ZENGQI GUO 郭增琪

Zengqi Guo is a brand designer, type designer, and educator based in Boston. She works with clients and collaborators on projects across various industries, designing identity systems, publications, exhibitions, websites, and posters.

She holds an MFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA in Environmental Design from the Beijing University of Technology.
 
Resumé is available upon request.
Email: zengqiguo96@gmail.com





Identity
Type Design 
Typography 

Weird & Funny Things
3D Work
Teaching

Drawing
TYPE DESIGN

NewBlackletter is a display typeface inspired by a signwriter’s and letter painter’s sample book in the nineteenth century. I was drawn to one piece of works in the chromolithograph sample that shows a highly decorative Blackletter surrounded by organic ornaments with striking red color because of the increasing popularity of advertising in the nineteenth. In my reinterpretation, NewBlackletter eliminated the complexity while still retaining the Blackletter’s characteristics and increasing its functionality, and establishing a unified standard. NewBlackletter is composed of geometrical shapes, and the circle specifies all the curve parts.

Size:11*17 inch
︎ Display Typeface Blackzoey Specimen