Mark Gowing, Australia

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Mark Gowing is an artist and typographer living and working on Gadigal/Wangal country, Sydney, Australia. Gowing is the founder and director of The Letters, a type company that specialises in the development of expressive fonts, and was founder of the groundbreaking arts publisher Formist Editions as well as the seminal Longform Editions sound art project. Through his highly acclaimed studio practice Gowing has produced creative projects for leading organisations and institutions with a passionate focus on the arts. His typographic work has been awarded and exhibited globally by institutions including the Alliance Graphique Internationale, New York Type Directors Club and Tokyo Type Directors Club. He has been honoured with solo exhibitions at the 22nd International Poster Biennale in Warsaw, Poland; the Divieto d’Affissione in Turin, Italy; and Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Gowing’s work is held in numerous institutional collections including the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, USA.

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    Mark Gowing, Australia (2013)

    Mark Gowing is an artist and typographer living and working on Gadigal/Wangal country, Sydney, Australia. Gowing is the founder and director of The Letters, a type company that specialises in...

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    Mark Gowing, Australia (2013)

    Mark Gowing is an artist and typographer living and working on Gadigal/Wangal country, Sydney, Australia. Gowing is the founder and director of The Letters, a type company that specialises in the development of expressive fonts, and was founder of the groundbreaking arts publisher Formist Editions as well as the seminal Longform Editions sound art project. Through his highly acclaimed studio practice Gowing has produced creative projects for leading organisations and institutions with a passionate focus on the arts. His typographic work has been awarded and exhibited globally by institutions including the Alliance Graphique Internationale, New York Type Directors Club and Tokyo Type Directors Club. He has been honoured with solo exhibitions at the 22nd International Poster Biennale in Warsaw, Poland; the Divieto d’Affissione in Turin, Italy; and Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Gowing’s work is held in numerous institutional collections including the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, USA.

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    Mark Gowing: Inside the Oblong

    (2021)

    • John L. Walters

    Formist Editions

    Mark Gowing: Inside the Oblong collects twenty years of posters by the esteemed designer and is a portrait of his uncompromising process. Over 288 pages the book explores the rhythms, proportion and dynamics of the oblong space that is the poster. The work is divided into five broad categories: Commercial, Exhibition, Film, Music and Practice. The posters display an approach to type, image and pattern that is immediately recognisable as Gowing’s and no-one else’s.

    Outside Material: The Cover Art of Preservation Music

    (2017)

    • Dan Rule

    Formist Editions

    As the work of designer Mark Gowing, the artwork for Preservation Music reflects his commitment to experimentation in typography, photography and graphic abstraction, all with an eye to effective communication. Every CD cover employs folded paper as package, offering the listener, or user, an intimate and tactile experience. Consequently, Outside Material’s image-drenched pages present music as something more than sound – these creations are material objects to see, hold and cherish.

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