FontForum FontForum Designer Profile: Hans Schumacher URW++ DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT GMBH Poppenbütteler Bogen 36 22399 Hamburg Germany TEL +49 (0) 40 60605 0 FAX +49 (0) 40 60605 111 info@urwpp.de www.urwpp.com
1.1 URW++ FONTFORUM HANS SCHUMACHER HANS SCHUMACHER Hans Schumacher, born 1963 in Koblenz, grew up in Berlin (West), were he studied visual communication at Hochschule der Künste Berlin. After finishing with diploma in 1988, he started his career as a freelance designer in the field of corporate design and typography at MetaDesign, where he began digitizing the now well known ITC Officina for Erik Spiekermann. Stations and clients: MetaDesign, Sedley Place Design, Hayn/Willemeit, Team Peter M. Scholz, tritopp, Baumgardt Consultants among others. Commerzbank AG, Cornelsen Verlag, Deutsche Bundespost, Duden Verlag, Volkswagen AG, some public transport companies, among others. A major project and professional highlight: Duden Verlag new market image. In the year 1999/2000 he played an important part in designing the book jackets of DUDEN Volume 1 to 12, giving the forefront publishing company for Germanlanguage reference works a new and distinctive face. Volume 1»Duden Die deutsche Rechtschreibung«achieved a special award at the national competition»schönste deutsche Bücher«. Hans Schumacher runs his own one-man-company under the name»projektgrafik«in Berlin, Germany. PERSONAL WEBSITE www.projektgrafik.de OVERVIEW FONTFORUM FONTS BY HANS SCHUMACHER SCYLLA Scylla 6 Styles 2004 SLOPE Slope Sans 1 Style 2014 Slope Slab 1 Style 2014 02 05
2.1 URW++ FONTFORUM HANS SCHUMACHER FONTFORUM SCYLLA Scylla is his first design. The project was started in the mid 90s under the name Scully and reflects his interest in creating a straight forward, factual and elegant design the missing link between Futura and Frutiger, based on a humanistic approach. The three available weights will soon get company by a bold one, an informal design is on it's way. REGULAR MEDIUM 03 05
2.2 URW++ FONTFORUM HANS SCHUMACHER MEDIUM ITALIC FONTFORUM SLOPE Slope is an original design that combines a technological shape model borrowed from the early Macintosh system fonts with organic, open elements looking futuristic in a retrospective manner. Designed as part of a font family without different weights, Slope provides OpenType features for alternate letter forms in two stylistic sets. The basic version works similar to a stencil font, an alternative set has consistently closed shapes and a more rigid appearance, while the second stylistic set offers some alternative letter forms. Headlines and shorter texts set in Slope provide a variable, modern appearance. Slope Slab Pro goes very well with Slope Sans Pro and can be used as style variant or display. SLOPE SANS REGULAR SLOPE SLAB REGULAR 04 05
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