TDC Awards

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2025 TDC Awards - Type Design

Seasummer

Agency Studio Céline Hurka / The Hague

Client Adrian Pourviseh / Avant Verlag

Category

Single Axis Type Family (ie weight or width)

Annual ID

TDC71_TD016

Seasummer is a variable handwriting font with a single axis. The typeface was collaboratively designed by Céline Hurka and Stefaniia Bodnia. The project originally drew inspiration from the handwriting of illustrator Adrian Pourviseh, found in his diaries. In 2021, Adrian spent several weeks in the Mediterranean, participating in the rescue of refugees with Sea-Watch E.V.. While at sea, he processed these traumatic experiences at Europe's deadliest borders through his writing, later transforming them into a graphic novel. The novel, titled "Das Schimmern der See," was published in 2023 by Avant Verlag and designed by Moritz Schottmüller and Calvin Kudufia. was specifically developed for this graphic novel, aiming to capture the emotional journey of its writer from tranquility to intensity through its variable axis. The typeface has a large characters with Latin and Cyrillic language support, 5 alternates per letter, ligatures and symbols. It is available on Future Fonts.

2025 Awards

Total Points: 20

TDC Winner

Credits

Type Foundry

Studio Céline Hurka / The Hague

Creative Director

Celine Hurka

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