About Dan Reynolds
Born an American, Dan Reynolds is a Font Engineer & Typographic Specialist at Linotype GmbH and an occasional educator. During his first visit to Mainz, Dan decided to become a type designer; after completing a BFA in Graphic Design at RISD, he moved to Europe for good, and has been working with letters ever since. With four other students from the HfG Offenbach, he co-founded the Offenbach Typostammtisch in 2004. Dan holds an MA in Typeface Design with distinction from the English University of Reading, where he was part of the MATD class of 2008. Additionally, Dan is a moderator at Typophile, a contributor to the German-language typography magazine Slanted, and a member of the ATypI, the International Gutenberg-Gesellschaft in Mainz e.V., and the Verein der Freunde und Förderer des Fachbereichs Gestaltung der Hochschule Darmstadt e.V. He currently lives in Berlin.
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Published Typefaces
Mountain
Four-font revival of the old Offenbach Roos & Junge Teutonia typeface; Volcano-Type Foundry, 2006
Morris Sans
Revival and extension of a popular Morris Fuller Benton display typeface for Linotype GmbH, 2007
Three weights, each with two widths; all fonts in OpenType format with small caps, oldstyle figures, etc.
Malabar
New serif typeface for extensive text; designed at the University of Reading in 2008 and released by Linotype GmbH, 2009
Three weights, each with an Italic; all fonts in OpenType format.
Awards
Certificate of Excellence in Type Design for Malabar
Type Directors Club of New York
TDC² 2009 Competition
Silver Award for Malabar
Original Typeface category, European Design Awards competition
ED-Awards 2009
Malabar awarded the Federal German Design Prize in gold for 2010
Gold beim Designpreis der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 2010, Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie und Rat für Formgebung
German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, German Design Council
Teaching
Fachbereich Gestaltung, Hochschule Darmstadt
Department of Design, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, Germany
- Darstellungsmethoden III/IV: Schriftgestaltung (Typeface Design), Summer Semester 2009
- Darstellungsmethoden III/IV: Schriftgestaltung (Typeface Design), Winter Semester 2009–2010
- Darstellungsmethoden III/IV: Schriftgestaltung (Typeface Design), Summer Semester 2010
FSG Freie Schule für Gestaltung Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg
- Typografie, Summer Semester 2010
Workshops
9. Tage der Typografie
ver.di Institut für Bildung, Medien und Kunst
Lage-Hörste, Germany, June 7–10, 2007
Logo design workshop (with Franck Jalleau and Jean-Baptiste Levée)
École Estienne
Paris, France, March 19, 2009
On the selection of newspaper typefaces
HBK Saar
Saarbrücken, Germany, November 17, 2009
Lectures
Typo.Graphic.Beirut 2005
Lebanese American University
Beirut, Lebanon, April 13–15, 2005
AdPrint 2006
Brasov, Romania, February 2006
BrandCamp 2006
Bucharest, Romania, November 22–23, 2006
3rd ICTVC (International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication)
University of Macedonia
Thessaloniki, Greece, June 18–24, 2007
5 Uhr T
Academy of Visual Arts
Frankfurt, Germany, February 18, 2009
Platinum 2009: Linotype–École Estienne
Institut National du Patrimoine
Paris, France, April 10, 2009
TypeCon 2009
Atlanta/Georgia, USA, July 14–19, 2009
Typografische Gesellschaft München
Munich, Germany, April 20, 2010
TYPO-Berlin 2010
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Berlin, Germany, May 20–22, 2010
4th ICTVC (International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication)
University of Nicosia
Nicosia, Cyprus, June 17–19, 2010
Type Talks
House of the Lords of Kunštát
Brno, Czech Republic, June 21, 2010
ATypI PreFace 2010
Dublin Institute of Technology
Dublin, Ireland, September 8–9, 2010
ATypI 2010
Dublin Castle
Dublin, Ireland, September 9–12, 2010
Published Articles
“Inside the library at the Gutenberg Museum”
Linotype Matrix, Vol. 4 Issue 2
Bad Homburg, Germany (Spring 2006)
Republished on I Love Typography as “The library of the Gutenberg Museum,” Feburary 28, 2010
“Mesquite, Rosewood: Where did these come from?”
Slanted, Western Fonts, Issue 2
Karlsruhe, Germany (May 2006)
“Farewell Gill”
Slanted, Handmade Custom Fonts, Issue 3
Karlsruhe, Germany (October 2006)
“Geometric type and where it comes from”
Slanted, Geometrics. Porn., Issue 7
Karlsruhe, Germany (March 2009)
“Typography tomorrow”
D+, Volume 5
Seoul, Korea (January–February 2010)
“Create a text font in FontLab”
Computer Arts Projects, Issue 137
Bath, UK (June 2010)
Press Coverage
»Das 27. Zeichen – Das Versal-ß soll die typografische Landschaft bereichern: Viele Typografen finden diese Initiative sinvoll, andere halten davon aber recht wenig.«
PAGE. January 2008. Pages 52–54.
“type… four more emerging talents”
Allan Haley for STEP Inside Design. January–February 2008. Pages 106–111.
“Open brief”
Anna Richardson for Design Week. November 26, 2009. Pages 14–15.
»›Lebendig wirkend neue Wege suchen‹ – LT Malabar von Dan Reynolds, neue Satzschrift für das Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 2010/11«
Article by Prof. Ralf de Jong in Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 2010. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. Pages 237–244.
Online Articles of Note
The e-a-t exhibition: A selection of contemporary Czech and Slovak type design
Typotheque.com
October 2004
Review of Fred Smeijers Counterpunch
iLoveTypography.com
December 2007
Review of Martin Majoor, Jan Middendorp, and Sébastien Morlighem’s José Mendoza y Almeida
iLoveTypography.com
April 2010
Exhibitions
Schrift in Form
Klingspor Museum
Offenbach, Germany, September 3–26, 2008
55th annual typography exhibition
Worldwide
Traveling exhibition of the Type Directors Club, 2009
Winners of the Communications Design Category, Federal German Design Prize 2010
Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt
Frankfurt, Germany, February 13–March 7, 2010
Schrift in Form: Bangkok International Typographic Symposium
Cadson Demak
Bangkok, Thailand, August 19–October 31, 2010
