Matthew Tweddle

Creative Director · Co-founder · Founder

5 articles · Feb 2017Aug 2025

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Quotes

  • The brief was to connect with new audiences without alienating the core.
  • The new wordmark is more distinctive and carries an attitude that can live up to the strategy.
  • There’s a timeless quality to the typefaces that’s extremely important for a product that’s going to exist in people’s homes for decades.
  • The Institute sees philosophy as a force for good – a way to help people think more deeply about life and the world around them.
  • We explored hundreds of ideas, but kept coming back to this one. It felt effortless – simple, elegant and distinctive.
  • A well-chosen type pairing does a lot of heavy lifting. We needed something that could shift tone – academic but not stuffy, warm but not informal.
  • Across applications, Tobias lends a bold and confident voice to headlines.
  • Colour became a way to further embed BIRI in their regions.
  • We wanted to help students to develop the skills to be able to create their own fully functioning modular typeface.
  • We chose to evolve the wordmark from Helvetica to Graphik by Commercial Type, which is better suited to digital applications.

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