Daniel Coull is a typeface designer from South Africa based in Montreal, Canada. He co-designed the typeface Climate Crisis in 2021, which has a home in the permanant collection at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Also available on Google Fonts. Daniel is currently a Kone Foundation 2021 grant recipient.
For new projects, collaborations, and lettering sweatshops.
hello@danielcoull.com
Education:
BA in Visual Communications, Vega School Durban, 2013
MA in Type & Media, the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2017.
Exhibitions:
Climate Crisis –
Acquired, Shaping the National Design Collection, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Musuem, New York, 2024
Digital Witness, Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film, Los Angeles County Musuem of Art, Los Angeles, 2024
High Musuem of Art, Atlanta, 2022.
Accolades/workshops:
D&AD Awards 2021 / Graphite Pencil / Type Design – Climate Crisis.
Vuoden Huiput 2021 / Gold Peak – Climate Crisis.
Lettering Sweatshop, Bob the Robot, 13.12.2019, Helsinki, Finland.
Press/features:
It's Nice That
Heaps Magazine
Fast Company
Design Indaba
Adweek
Typograph.her