»Fellineseke Fonts« Published by the Professorship of Typography and Font Design available in the Bauhaus.Atelier

Meaningful fonts and corresponding posters were to be designed based on the film's three main characters. Each student selected distinctive features from the characters and translated them into typographical form. The sensitive, naive Gelsomina, friendly Matto, hovering above it all, and the harsh egocentric Zampano, as well as their lives as travelling circus performers, served as models.

Under the supervision of Prof. Stefanie Schwartz and the support of tutors Antonia Dieti and Lena Vogel, students created a wide variety of fonts during the intensive three-day workshop. From rigid, object-like constructions to the sweepingly playful, the new fonts cover a broad spectrum of forms that are a literal reflection of Fellini’s film. The work was done in both digital and analogue form, using and combining various tools such as pens, strings, scissors, paper, Photoshop, Illustrator, Glyphs, Fontlab and FontForge.

A team of students created a publication to present the results of the project. Henry Boebst, Emelie Brockhaus, Emily Grawitter, Leoni Hommel, Johanna Mehner, Hannah Röbisch and Vivien Sorrentino created a document over 100 pages long, the cover of which already clearly illustrates the spectrum of content. Each font is represented by one letter. Inside the book, complete character sets are printed on a double page together with application examples.

The inside of the book was digitally printed and the cover was screen printed in the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar printing workshop. The publication is available for purchase at the Bauhaus.Atelier on the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar campus.

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