Shadow & Bone Told Through Bely
Typographical Playing Cards
Red Dot: Brands & Communication Design Award 2022 Winner.
IDA Design Awards Honorable Mentions 2022 (Print Categories: Packaging and Other Print Design).
IDA Design Awards Honorable Mentions 2022 (Print Categories: Packaging and Other Print Design).
To start off my graduate program, I designed typographical playing cards based on the show/book series “Shadow and Bone” by author Leigh Bardugo. The typeface I chose to analyze is Bely, created by designer Roxane Gataud. This font is part of the TypeTogether foundry since 2014, and has won multiple awards and honors. Throughout the deck, I used elements of Shadow and Bone to visually represent how Bely is constructed and how its anatomy makes it such an outstanding typeface. See the research below.
(Mockups from Freepik, MockupWorld and Behance).