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Christian Schwartz has partnered with Paul Barnes to form Commercial Type, a new type foundry based in London and New York. Please click here to visit our site.
RETAIL FONTS
CUSTOM FONTS
Please note that, except where indicated, these typefaces are not available for licensing.
Publications:
Amplitude Classified
Amplitude Headline
Big Black Book Stencil
Brunel
Caponi
Farnham Headline
Houston
Kaiser (NEW)
Popular
Corporate Design:
Bosch
Deutsche Bahn
Eero
Empire State Building
Harrison
Munich Re Group
Symantec
UNFINISHED
EARLY WORK
ABOUT
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2003. Based on an unnamed typeface drawn by Eero Saarinen for the Dulles International Airport. Art Directed by Ken Barber and Andy Cruz. Commissioned by House Industries for the Dulles International Airport. This typeface is exclusive to the airport and cannot be licensed.
Architects rarely, if ever, make good type designers, but there's something I really like about this face. It's charming and naive and willfully follows its rules, even when they don't really work. I do find it odd, though, that this typeface is so rectangular when Saarinen's buildings have such swooping curves. I worked from blueprints and had an interesting challenge getting characters like @, § and € to fit into Saarinen's system. The arrows all came from the blueprints as well.
This face was drawn for an architecture firm working on a restoration and reovation of Dulles Airport. If I did my job well, you won't be able to tell which signs are old and which are new.
Medium weight, plus Arrows.

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