Eterne Display
Dynamic, dramatic, and dense with detail, Eterne Display is a compact and springy suite of titling fonts drawn by Kia Tasbihgou. As eye-catching as it is unconventional, its condensed forms have been gracefully articulated with skilled pageantry. Eterne Display began as a direct response to printed magician’s ephemera and reveals its designer’s legerdemain, taking cues from French titling types like Deberny & Peignot’s Elzévir Gras Allongé. Idiosyncratic incisions and gestural twists on convention are deftly deployed to suit editorial contexts in which prestige, pragmatism, and space are at a premium.
Design: Kia Tasbihgou | Kerning: Igino Marini | Engineering: Calvin Kwok
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During the production of the release we discussed an essay by the artist Kita Racaño Ward, which reconsiders time as an active force. Ward uses the metaphor of an apple tree, which reveals itself not merely as an object existing in time, but “as an active timekeeper orchestrating multiple temporal streams.
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Eterne - time study
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Eterne features two distinct-but-related display and text families. As a self-taught type designer, Kia has described his approach as “designating space for a unity between unconventional forms and utility.” Eterne is no exception, and it marks an evolution. With its brusque geometric forms and nervy angles, Eterne’s combination of elemental and sinuous shapes abut white space with an uncommon flourish, glimmering elegantly with a showmanship that belies its functional construction.
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