Time flies! Two weeks left to apply for EsadType 25-27: https://esad-amiens.design/fr/articles/esadtype-2025-27-appel-a-candidatures-call-for-applications

Feel free to get in touch for any question and send portfolios and project proposals!

My Klynok typeface has won a D&AD Awards Wood Pencil ❤️

30,000 submissions from 85 countries this year. The first-ever D&AD Pencil in the type design category for Ukraine. This victory means a lot to Ukrainian Cyrillic and to raising awareness about it worldwide. And it means a lot to me.

Grateful to everyone who guided, helped and supported me throughout this journey. @esadtype

Rooted in extensive historical research into Ukrainian manuscripts from the late 16th to the early 18th century, the typeface explores traditional Ukrainian letterforms and poses the question: What would the organic development of Ukrainian Cyrillic have looked like without the russian civil script reform of 1708?

This is my diploma project from the postgraduate program at @esadtype. Currently it includes Ukrainian Cyrillic and Latin in display, text, and italic. More on my Instagram.

Klynok (meaning “saber blade” in Ukrainian) is a shapeshifting type system inspired by Ukrainian Cossack Baroque heritage. It also draws from the image of the Cossack-kharakternyk, a warrior figure from Ukrainian folklore believed to transform into a wolf.

I updated my website as an excuse to use Electric Blue from @fontspectrum and to announce that I'm available for freelance type design work.

If you're curious my portfolio is available upon request.

https://ibrahimkactioglu.com

Honored to be speaking in person at Stanford University on May 7 about Ukrainian Cyrillic at the invitation of Stanford SILICON. If you’re around, I’d be happy to see you there.
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In another unbearable, murderous day for the Ukrainian people, pay attention to the project of @korolevtseva: https://esadtype.esad-amiens.fr/klynok

Support Ukrainian type designers.

Good morning, the @esadtype 23-25 projects are now online: https://esadtype.esad-amiens.fr

Enjoy!

You can check it out in detail from: https://esadtype.esad-amiens.fr/aksan/

I graduated from @esadtype about a month ago with my diploma project, Aksan. Here are some images for you!
Aksan is a font family that reflects the transformation of writing and the evolution of typography. Inspired by the Letter Revolution in Turkey, this typeface family combines strong visual references of the past with today’s design sensibility for a character that is both nostalgic and modern; creating a contemporary take on Turkish typographic identity.

EsadType 25-27
The new call for applications is now online: https://esad-amiens.design/fr/articles/esadtype-2025-27-appel-a-candidatures-call-for-applications

Deadline: June 9
Feel free to get in touch for any question and send portfolios and project proposals!

And congrats to @typetogether for the Gerard Unger Scholarship exhibition and publication. Getting four @esadtype students projects selected over ten winners, and many merits, means a lot for us.

Thank you @fontstand for a flawless conference.
Happy to share the Evert Bloemsma project with @martinmajoor & Jaap van Triest (thanks @kupfers for the impeccable moderation), happy to be with many @esadtype alumni, students and colleagues @typemytype & @hugues, happy to meet old and new friends (especially @fhardwig).
See you next year!

@typolea @korolevtseva Arnab Chakraborty: Manik
https://esadtype.esad-amiens.fr/manik/

@typolea Kateryna @korolevtseva: Klynok
https://esadtype.esad-amiens.fr/klynok/

Yaprak Buse Çağlar @typolea: Aksan
https://esadtype.esad-amiens.fr/aksan/

Spotting https://typo.social stickers in the audience.

Manou Quellec: Newz
https://esadtype.esad-amiens.fr/newz/

#EsadType #Amiens presentations 2025. I was late a few minutes, missing the first student. Sorry.

Oksana Sheinman: Latkes
https://esadtype.esad-amiens.fr/latkes/

Next week!
EsadType 2023/25 will present their projects on Wednesday 12th March 2025 to the jury (Damien Collot, Fanny Hamelin):

• 9.30: Oksana Sheinman
• 10.10: Manau Quellec
• 10.50: Yaprak Buse Çağlar
• 11.40: Kateryna Korolevtseva
• 12.20: Arnab Chakraborty

The graduation show will open at 18.00.

The exhibition will run until 28th March. The school is open from 9.00–18.00, Monday to Friday.

École Supérieure Art et Design
40 Rue des Teinturiers, 80080 Amiens