Preisverleihung – Internationale Bodensee Konferenz IBK – Förderpreis 2022


I was pleased to write and read the laudation for Fabian Harb as a member of the jury. Congratulations to Farbian Harb from Dinamo Typefaces. Great achievement!

Design in the aftermath
Fabian Harb often starts from neutral, sans-serif typefaces. With surprising interventions in the usual repertoire of forms, he creates new complex typeface families, for example compositions in the style of “Bauhaus meets Cowboy”. He is interested in the interplay between image and information, between programme and variability, between form and material. This results in complex notations for playful, but by no means formalistic approaches. For all the joy of experimentation, it is not a formal end in itself, but the unerring application that is ultimately the focus of this design. In cooperation with artists and designers, design solutions and objects are created for an illustrious, international group of clients, which, despite their visual range, reveal a fantastic and consistent language of design.