Happy New Year everyone!
2011 was a great (and busy) time for us at Mota Italic. We appreciate all of your support making it an unforgettable year! Here is a quick recap of some highlights in case you missed the news the first time around.
New work:
We began the year by finishing the work on our custom type family for Skoda Auto.
The New Boutique and Gallery:
In May, we opened a boutique and gallery space in Prenzlauer Berg. It has been slowly and steadily growing thanks to Berlin’s awesome design/type community, countless visitors, and all of our friends online!
The shop when we opened in May.
The shop as of December!
Every week, new books and merchandise are coming into the boutique. We recently began adding the books to our online shop, in case you aren’t able to make it to our space in person. Keep checking back, as there are still many more products to upload.
>> The bookshop
We hosted four exhibitions this year in our gallery:
The first was “CAPITAL: Berliner Buchstaben” featuring 27 Berlin-based type designers’ letters illustrated by 27 Berlin-based artists/illustrators/designers.
“Type Masters” was our second exhibition and the first preview of the typefaces of this year’s graduating master classes of the MATD program from Reading, England and the t]m program in The Hague, the Netherlands
>> The show & links to more of the students’ work
In October, House Industries presented their fine silk screened prints from the Photo-Lettering Inc collection.
For the final show of the year, we made an installation called "Blacklecker: tasty fraktur" featuring 22 of the most significant new blackletter typefaces of the last 21 years.
>> More about Blacklecker here
Next…
We have a lot of plans for 2012 and are really looking forward to it! Get ready for some new fonts, updates to Vesper and Mota Pixel, new exhibitions, and many more books and products to come this year.
The next show "Rotation, Reflection, Repetition, Repetition" starts this week! Stay tuned for more information!
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