Paul Robb

Italy | Total Awards: 20 | Total Score: 79

Paul Robb is a Creative Director and Type designer with over 30 years of experience, and is a Professor of Graphic design at the University of Perugia, and a Professor on the MA Brand design course of the Academia of Perugia. Since 2000 he is Creative Director for Salt&Pepper an award-winning multidisciplinary contemporary graphic design studio focused on transforming brands and businesses. Expressiveness and authenticity are the basis of his work which is completed with a balanced fusion of creative design and technology. In 2020 he started S6 Foundry which develops creative fonts by designers for designers. Based in Italy they are an independent contemporary digital type foundry crafting retail typefaces for use in digital and print applications. His work has been exhibited throughout the world and his poster designs are held in permanent museum collections. He regularly collaborates with film directors, advertising agencies, institutions, and type designers around the world.

Paul Robb Specializations and Capabilities

Category	Ranking	Awards	Score
Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design	3	17	67
Print and Published Media Design	11	2	7
Advertising, Marketing and Communication Design	16	1	5

Statistical Data on Paul Robb

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Award Categories

Overall Statistics

Total Awards: 20
Total Score: 79
Average Score: 3.95
Top Categories:
- 17 awards in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Worldwide.
- 2 awards in Print and Published Media Design Worldwide.
- 1 awards in Advertising, Marketing and Communication Design Worldwide.

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Featured Award-Winning Designs of Paul Robb

Sabbioni Branding

Sabbioni Branding

Primary Function

Promotional Branding

Description

Grafiche Sabbioni required a new brand position to celebrate the firm's 60th year anniversary. Salt&Pepper worked with the company to create modern visual languages to promote this important milestone, highlighting the brand’s capabilities in sustainability in the box and traditional print processes. Salt&Pepper created an energetic, robust, and positive branding system, creating a line of 100 percent sustainable, using water-based inks and minimal paper waste to promote the company's core values.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design	Gold	2024	Grafiche Sabbioni

Suprala Font Family

Suprala Font Family

Primary Function

Typeface Specimen

Description

Suprala is a contemporary delicate humanist serif typeface, with beautifully balanced forms, perfect for branding and communications projects. Suprala’s round, elegant, and classically elegant design, supports all major Latin-based languages in twelve styles. True italics advance the aesthetics, bringing energy and making it suitable for modern applications. Each weight includes more than 700 glyphs with stylistic letter and numeral sets and alternative glyphs and discretionary ligatures.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design	Gold	2023	S6 Foundry

Aprex Family

Aprex Family

Primary Function

Typeface Specimen

Description

Aprex font perfectly balances the minimalist qualities associated with contemporary sans with flair within the width of the counters and comfortable, breathable apertures. Throughout weights and sizes, the typeface has great legibility and good contrast between positive and negative space, making it stunningly versatile. With a seamless combination of contemporary details and classic styles, Aprex draws inspiration from the mid-century humanist and grotesques typefaces. Each weight includes more than 700 glyphs.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design	Gold	2023	S6 Foundry

Florid Sans

Florid Sans

Primary Function

Typeface Design

Description

Florid Sans typeface perfectly balances minimalist quality with a combination of contemporary details and classic styles. The font family is geometric in nature with humanist quality rooted in the Swiss tradition, designed with comfortable, breathable apertures that make it stunningly versatile. Each weight includes more than 700 glyphs with stylistic letter and numeral sets and alternative glyphs and discretionary ligatures.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design	Gold	2023	S6 Foundry

FAFFIN FONT FAMILY

FAFFIN FONT FAMILY

Primary Function

TYPE DESIGN AND SPECIMEN

Description

The Faffin font family is a versatile typographic language, offering two distinct styles, Faffin Sans and Faffin Display, designed to be used individually or in tandem, allowing for a seamless blend of contemporary aesthetics. Faffin Sans, inspired by the impartiality of Swiss-type design, this font is a meticulous fusion of contemporary shapes and curves. Faffin Display takes the concept of versatility to the next level as a variable font.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design	Silver	2024	S6 Foundry

Hupla Typeface

Hupla Typeface

Primary Function

Type Design And Type Specimen

Description

Hupla emerges as a stylistic font family, meticulously crafted as a mechanical font within a precisely defined grid. This design philosophy extends its versatility, making it an ideal choice for application at various sizes, seamlessly transitioning between text and display settings. Enriched with a comprehensive set of OpenType stylistic features, Hupla becomes more than just a typeface; it transforms into a dynamic tool for creative expression.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design	Silver	2024	S6 Foundry

HUCKS SERIF

HUCKS SERIF

Primary Function

TYPE DESIGN AND SPECIMEN

Description

Hucks Serif is a contemporary serif-type family, presenting a seamless integration of large open counters and gracefully curved and rounded forms, resulting in a glyph set that breathes a modern and elegant typographic aesthetic. The deliberate contrast between thick and thin strokes bestows Hucks Serif a harmonious and stylish appearance. Hucks Serif's design is meticulously crafted, a dedication to infusing letterforms with an inherent elegance that elevates the font to a distinctive style.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design	Silver	2024	S6 Foundry

BAKE SANS

BAKE SANS

Primary Function

TYPE DESIGN AND SPECIMEN

Description

Bake Sans is a contemporary typeface that exudes style and personality. Inspired by the impartiality of Swiss-type design, this font is a meticulous fusion of contemporary shapes and curves. Crafted with modern and distinctive shapes, curves, and idiosyncrasies, this font offers the perfect visual consistency for branding and communication projects through the experiment forms.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design	Bronze	2024	S6 Foundry

Arlo Sans

Arlo Sans

Primary Function

Type Design

Description

Arlo is a geometric sans serif typeface containing purposeful subtle design touches, details, and deviations. The width of the counters and comfortable, breathable apertures mean that Arlo Sans has excellent legibility and contrast throughout weights and sizes. Mastered for optimal readability, Arlo Sans is a versatile typefamily designed with robust, reliable forms; it contains its contemporary personality. The font includes over 20 stylistic glyphic alternatives.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design	Bronze	2024	S6 Foundry

SP Saffron Grotesk

SP Saffron Grotesk

Primary Function

Type Specimen

Description

Saffron is an elegant contemporary neo-grotesque sans-serif typeface with strong stylistic geometric contrasts, drawing on the aesthetics and the typographic standards of Swiss modernism. The distinctive wide-open stance was designed to give the right visual consistency for branding and communications. This authentic and original typeface represents a shifting contemporary aesthetics. The specimen is divided into sections, with ring binder posters inside the pack.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design	Silver	2022	S6 Foundry

Type Specimen Alskar

Type Specimen Alskar

Primary Function

Typeface

Description

Alskar sans is an elegant contemporary wide sans serif typeface with strong stylistic geometric authentic contrasts, drawing on the aesthetics and representing the shifting contemporary aesthetics. The type specimen was printed as a newspaper A2 (folded and sent as A4) and presents the typeface with a modern feel and experience.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design	Silver	2022	S6 Foundry

Abaliss Sans

Abaliss Sans

Primary Function

Typeface Specimen

Description

Abaliss Sans is a contemporary typeface family based on the swiss style with strong stylistic geometric contrasts representing the shifting contemporary aesthetics. Its distinctive stance and wide-open counters allow the right visual consistency for branding and communications projects. Each weight includes more than 700 glyphs with stylistic letter and numeral sets and alternative glyphs and discretionary ligatures.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design	Bronze	2023	S6 Foundry

Bla Bla Serif

Bla Bla Serif

Primary Function

Typeface Specimen

Description

Bla Bla is a contemporary serif typeface inspired by brutalist forms, featuring large open counters, and curved, round forms, creating a modern & elegant glyph set. The organic curves with gentle repetitions create powerful and harmonious forms. Designed to be a stylish modern family it is perfect for communication and branding projects. Each weight includes more than 700 glyphs with stylistic letter and numeral sets and alternative glyphs and discretionary ligatures.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design	Bronze	2023	S6 Foundry

Branding Accademia of Perugia

Branding Accademia of Perugia

Primary Function

Brand System and Campaign

Description

The Accademia of Perugia, needed a new visual identity to reflect the institution's desire to move quickly into the future. S&P worked with ABA's staff and students to involve different departments and aspects of the Academy. Designers' challenge was to create a unified kinetic brand identity and architecture that also gave individuality to the single courses. They created an energetic, robust, and positive identity system that works across the different arts avoiding the typical clichés and conventions.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design	Silver	2021	Accademia Di Belle Art Perugia

Brand design s6 Foundry

Primary Function

Brand System and Campaign

Description

The S6 Foundry branding and its subsequent type specimen book were designed to create a joy of new typography, positioning the brand's visual language. A bright and cheerful palette of warm color and a distinctive and surprising form language captures the spirit, harking to traditional signwriting of the 1900 century fun fair. The designs were developed as a kaleidoscope of forms and elements to create the right visual consistency of the brands’ ethos and a new direction of commercial bespoke fonts.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Print and Published Media Design	Silver	2021	S6 Foundry

Lunema Specimen

Lunema Specimen

Primary Function

Typeface Book

Description

Lunema is a highly stylized contemporary neo-grotesque sans serif typeface with strong geometric contrasts. A functional san serif family that can stand the test of time, whilst still feeling modern and unique. Each letter shape has been crafted with great attention to detail in order to ensure legibility at large and small sizes due to the distinct deep ink traps. All 10 weights have an extended Latin glyph set with alternatives and ligatures.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design	Silver	2021	Salt & Pepper

Plasma SF

Plasma SF

Primary Function

Typeface Design

Description

Plasma is a stylistic modular font developed to give freshness to graphic projects. The font includes diverse and versatile styles of an extensive character set with over 80 alternative glyphs allowing glyph mixing, griving the typeface a unique personality. The font is perfect for branding communications giving a distinct visual balance. The Specimen book was developed as a short run for the first 20 designers to buy the font.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design	Bronze	2022	S6 Foundry

Monk Font

Monk Font

Primary Function

Typeface Design

Description

Monk seeks a balance between the openness and legibility of humanist sans serifs and a more regularized character of the square sans serif. Although originally designed as a Latin typeface it was decided early on that it needed a wider dialogue to include an Arabic version. Both Latin and Arabic design us the same rationale and the idea of shared geometry. The strength of the parallel design process allows the two languages to have balanced harmony and grace. Both Arabic and Latin work seamlessly together having shared counters, stem thickness, and curved forms.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design	Silver	2020	Salt & Pepper

Light Luce

Light Luce

Primary Function

Typographic Book

Description

After the devastating earthquake of 2016, the Umbria Region of Italy required a reposition of its communications. This catalog is that journey displaying the cultural riches of unknown areas of the territory. Each of the section index pages was designed focusing on communicating that storytelling. Although mainly a photography journey of light and unseen culture, the textual part of the catalog has been treated to balance the visual story.

Details

Category	Award Status	Year	Designed For
Print and Published Media Design	Bronze	2020	Salt & Pepper

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