Laura Meseguer Studio
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Laura Meseguer Studio

Custom Type Design & Typography in Barcelona, She/her

Looking for custom type design projects and collaborations in the field of typography, design and publishing

2 months ago

About

Laura Meseguer Studio is run by Laura Meseguer, a distinguished type and brand designer based in Barcelona. For over 20 years, she has produced custom lettering and type for brands, cultural institutions, and publishers. She has worked with clients such as TOUS, Typeform, Het Parool, Ajuntament de Barcelona and Google, among others. Craftsmanship and collaboration are the hallmarks of her practice, imbuing traditional techniques with an experimental twist. Rigor and joy are her animating principles.

Laura has loved letters since childhood, influenced by their family’s printing background. She studied graphic design and became a professional type designer and teacher after completing Type and Media at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, The Netherlands. Laura is a proud founder of Type-Ø-Tones, one of the first digital type foundries in Spain. From 2017 till 2023, Laura was a board member of ATypI, an international non-profit organization dedicated to typography and typeface design whose annual conference has taken place every year since 1957. She’s a founding member of Alphabettes, a showcase for lettering, typography, and type design that supports and promotes the work of all women and nonbinary people in their fields.

Laura has been a typography and type design teacher for more than 15 years, some of her Master’s students have become accomplished professionals today. Since 2019, she has been the academic director of Tipo-g, an educational project in type design that gathers together Barcelona’s type design scene with future professionals. She also gives lectures and workshops around the world. Her typefaces are available on Type-Ø-Tones, several of which have won certificates of excellence from the Type Directors Club of New York and the Laus Prizes from the ADG-FAD in Spain. In 2018 she got the Premio Gràffica in recognition to her career “for paving a path in the typographic world in Spain.”

Projects

2024

The design studio Buenaventura, from Granada, and Laura Meseguer worked together to redesign MR. BOHO, a new identity with an inuit spirit.

The proposal is based on creating a customized typeface, developed in collaboration, to establish a unique and exclusive visual language. The inspiration came from the roots of eye protection. Delving into the history of the first tools designed for this purpose, we discovered fascinating stories of ingenuity and creativity, such as those of the Inuit people. They devised clever ways to protect their eyes from the sun and its reflection on the snow. During our exploration of their culture, we immersed ourselves in the writing system used in Inuktitut, structured as an abugida.

Awards

2018

Los Premios Gràffica son la máxima celebración de la cultura visual realizada en España. El funcionamiento de los premios es muy fácil, si bien dista del planteamiento de otros certámenes de diseño.

A los Premios Gràffica no se puede presentar nadie pero todos participan. No existen cuotas, ni inscripciones… Cualquiera puede ser nominado para recibir el premio. Proyectos y carreras profesionales desarrolladas en España.

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