Ripley is an interrogation about optimized legibility on-screen environment that develops the idea of transposing the legibility rules of a body text from print to the new media. Ripley is a mix of historical and contemporary shapes in this new serif design. Coming to life by Massara David over his diploma project from ECAL.

Supervisor: Aurèle Sack (CH) Guy Meldem (CH)

Assistant: Pietro Alberti (CH)

Every fonts here possess a commercial license and it's strictly illegal to use it without it.
For a comercial project or any personal promoting, you'll need the commercial licence of the font.
The font who possess a free trial download still don't let you the right to use it for a comercial project or any personal promoting. All of these font are directly created exclusively by myself. If you’d like to buy one of these fonts or know more about it, feel free to ask : massara.david@gmail.com

This project was made during the period of study in Lausanne University of Art and Design (ECAL)

Increasingly forgotten over the generations, jazz has grown and evolved simultaneously with the social and political development of the United States, to the point of becoming its national music. From the first African slaves to the electrified sound of jazz fusion, through the melancholy of the Blues, the excitement of New Orleans, the roaring years, the young wolves of be-bop, the bermuda shorts and flower shirts of California to the rebellion of the 60s. This book portrays the origins of jazz, its relationship with America, as well as their consequence within his iconography.

Format: 220 × 320 mm

Pages: 230

Paper: Freelife Country 250g
Cyclus Recylcled Paper 90g

Binding: Perfect Binding

This project was made during the period of study in Lausanne University of Art and Design (ECAL)

Rammellzee (stylized RAMM:ΣLL:ZΣΣ, pronounced "Ram: Ell: Zee"; late 1960 – June 27, 2010) was a visual artist, gothic futurist "graffiti writer," painter, performance artist, hip hop musician, art theoretician, and sculptor from New York City. This Book contains a retrospection of his work, as well as various interview of him, his friends, collaborations, manifest ect...

Format: 165 × 240 mm

Pages: 156

Paper: Munken Print White 1.5 100g
Condat Perigord 125g
Multi Art Silk 115g

Binding: Swissbind

Supervisor: Gilles Gavillet (CH), Jonathan Hares (UK)

This project was made during the period of study in Lausanne University of Art and Design (ECAL)

Nation Grotesk is a bespoke typeface designed to be use as a identity system for airport. Contrasting with dynamic stroke and contemporary feature than his predecessors. Nation is currently a work in progress and most of the glyph are still in process.

Release: Unknow

Supervisor: Aurèle Sack (CH)

Every fonts here possess a commercial license and it's strictly illegal to use it without it.
For a comercial project or any personal promoting, you'll need the commercial licence of the font.
The font who possess a free trial download still don't let you the right to use it for a comercial project or any personal promoting. All of these font are directly created exclusively by myself. If you’d like to buy one of these fonts or know more about it, feel free to ask : massara.david@gmail.com

This project was made during the period of study in Lausanne University of Art and Design (ECAL)

Undertow is the magazine who give a new fresh point of view of the fishing world, by modernized the genre and having a new visual approach on photography and culture. Each issue is focusing on a country and all their different aspect and theire perception of the fishing practice.

Format: 165 × 235 mm

Pages: 85

Paper: Mignot Satin 150gr

Binding: Perfect Binding

Supervisor: François Rappo (CH), Anouk Schneider (CH)

Co-worker: Baptiste Lecanu (FR)

This project was made during the period of study in Lausanne University of Art and Design (ECAL)

The bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima in two distinc view, from the first side with America. From a compilation of archive, testimony, perception of the events and the schema from the bombs (Little Boy and Fat Guy). On the other side the effect of this consequence on Japan.

Preview: Here

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Supervisor: Harry Bloch (CH)

This project was made during the period of study in Lausanne University of Art and Design (ECAL)

A data compilation and visual interpretation from the 1998’s comedy film The Big Lebowsky, written, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. It stars Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski. This Poster is separated into fourth chapter (Bowling, Driving, Phone Call, Action) who’s 15 different recurring information is brought during the movie. More than hundred data is compeleted together.

Format: 594 × 841 mm

Print: Plotter

Paper: Blueback

Supervisor: Angello Benedetto (CH)

This project was made during the period of study in Lausanne University of Art and Design (ECAL)

Falsch Grotesk* is a sans serif typeface specially designed for typesetting. The idea behind the font is to economise the space but to keep the legibility, beauty, simplicity as his best. Falsch is currently a work in progress and most of the glyph are still in process.

Release: Unknow

Supervisor: Robert Hubert (CH)

*The font name is not confirmed yet

Every fonts here possess a commercial license and it's strictly illegal to use it without it.
For a comercial project or any personal promoting, you'll need the commercial licence of the font.
The font who possess a free trial download still don't let you the right to use it for a comercial project or any personal promoting. All of these font are directly created exclusively by myself. If you’d like to buy one of these fonts or know more about it, feel free to ask : massara.david@gmail.com

This project was made during the period of study in Lausanne University of Art and Design (ECAL)

Symbols as alphabet is a visual studies about the retransmission of the Latin alphabet from different symbols. The book compiling 36 different languages and more than 312 different symbols. The studies was made to develop the interest about typography as well for organic and geometric shapes. Symbols as alphabet explores their rich and fascinating representation, and presents, the breadth of their beauty. A specimen of linguistic curiosities and also a forms delights.

Format: 110 × 170 mm

Pages: 64

Paper: Yellow 100gr

Binding: Perfect Binding

This project was made during the period of study in Lausanne University of Art and Design (ECAL)

The Floating University Berlin is a temporary campus built on 2018 on a huge concrete pool for rainwater in Tempelhof. As an artificial island, the distances itself spatially and programmatically from the urban dynamics, thus allowing a different perspective on urban processes. It opens up a space that also invites those to think along, who suspect that they can not themselves influence urban development. The FUB is an international place of exchange on strategies of spatial production, but also a facility of learning from each other as well as a laboratory for urban experiments.

The main challenge was how to design something that the client can use it wihtout the help of the designer. The project will advence without for us the possiblity to work on it. As result we created a toolbox compiling many rules and catalogue for them to be able to work from inside. Based on the idea of a laboratory of creation, we decided to generated texture, images, forms inspiring by the science laboratory elements. Mixing the elements as zoom, gride, measurements, to give a very structured system and fluide at the same time.

Supervisor: Jonas Wandeler (CH)

Co-worker: Baptiste Lecanu (FR)

This project was made during the period of study in Lausanne University of Art and Design (ECAL)

Atlas of scandal is two books showing the numerous scandals of Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzō Abe. The first one deals with the censorship currently important in Japan, mixing with illegibility of texts and images. Instead, the second one is the uncensored version, smaller, more private and contrasting with the first one by its legibility in the text, image or binding. The texts for each scandals are based on multiple articles from different journals, the point’s to show how with the same informations, the media from different country use it to reveal or hide the contain. All scandals and articles are used chronologically.

Supervisor: Diego Bontognali (CH)

This project was made during the period of study in Lausanne University of Art and Design (ECAL)

Inspired by the football supporters "Ultra", from the idea of a groupe can exprime the love as much as the violence. Using the greek mythology to symbolise the two aspects, The Romance part use the Pegasus, mythical winged divine stallion, and the Cerberus as his counter part, the monstrous multi-headed dog that guards the gates of the Underworld to prevent the dead from leaving. This Scarf was made as a project for the ECALXMARKET 2018.

Romance & Violence Scarf (50) : 30CHF / 25€ (SOLD OUT)

Co-worker: Damas Froissart (FR)

Seingalt is a Neo-classical typeface family designed for contemporary typography comprisingof 6 styles: Regular, Medium, Bold, Display, Display-Medium, Display-Bold. Available for more than 150 languages. More than 380 characters including uppercase, lowercase, accents, numbers, ligatures, contextual ligatures, punctuations, mathematical, fractions, symbols and currency. An alternative version without stroke is available too.

Seingalt took is name from the pen name of Giacomo Girolamo Casanova when he wrote his memoirs. This name reflect the philosophy of the font. Taking a strong influence from the fashion and luxury industry, The massive contrast is perfect especially for use in headlines and on posters.

Commercial license / 1-3 Computers desktop license

Seingalt Regular: 45CHF / 40€

Seingalt Medium: 45CHF / 40€

Seingalt Bold: 45CHF / 40€

Seingalt Display-Regular: 45CHF / 40€

Seingalt Display-Medium: 45CHF / 40€

Seingalt Display-Bold: 45CHF / 40€

Seingalt Full Font Family: 230CHF / 200€

Seingalt Trial (Regular): Here

Seingalt Specimen: Here

Every fonts here possess a commercial license and it's strictly illegal to use it without it.
For a comercial project or any personal promoting, you'll need the commercial licence of the font.
The font who possess a free trial download still don't let you the right to use it for a comercial project or any personal promoting. All of these font are directly created exclusively by myself. If you’d like to buy one of these fonts or know more about it, feel free to ask : massara.david@gmail.com

The god of freshwater and the sea ! Neptune is a typeface inspired by the aesthetics of the violence of Ancient Rome with contemporary influences. It features two variants: a standard set which is a clean and clear sans serif, and an alternative who merged the two influences to create a sophisticated contemporary look.

Perfect for usage in posters, logotypes and headlines. The Neptune is a free personal utilisation font and was most of the time selected among the best typography of 2014.

Commercial license / All for One

Neptune: 50CHF / 45€

Neptune Trial: Here

Neptune Specimen: Here

Every fonts here possess a commercial license and it's strictly illegal to use it without it.
For a comercial project or any personal promoting, you'll need the commercial licence of the font.
The font who possess a free trial download still don't let you the right to use it for a comercial project or any personal promoting. All of these font are directly created exclusively by myself. If you’d like to buy one of these fonts or know more about it, feel free to ask : massara.david@gmail.com