Nermin Moufti

2024 in 24 seconds. A year of real good work and a whole lot of lessons. Thanks for being there with us @bravercollective @seekers.coffee @dentologie @watermelonpictures @onedesignco @breakfast.for.din @oliviakohlerphoto @chicagographicdesignclub 2025: More seeking, more spaciousness, more flossing, more frames, more healing, more building, more love letters, more love, more liberation. We get the world we make. Let’s make cool things together.

This weekend, we celebrated our fourth birthday as a studio! That’s right, four years, done and dusted. So grateful to frolic in this field with you, friends. We’re gonna get up to some real cool stuff in year five. Just you wait and see. 📸: @oliviakohlerphoto

Feels surreal to be holding an award I admired since I was a young, budding designer. Even more special to receive it for Typeforce 13’s submission website. Typeforce is an annual art show featuring one-of-a-kind typographic creations by local and global artists, and for its 13th edition we wanted to honor the resilient craft of tatreez, the traditional Palestinian embroidery that carries land, memory, and history. The result is a highly interactive, digital-tactile site where visitors can “cross-stitch” TF13 into multi-typographic creations that we designed for the show’s identity. Not pictured: the many hands behind this labor of love and web dev(otion). Starting with @barefootfunk , our web wizard, who made our wildest ideas real and then 10x’d them. Will @q_type my partner in dreaming + design; Lindsay @seeleyavenue project and sanity manager; @klooky on copy love; and @ladyberman on show production. So much gratitude to @communicationarts for the generous feature in the 32nd interactive annual publication, and to the jury for the affirming words. And most importantly to the artists, and to the organizers at @coprosperitychicago who have shaped this exhibit into a Chicago favorite for 14+ years. Also, shoutout to my kiddo who stitched, tested prototypes, and filmed this scrappy unboxing (toes for scale)! Follow @typeforce and look out for details of the upcoming Typeforce 14. Submissions are now open and live! Opening night May 15.

I love our process, our people, and our people’s people! @field.ofpractice design with > design for, always 🖤

I’ve been praying for a new @klooky chapbook pretty much ever since I met her poems. Truly an answered prayer, this book is more generous than I could have imagined. Earlier this summer, Kristin honored me with the task of designing it cover to cover. ‘here i show you a human heart’ is a gorgeous collection of her poems over a decade. What a gift it is to get to enter the mind of such a brilliant poet and learn what ‘lovely’, soft’, and ‘spacious’ might mean in book form. Typeset in Louize by @205tf , we marveled at how the ampersand is just right and how the italic ‘y’ is elegant, yet not distracting. Much like the cover, this book will tear your heart open—in the softest of ways—only to bring it back together page by page. Thank you @klooky for this beautiful, generous offering to the world. Here’s to more together. Inshallah 🤲🏽 p.s. you can gift it to yourself via the link in her bio

Super late sharing this but still as thrilled our design studio @field.ofpractice took home a handful of wins this year. @klooky is always wisely reminding me to celebrate and enjoy every win so here goes: Our branding for @moamer and @seekers.coffee both took home honors, as did our collaboration with the fine folks at @onedesignco on the @watermelonpictures identity. The tatreez-inspired, wildly interactive system for this year’s @typeforce earned Judge’s Choice from Jenna Blazevich (@vichcraft ). This one was truly a group effort, with big hugs and gratitude to everyone who had a hand in it— @q_type , @barefootfunk , @seeleyavenue and @ladyberman Many thanks to all our comrades and incredible clients, and to all the judges for these blessings and affirmations. @marykatemcdevitt @jessicahische @vichcraft Simon and @chrispiascik - THANK YOU 🙏🏽💙

an unsorted dump of glimmers from the recent feed. ✨الحمد الله (last slide via @baladbox )

ICYMI: Our January Field Note is now up on our site! In it, @nmoufti writes beautifully about her whirlwind trip to Cairo at the end of 2024, with plenty of gorgeous visuals of course. Big thanks to our gracious hosts and beloved clients, @specialtybun and @cairocoffeecollective , for taking good care of Nermin and her son, and for all the core memories made along the way. Don’t forget to subscribe to Field Notes to get our mostly-monthly newsletter delivered hot and fresh to your inbox! All links in our bio.

Not sure what I’m more stoked about: bringing back @typeforce in its 13th installment, or this absolute stellar line up! Mark your calendars for opening night on January 31 at @coprosperitychicago [register link in bio] I can honestly say selecting the artists this year was the hardest. SUCH powerful submissions that made us wish the gallery was triple its size. So thankful for all who submitted — your work was seen, felt, and deeply appreciated 🖤 P.S. will be back to share the making of TF13 with the dreamiest team: @barefootfunk @q_type @seeleyavenue @ladyberman 🔜

So thankful to have landed 2024 with a short trip to cairo that far transcended the construct and length of time. It was beyond heart filling to witness the beautiful faces, spaces, and sounds around @cairocoffeecollective and @specialtybun — two specialty coffee powerhouses that @field.ofpractice helped bring to life all the way from the midwest back in 2021. what a gift to have grown together! coffee is relationships; it’s community, they told us. Indeed it is. And we’ll create and grow with these heart workers for as long as they’ll let us! Here’s to deepening these bonds in the year ahead and beyond. Amīn 🖤☕️

Holiday rush? Deadline extended: get your Typeforce 13 submission in by Monday, January 6th. . 📢 Artists announced on January 10th. . #typeforce #typeforce13 #typography #chicagoevents #chicagodesign #type #designshow #artshow #chicago #coprosperitysphere #chicagoevents #designshow #chicagodesign #designcompetition #typeart

Submissions for Typeforce 13 are open. To be part of the show share your letter focused ideas by January 3rd. Artists announced January 10th. Join us for that one-of-a-kind opening night type party January 31. Many more details at typeforce.com . Hit up TF13 developer, Bryant, for your next project. bryantcodes.art/ for more details and contact info. @barefootfunk . #typeforce #typeforce13 #typography #chicagoevents #chicagodesign #type #designshow #artshow #chicago #coprosperitysphere #chicagoevents #designshow #chicagodesign #designcompetition #typeart #crossstitch