The Cult of Virus

Various members of the Cult of Virus have been sending in their spots of VirusFonts, found in weird and wonderful places around the world.

Seen in Prague: Mason

Mason is one of the studio’s most well known (and most used) typefaces and it is always interesting to see it abroad.

Seen: Unusual Typographic Gravestones – Patrick Caulfield

Many of you who followed my work will know one of my main inspirations and areas of interest has been memorials and stone-carved lettering. (I even wrote a thesis about them for my BA at Central St. Martins).

In Use: Priori

It came to our attention a while ago, but we have neglected to post in on the blog until now – Priori Serif is being used by University Challenge.

Bourgeois at the Movies

Following on from a previous blog post earlier this month, Film’s Favourite Font?, we recently came across another of our typefaces being used on a Movie poster.

Film’s Favourite Font?

It’s always interesting to spot another use of one of our fonts. Recently we’ve noticed that the publicity for an upcoming film release Dorian Gray has been featuring Mason. The British film is an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s 1891 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and stars Barn Barnes and Colin Firth, amongst others.

Television Delivers People

‘Produced in 1973, “Television Delivers People” is a seminal work in the now well-established critique of popular media as an instrument of social control that asserts itself subtly on the populace through “entertainments,” for the benefit of those in power-the corporations that mantain and profit from the status quo.

Internship: Fenn

Currently interning in the Studio we have Steve Fenn who recently graduated from Lincoln. He’s working on designing some new Virus pieces, that will facilitate some developments to our site.
His own site can be viewed here

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The equal sign was first used by Robert Recorde in The Whetstone of Witte (1557)

Typography—Monument London

After the reopening of the Monument following a £4.5m facelift, we went along to have a look.