Hi, I'm Matt Vlach. I'm a graphic designer working in California, & practicing across type, book, installation, interaction, and identity design. I like big ideas, using my hands, collaborating with others, and trying things that I haven't tried before. Let's work together???

Eternalist

Typeface, Specimen, & Textile

Eternalist is a Display Typeface concieved out of various philosophical concepts of time: Eternalism and Presentism. Designed of mostly hard edges, and informed by thin diagonal strokes reminiscent of calligraphic form, the typeface is aimed to operate as a graphic tool for impactful headlines & graphic patterning. A 52 pg. book in an edition of 25 was printed, cut, and bound by hand. A woven textile was produced to demonstrate the typeface in use.

2019

CHAPPED Anthology

Book

Published with Basset Hound Press, and John Anton Malinowski of Chapped House. CHAPPED Anthology takes from French New Wave and Dada era influence, using a hard candy as a symbol for the choice to savour or not savour an ephemeral object. 500 pgs. Available at bassethoundpress.com/Chapped

2019

Renewer

Lettering

Lettering Commissioned by Robbie Landsburg for post-rock/genre-bending band Renewer.

2019

WEAVING FREQUENCIES

Publication, Copywriting

4-color risograph printed publication of album reviews and interviews written by myself about different music artists from Sacramento, CA. The focus was on experimentation with a risograph printer, and the telling of a story through my hands, one typeface, and iphone photos.

2018