The Studio
Atelier Carvalho Bernau is an independent practise for graphic design, typography and typeface design. We are based in The Hague, The Netherlands.
We design printed matter (mainly books), bespoke and retail typefaces, and identity programmes. With an interdisciplinary network of other committed creative professionals, we develop interactive and web solutions, installations and exhibitions.
If you would like to read an in-depth explanation about how we work and how we think about design, you can do so here.
We have lectured and set workshops at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, the Écal in Lausanne, the Typographic Society in Vienna, the Danish School of Media and Jounalism’s Typo08 conference, the Arnhem ArtEz design school, the MICA in Baltimore, among others.
The People
Susana Carvalho (Portugal, 1979) and Kai Bernau (Germany, 1978) met in The Hague, where they moved to complete the design educations they started in their respective home countries; both graduated from the prestigious Type]Media postgraduate course in Type Design and Typography at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KABK).
The Typefaces
Unless otherwise noted, our typefaces are only available directly from the respective type foundries (CommercialType, House Industries) that released them, others from our friendly distributor Village (soon!), but not directly from us.
The sample texts for showing the typefaces on this website are taken from the following sources:
The Cluetrain Manifesto by Levine, Locke, Searls & Weinberger,
Sentences on Conceptual Art by Sol Lewitt,
What are Master-Pieces and Why Are There So Few of Them by Gertrude Stein,
The Situationist Manifesto by Debord, Jorn, Constant et al.
Published
Wallpaper*, 1/2008, UK
Grafik, 1/2008, UK.
idPure, 12/2007, Switzerland
Graphic magazine, 11/2007, UK
Grafik, 9/2007, UK
AddMagazine, 6/2007, Belgium
SoDA, 10/2006, Switzerland.
Items 6/2006, Netherlands
identity matters, 5,6/2006, Netherlands
Page 4/2006, Germany
Items 5/2005, Netherlands
About this website
On September 4, 2007, we launched the third version of our website, a very simple slideshow. It was designed around some sort of a content management system that would allow us to just drop new content (text files and images) into a folder, to make the process of updating the site as easy as possible. We never did.
This current iteration is built with Indexhibit, a web application envisioned and developed by Jeffery Vaska and Daniel Eatock “to build and maintain an archetypal, invisible website format that combines text, image, movie and sound”, as they say.
This website is online since May 28, 2009 and has been amended with new content 4 times, last on September 7, 2009.
Thank you, Jeffery, Daniel E, Daniel P, Andrej and Frederico!
Photography
Copyright
Everything on this site is Copyright © by Atelier Carvalho Bernau 2005 – 2009.
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