Lab Antiqua wins an ISTD Excellence Award

We’re happy to announce that our work with Lab Antiqua won a Certificate of Excellence at this year’s ISTD International Typographic Awards. 

To celebrate our 20th anniversary in 2018, Stockholm Design Lab decided to create a signature typeface inspired by our own wordmark. Designed in 2008, the SDL logotype consists of three serif letters characterised by large, flat serifs and a refined high contrast, and a striking S with a flat top and bottom standing firm on the baseline. 

Those distinctive traits became the starting point for an elegant design containing hints of venerable precursors like Morris Fuller Benton’s Century Expanded and Bodoni, and De Vinne by Gustav F. Schroeder. Lab Antiqua feels perfectly at home in magazine spreads, on covers, and other editorial projects, as well as on eye-catching posters, in signage projects, and on packaging for fashion items and beauty products.

The typeface was developed in collaboration with Letters From Sweden.