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Studios & Designers Identified

Chris Ashworth, Creator Director of then RAYGUN Magazine
- 90s post-modernist approach to typography and editorial design

Mirko Borsche, Founder of Bureau Mirko Borsche 
- Experimental typography, editorial and branding
- Previously contacted before

Idea Magazine, one of the first magazines in Japan that focuses on graphic design and typography
- Will be useful for CoP dissertation

Sascha Lobe, Creative Director of L2M3
- Typography, Exhibition branding, signage systems

Hagihara Takuya, graphic designer in Tokyo
- Colour theory, unique graphic compositions, useful for dissertation

MadebyAnonymous, multidisciplinary studio in Singapore
- Exhibition branding, typography 

Studio Laucke Sieben
- Experimental typography, Identities, Editorial design

Patrick Thomas
- 'Graphic art', traditional print technique, typography

ZakGroup Office
- Art Direction, Exhibition design, Identities, Editorial

OK-RM
- Identities, Art Direction, Editorial

8vo

MuirMcNeil

Hamish Muir, Co-Founder of then 8vo and now part of MuirMcNeil
- Experimental typography, technical design, process driven 
- Previously interviewed

Tony Brook, Spin Studio
- Identity, Exhibition design, editorial, typography
- Practicing 'modernist' design today

These studios and designers were chosen based on personal interest within graphic design.

For this task, it would be appropriate to create a type specimen for a personal typeface designed during summer. The specimen will communicate my interest in typography, editorial design and my interest in the 'style' of graphic design I want to create.