Dino Dos Santos kommer til Visuelt
Dino dos Santos er utdannet grafisk designer og er grunnleggeren av det portugisiske byrået DSType. DSDType driver med mye – ikke minst typografi. Verden går fremover, men alfabetet er behagelig statisk. Så man skulle tro verden hadde nok fonter å velge blant. Tro igjen. DSTypes fonter brukes over hele verden av flere prestisjetunge aviser, magasiner og selskaper som blant mange andre Libération, The Observer og Geo Magazine.
Dinos typografisk arbeider er også publisert i flere magasiner som Computer Arts, Creative Review, Page og Publiser. Han har tegnet noen bemerkelsesverdige fonter som Andrade, (vinner av Creative Review Type Design Awards) og Ventura, (belønnet med Certificate of Excellence in Type Design av Type Directors Club of New York in 2008) og hans designarbeider er utstilt flere steder rundt om i verden.
What are you working on these days?
Currently I’m working on some custom typefaces, both for corporations and magazines, that I have to keep in secret for now. We have finished a custom type family for the spanish newspaper La Voz de Galicia and we are working to publish a major type family for retail named Acta, with dozens of fonts, that was recently published in the Creative Review Type Annual.
What are your thoughts about participating in the Visuelt-seminars?
I’m looking forward to it. The previously hosted lecturers were just great, so I have big expectations regarding this year’s conference.
What inspires you (a website, a book, a film, a person…)?
Everything can be very inspiring, but my main source of inspiration comes from my collection of old and rare books, specially one of my recent acquisitions, an amazing calligraphy book from 1797 named “Nova Arte de Escrever” by the extraordinary portuguese calligrapher António Jacinto de Araújo. This book will allow me to design a very nice revival that will probably be published next year. Although, if I had to choose I would say that the most inspiring book is The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, while for the movie I would go for Dead in Venice by Luchino Visconti.
