All the fonts I have…

Project looking into sharing and copyright issues in digital age. For this project I was researching type design copyrights and the gray areas of designer ethics. Before looking at how other people infringe copyrights, I decided to do a confession. It's time for some dirty laundry of design world.

I started collecting type when I got given a pack of typefaces bought by my friends previous employers. As a kid (that was 4-5 years ago) who likes type design, I wanted to explore the wast type universe. By the time I started university I had collected around 19 thousand different fonts. And not in the good way, as I don't own the license to most of them. Although I have "obtained" so much, my intention never was to pirate for commercial gain, it was a way for a kid from Eastern Europe to learn from great masters.

This makes me want to ask couple of questions: Why so frequently graphic designers scream about copyright issues, while infringing type designers copyright themselves? Should we revert to the non-digital era ways and use only handful quality typefaces? Or a new, more democratically priced model for type distribution should be found?

Six A0 posters on tracing paper, to be looked at separately or overlaid on top of each other.

If you have something to say about this theme, I'd gladly hear from you.

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