
Public Foundry Catalog Now Available
Available now Public Foundry: the catalog based on the work of HMCT 2020 Typographers-in-Residence: Joshua Trees, Yvan Martinez, and Krister Olsson. To purchase a copy, contact Draw Down Books. In 2019, Google’s Artists and Machine Intelligence program granted the three a Focused Research Award to build Public Foundry, the first type foundry powered by the public using artificial intelligence. Although the digital revolution is commonly thought to have democratized the field of typography by making computer fonts publicly available, digital typeface design remains an esoteric practice. At the same time, public lettering and signage are being erased and homogenised