Non-Format was originally founded in London in 2000 by Kjell Ekhorn (Norwegian) and Jon Forss (British). Together they work on a range of projects including art direction, design, illustration and custom typography for clients including Adobe, Coca-Cola, EMI, Gap, IBM, New York Times, Nike, Nokia, Rick Owens, Sony Music and a great many others. In 2015 they merged with ANTI.
Alexander Colby is a Zurich based Art Director and Designer at SNK Identities AG since 2010.
He studied at the Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK and founded the studio xyz.ch ^ visual communication in 2003.
Since then he develops functional and appropriate visual communication by following a deliberate conceptional attitude with a focus on corporate design and typography.
Inspired by vintage typewriter typefaces he designed in 2005 the slab serif typeface family Lacrima and later the sans serif Generika. In 2010, he co-founded Milieu Grotesque together with Timo Gaessner.
Since 2008 he is visiting lecturer at F+F School of Art and Media Design in Zurich.
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