware: Czeska was developed from Vojtech Preissig's woodtype typefaces.Casasin, he created ITC Belter (1996) and ITC Belter Mega Outline (1996). ITC: ITC Temble (1996, a great subdued ghoulish face).Garcia/Typerware offers about 50 fonts, including some very artsy typefaces, such as Fabrique (Andreu Balius), Futuda, Garcia Bodoni (Typerware), Alkimia (Estudi Xarop), Ariadna (pixel font, 1988-1989), Garcia Bitmap (1993), Playtext (Andreu Balius, 1995), Matilde Script (Andreu Balius, 1994: an embroidery face), Fabrique (1993, Andreu Balius) and Dinamo (1993, Balius and Casasin at Typerware), Helvetica Fondue (1993-1994), Futuda (1993), Ozo Type (1994), Tiparracus (1994, dingbats), Mi mama Me Soba Script (1994), Parkinson (1994), Garcia Bodoni (1995), Garcia snack's (1993-1995), Juan Castillo Script (1995, irregular handwriting), and Vizente Fuster (1995), all by Andreu Balius and Joancarles Casasin, 1993-1995 Water Knife (Laudelino L.Q., 1995) Alquimia (Estudi Xarop, 1995) Jam Jamie (Malcolm Webb, 1996) Network (Alex Gifreu, 1996) Panxo-Pinxo (David Molins, 1996) Euroface 80 mph (Peter Bilak, 1996) Inmaculatta (Roberto Saenz Maguregui, 1997) Proceso Sans (by Argentinan Pablo Cosgaya, 1996) Afligidos deudos (Adria Gual, 1996) Route 66 (Francesc Vidal, 1997) Popular (Sergi Ibanez, 1997) Visible (handwriting by Fabrice Trovato, 1997) SoundFile (Reto Brunner, 1998) Ninja type (kana-lookalike alphabet by Charly Brown, 1995) Vertigo (Charly Brown, 1996) Loop UltraNormal (Franco and Sven, 1996) Inercia (Inigo Jerez, 1996).The use of Type in Editorial Design, published in English by BIS (Amsterdam, 2003).įontFont link. Coorganizer of ATypI 2014 in Barcelona.Īuthor of Type at work. At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, he spoke about the Imprenta Real. SuperVeloz (codesigned with Alex Trochut) won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition.Īt ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, he spoke on Pradell and Super-Veloz. Pradell also won an award at the TDC2 Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2002. He is presently an associate professor at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.īalius won a Bukvaraz 2001 award for Pradell. He cofounded Type Republic (see also here), and ran Andreu Balius (tipo)graphic design. Typerware existed until 2001 and was based in Santa Maria de Martorelles, a village near Barcelona. He cofounded Typerware in 1996 with Joancarles P. He founded Garcia Fonts&Co in Barcelona in 1993 to show his experimental designs. He holds a PhD in Design from the University of Southampton (UK). TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated onīorn in Barcelona in 1962, Andreu Balius studied Sociology in the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona (1980-1984), and graphic design at IDEP in Barcelona (1985-1989).
