Nguyen Gobber

Poster for the live event “Salon skug” in December 2024, organised by the Austrian subculture magazine skug

What is the meaning of the five-pointed star? ⭐️

Read about it in our new essay “Content and Form”: nguyengobber.com/insights/content-and-form

Does graphic design really come down to creating the “right” form for a given content?

In our essay we challenge this established view and explore how meaning is shaped through references, connections, and context—and what this entails for design.

Read: nguyengobber.com/insights/content-and-form

Graphic score designed for the artwork “Safe Harbor” by Russell Perkins.

Read more at nguyengobber.com/projects/safe-harbor

A charming snake signet designed for the visual identity of fashion designer Ali Zedtwitz.

The publication “Beyond Concrete. Strategies for a Post-Fossil Baukultur” deals with how we will plan and build in the future. As resources are finite, the building industry must adapt and aim for more sustainable solutions beyond the professional comfort zones.

More at nguyengobber.com

Nguyen Gobber has taken a 1960s design challenge and turned it into a typeface Inspired by an exercise in Armin Hofmann’s Graphic Design Manual, the Hofmann typeface is built around a four-by-four dot grid.

Well, that’s kind of a very shallow comment, wouldn’t you agree? All comments based on frustration are going to look awkward. We kind of like that you’re trying to contribute something, but in the end: this is sad.

Anyway, the design explores a grid system by Armin Hofmann (1960s). More here:

Construction details of the letter F from our typeface Hofmann

What if Josef Müller-Brockmann had used a different grid—or no grid at all—on page 98 of “Grid Systems in Graphic Design”?

(Layouts created during an investigation into grids in 2019)

Kind words about our Hofmann typeface on It’s Nice That:

“[…] there’s also something to be said for how successfully the duo has taken something rooted in mid-20th century Swiss design, and developed it into something contemporary […]”

www.itsnicethat.com/articles/ngu...