12/12/2006

Corey Holms Brea Winall Commercial Font



Toying with antiquity in two realms, Brea uses primitive dot matrix, the first electronic print, as a medium for expressing a once intensely manual Old English hand. These incongruous historical allusions update the Middle Ages, but places them squarely in the early '80s.

About the designer:
Melding contradiction is a way of lifestyle for Corey Holms, once a biology student, now a graphic designer with a compulsive bent. This juxtaposition coalesces into an imperfect union, never homogenous, often at odds with itself. From that tension he derives his inspiration.
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