Chicks & Types by Simone Massoni

✦ This is an intimate love story between the two things I'm most passionate about: illustration & typography. If you look closely, this ongoing series of artwork shows more than meets the eye. The pin-up girls are not just designed to exude all the typefaces' qualities, they also tell a story, which goes beyond the simple pairing of colors and a shapes. I had many in-depth chats with the designers who created and drew the characters' font families in order to give a soul to these graceful ladies posing with their typographic soul-mates.

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designer Tobias Frere-Jones // design date 1993-1994 // first publisher Font Bureau

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designer Ramiro Espinoza // design date  2008 // first publisher Re-Type

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design date  1968 // first publisher American Type Founders

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designer Adrian Frutiger // design date  1968 // publisher Linotype

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designer Zuzana Licko // design date  1990 // publisher Emigre

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designer Jonathan Barnbrook // design date  1992 // publisher Emigre

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designer Erik Spiekermann // design date  2003 // publisher Font Font

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designer Hoefler & Frere-Jones // design date  2007 // publisher Hoefler & Co.