Viktor Nübel http://www.viktornuebel.com type design work Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:26:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Oliva http://www.viktornuebel.com/types/oliva/ http://www.viktornuebel.com/types/oliva/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:02:31 +0000 admin http://www.viktornuebel.com/?p=605 Oliva

Oliva takes strong inspiration from Othmar Motter’s Letraset beauty Motter Ombra and the Deco stencil stylings of Paul Renner’s Futura Black. Building on those influences Oliva fuses the flavors of 1930s Bauhaus style, late ’60s flower power, early ’70s Deco revival and adds just a touch of glam.

Oliva Specimen

This bold and lively display face is OpenType Pro, featuring full Western and Central European, Baltic and Turkish language support, plus a handful of useful ligatures, superior numerals, alternates and a set of decorative ornaments and arrows.
Oliva Features

Oliva Characters

Available at veer.com and MyFonts

Read a review  of Oliva at myfonts.de

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OSTBLOCK first was called ›Q3A‹. I drew the letters in 2004, inspired by pictures of East Berlin. From a bird’s eye view and with just a little imagination the structure and the shapes of the buildings, built in the late 60s, do look like letters. All these prefabricated slab-construction buildings (Plattenbauten) of former GDR had names like WBS70 or Q3A. The alphabet was drawn in Freehand, with 3 different layers, to make the letters look 3-dimensional. But it never made it into a font – until now.

Ostblock Specimen

Today, with OpenType technology, it is one font that containes 5 layers as Stylistic Sets and a wide range of accented characters and all kerned!

Learn more on how to use OSTBLOCK with this PDF.

Ostblock Alphabet

Published by Volcano Type. Buy at myfonts.com

Ostblock in use: Flash presentation

]]> http://www.viktornuebel.com/types/ostblock/feed/ 0 PTL Attack http://www.viktornuebel.com/types/ptl-attack/ http://www.viktornuebel.com/types/ptl-attack/#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:55:08 +0000 admin http://www.lieberungewoehnlich.de/newSite/?p=4 Attack Teaser
PTL Attack is a digital version of my thesis Type Attack!. I extended it to a small type family. It now has 3 weights, expert-sets, medieval and lining-figures.
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PTL Attack Characters
PTL Attack is available at primetype.com or myfonts.com

PTL Attack in use: Adbuster Magazin #85

PTL Attack in Adbusters #85
PTL Attack in Adbusters #85
PTL Attack in Adbusters #85

]]> http://www.viktornuebel.com/types/ptl-attack/feed/ 0 PTL Attack Rough http://www.viktornuebel.com/types/ptl-attack-rough/ http://www.viktornuebel.com/types/ptl-attack-rough/#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:12:49 +0000 admin http://www.lieberungewoehnlich.de/newSite/?p=12 Attack Rough Teaser
PTL AttackRough is the dirty pendant of PTL Attack. After making the digital curves of PTL Attack I cut out the whole alphabet, made a stencil and digitized the sprayed letters.

PTL Attack Rough Stencils

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The font contains two sets of basic characters that alterenate with the help of OpenType technology. It also has a large set of diacritical characters, that all have individual shapes.

PTL Attack Rough Diacritics

PTL Attack Rough Contextual Alternates

One of the questions while working on that font was, what is the maximum amount of points allowed for one glyph. I had something like 300 hundred in my mind. In the end the number of points didn’t seem to be a problem, but rather the curves. We had to kill all of them, because there were too much of them to do them all properly. So there are only straight lines between points.

PTL Attack Rough Characters

Available at primetype.

]]> http://www.viktornuebel.com/types/ptl-attack-rough/feed/ 0 Modul72 http://www.viktornuebel.com/types/modul72/ http://www.viktornuebel.com/types/modul72/#comments Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:20:46 +0000 admin http://www.lieberungewoehnlich.de/newSite/?p=143 Modul72
Modul72 is based on decorative wall elements used in the former GDR. Simple elements, called Formsteine, were assembled to form the patterns on walls, fences or buildings. These decorative walls can be found in all of eastern europe. I found some of these amazing patterns in the Leipziger Strasse that were built around the ground floor of big Plattenbauten (prefabricated slab-construction building).

Modul72 overview

The eye-like element was made of 4 pieces of the same shape that was mirrored and rotated. I played with this shape, arranged new elements and put them into a font − countless wallpapers can be created this way. I’m using it as a kind of logo type/CI for myself now.

Wallpaper 1

Wallpaper 2

Wallpaper 3

Wallpaper 5

Wallpaper 6

Wallpaper 7

And these funny friends can be found on the wall of a Kindergarten not far away …

modul72 Extras

]]> http://www.viktornuebel.com/types/modul72/feed/ 0 Type Attack! http://www.viktornuebel.com/types/type-attack/ http://www.viktornuebel.com/types/type-attack/#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:14:44 +0000 admin http://www.lieberungewoehnlich.de/newSite/?p=105 Type Attack!

»Type Attack!« was my thesis. The idea was to create a typeface for the anti globalization network attac. I thought it would be good to have a kind of corporate type for all protest banners they use at demonstartions. Mostly these are handmade. I designed a very simple type stencil. The stencil allows you to write the whole alphabet, numbers and punctuation.

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Type Attack Alphabet

Type Attack! Banner

After graduating this experiment provides as a model for the PTL Attack. The project has been featured in output.

]]> http://www.viktornuebel.com/types/type-attack/feed/ 0 Digital lettering http://www.viktornuebel.com/types/comic/ http://www.viktornuebel.com/types/comic/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 2009 06:42:52 +0000 admin http://www.lieberungewoehnlich.de/newSite/?p=85 Comic lettering

Digitizing comic lettering started as a favour for a friend. When his first graphic novel was getting published abroad, he didn’t want it to be set in Comic Sans.Comic lettering 1

With the second project OpenType technology came into game. Alternate versions of each letter that randomly changes let the text look more lively and closer to the usually handmade lettering. This next one was done in collaboration with Hendrik Möller.
Comic lettering 2

Further custom work was done  for publisher Reprodukt and Drawn & Quarterly. Usually there are at least two verions of each letter that alternate.
Comic lettering 3

arrow_rightInterested in digitizing lettering? Get in touch!

In use …


Guy Delisle: Burma Chronicles
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly, 2008.
Original lettering by Dirk Rehm (Reprodukt).

Susumu Katsumata: Red Snow
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly, 2009.
Original lettering by Rich Tomasso.

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