DJR Manicotti is all about the imbalance of black and white. Its black, tightly-fitted letters create a dense and dark page, pushing the white shapes inside and in-between the letters into the spotlight. Inspired by the French Clarendon style of wood type popular in the nineteenth century, it takes this concept to the extreme: Manicotti's axis is horizontal and its serifs are over three times the thickness of its stems.
Climax typeface debuts
Hampshire College's student newspaper, The Climax, begins using a custom type family that I developed as part of a semester-long information design project. More on this soon.
Since a great deal of my recent work has centered around type design, I have built a new website at www.djrtype.com to showcase my typeface designs.
Manicotti typeface wins type design award
Manicotti (pictured at left) was awarded the Certificate of Excellence in Type Design at the Type Directors Club TDC2 2007 type design competition.
Recent posters
The second in the Science & Religion series, this poster is for David Sloan Wilson's lecture on how religion can be viewed from an evolutionary perspective.
After responding to a call for entries, I was selected to do four posters for a series of lectures on science and religion. This is the poster for Paul Bloom's lecture on how our understanding of bodies and souls from the time we are very young impacts our religious beliefs.
Using bold colors and simple shapes, I designed this poster for a theatrical production at UMass. The play is about two spiritual guides who help a man track down the reincarnation of his dead son.
This poster, done for a play at the National Yiddish Book, is based on Yiddish theatre posters from the nineteenth century. The play is a fairy-tale translated from the original Yiddish by a Division III Hampshire student.
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