Dinamo — Basel, Switzerland

“For almost all of our designs we’re driven by an interest in how typefaces can be produced and used. Favorit Lining, for example, we came up with when a project needed an Italic but the deadline did not allow us to design one in time. Underlining felt like a valid alternative and this led us to realise that you can connect the underline directly with the design of the letters and that its share can even react depending on whether a letter is sitting at the beginning, the middle or the end of a word.”

Dinamo is a Swiss type-design agency offering retail and bespoke typefaces, design software, research and consultancy. Members of Dinamo are visiting teachers at various art academies and have been invited for workshops and lectures by educational institutions internationally. In 2017, Dinamo was awarded the Swiss Design Award by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture and, since 2018, Johannes Breyer and Fabian Harb have been members of the AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale).