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Juliasys Type Studio – Forms, Fonts, Icons

Sample of Juliasys Type Studio typefaces

Geographically you find Juliasys Type Studio right beside one of the highlights of Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg, the Kulturbrauerei. What we are doing there is quite simple: working hard to get quality and humor together in type & identity design – and always adding some unique Finnish-Russian spice. We create identities, icons and typefaces, do custom and retail projects and cooperate with partners in different corners of the world. We publish fonts and icons for our own library, or develop them directly for clients. Some of our custom design clients are Beiersdorf Hamburg, Freshbooks Toronto, Monotype Germany, Mars and Waitrose London, Remes & Packart Helsinki and Harpers Publishers New York. One of our hallmarks are multifeatured scriptfonts based on the handwriting of authors and artists – like that of Franz Kafka, Emily Dickinson and Jean Sibilius. FF Mister K, our award winning Kafka typeface, presents itself in detail on its own website ffmisterk.com.

Sample of Juliasys Type Studio fonts

Our specialities

type design / custom typeface development / font extension / icons and icon systems / font modification / logo refinement / extension of language support and writing systems / retail fonts / typographic and information design / development of visual style / corporate design

Sample of Juliasys Type Studio team

Julia Sysmäläinen

Julia Sysmäläinen is a designer and philologist with Finnish and Russian roots. She is an experienced corporate and type designer and has worked for (and with) Erik Spiekermann for many years in his various offices - from United Designer Network to Edenspiekermann Amsterdam and Berlin, with clients such as the American Academy, Bosch, CBS-Holland, Deutsche Bahn, Gravis, MEAG, Ottobock, Paulmann, Sentres, visitBerlin, Winestein and others. She is constantly on the move between Germany and Finland.

Jürgen Sanides

Jürgen Sanides is a visual designer and a natural scientist. Biophysics and biochemistry have become important sources and a help in many of his design projects. At Juliasys he is in charge of font back end and OpenType coding. Jürgen has been a visiting teacher in different institutes of art and design in Russia, Germany and in the Baltic region.

Toshiya Izumo

Toshiya Izumo is a communication designer from Tokyo specializing on branding, pictographic imagery and type design.

Paul Thiele

Paul Thiele is an interaction designer and musician. In spite of the fact that an unfriendly horse had bitten off one of his ears during childhood – it was sewn on again a couple of hours later – Paul has a nearly absolute pitch. At Juliasys he takes care of everything connected to sound and the internet. His music you’ll find on SoundCloud and his works on his website.

Working Together

Alphabet Type / Alphabettes / Art. Lebedev Studio / Buchstabenmuseum, Berlin / DaltonMaag / Elmwood / Erik Spiekermann / FontFont / MetaDesign / Monotype / Remes & Packart / Saatchi & Saatchi / Sonja Knecht / Susanna Dulkinys /

References & Clients

American Academy in Berlin, Art Basel, Beiersdorf, Berghof, Bosch, Canto, Deutsche Bahn, EM Zurich, Edenspiekerman, FontShop, FreshBooks, Gravis, HarperCollins Publishers, Jungheinrich, Kravt, Le Monde Diplomatique, Liberty Global, Liebherr International, Mars, MEAG, Mendix, Messe Frankfurt, Monotype, Nivea, Ottobock, Paulmann, RaboDirect, Red Bull, Robeco, RWE, Saarioinen, Sentres, Siemens, Škoda, Study Buddhism, Target, Telecom, TEDx, TCHO, visitBerlin, Waitrose, WineStein, VDE, VDV – Verband Deutscher Verkehrsunternehmen, V-Zug, Wolters Kluwer, ZDF.

Contact

info{at}juliasys{dot}com