Akira is a famous font designer, he comes from Japan and has won a lot of prizes in font design. He was a Japanese font designer, but after he worked in a Japanese for six years, he suddenly thought that learn English letters font is very important, then he came to the UK for letters design study, of course now, he is well-known in font design area. Until now, he has worked with Hermann Zapf and Adrian Frutiger.
I have read some interview of him when he came to China to having a speech with chinese students, he told us that the point of font design is to keep balance between white and black. In his interview, he said that lots of students and designers use compasses and rulers to help their design, but Akira Kobayashi said we should use flat pen back original writing. Understand how to write a letter is important, letters are come from writing, thus, every designers should learn the skills of writing, understand some specials from letters.
His designs are really popular today, here are are some examples:
The font design above is Magnifico, it is divided into daytime and nighttime, it is inspired from the letters on notes in 19th century. This kind of font is use for small size poster.
I think his design is a evidence of Hermann Zapf's words, every font design should be based on the former font.
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