Exhibition design for Sonic Arcade, shaping space with sound, an exhibition at the MAD Museum of Arts and Design in New York by the Studio of Chad Kouri.
Exhibition design for Sonic Arcade, shaping space with sound, an exhibition at the MAD Museum of Arts and Design in New York by the Studio of Chad Kouri.
Papier Machine, the first booklet of interactive electronic paper toys.
Exhibition design for Sonic Arcade, shaping space with sound, an exhibition at the MAD Museum of Arts and Design in New York by the Studio of Chad Kouri.
MAD Sans is the blue collar workhorse of the MAD font family. It was built up from skeleton forms of found AutoCAD material, which became the structure of the Light weights. The family was then expanded with Regular and Bold weights with matching Italics using the Light weights as a framework for the expansion.
↓ MORE INFO ↓Following these ‘Open’ weights, a Fill version became established, opening up another interesting side to the family. It has an air of familiarity mixed with a certain roughness that works in both larger and smaller sizes.
During his time at the Werkplaats Typografie, Dries was among CAD drawings and a fascination for these program’s inherent typeface arose. These two type families are a reinterpretation that tries to make the most of their grid-based nature — they are a tribute to historical and forgotten form.
MAD is an acronym for Machine Aided Design, a direct reference to CAD (Computer-Aided Design), which reveals the typeface’s starting point. Since early printing of CAD plans were done with plotters that drew every single line of the instruction, special typefaces had to be designed for the dimensions and other information. These were constructed out of lines and not outlines of shapes. With their rendering dictated by the resolution of the output device, their final form was not fixed.
The family was later expanded with a Black weights due to popular demand in Q1 of 2018. This family has also been made commercially available through Colophon Foundry.
Mad Sans Light
Mad Sans Light Italic
Mad Sans Regular
Mad Sans Regular Italic
Mad Sans Bold
Mad Sans Bold Italic
Mad Sans Black
Mad Sans Black Italic
Mad Sans Fill Light
Mad Sans Fill Light Italic
Mad Sans Fill Regular Italic
Mad Sans Fill Regular Italic
Mad Sans Fill Bold
Mad Sans Fill Bold Italic
Mad Sans Fill Black
Mad Sans Fill Black Italic
A list of all fonts that are available, either as retail fonts or béta licenses on demand:
- DateNameOutletState
- 2023 Cru Colophon Foundry Retail Font
- 2019 Pep Colophon Foundry Retail Font
- 2019 Nib Colophon Foundry Retail Font
- 2017 Mad Serif Colophon Foundry Retail Font
- 2017 Mad Sans Colophon Foundry Retail Font
- 2010 PDU Colophon Foundry Retail Font
- 2008 Ultra Black N/A Unpublished Béta
