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ABOUT

 
Portrait by  @rominasandrock

Portrait by @rominasandrock

Sol Matas is a Graphic and Type designer graduated from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Guest Lecturer at the Type Master program at the same institution.

She started her career as a graphic designer at the Saatchi & Saatchi agency in Buenos Aires and since 2001 she runs her own studio Sonnenshine specializing in branding and custom type design, working for companies from Latin America, Europe and the United States.

She has developed font projects in Latin, Cyrillic and Devanagari and has collaborated on typefaces for a variety of foundries.

Her type projects were selected for the Bienal Tipos Latinos 2010, Tipos Latinos 2012 and the 5th International Typography Congress in Valencia.

She gave lectures and workshops at international conferences and educational institutions in Argentina, Bulgaria, Colombia, India, Spain and Germany.

Since 2015 she is member of alphabettes.org and since 2017 she is part of the organization's team of Typostammtisch Berlin.

She currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.


NOTABLE MENTIONS
 

• Orchard Of Typefaces — Talking With Sol Matas, by Liron Lavi Turkenich
• Typomad 2015: Testimonios
• ¿Somos concientes del valor de una tipografía?


* Texts in this website are written with Bitter Font, designed by Sol Matas, published by: Google Fonts.


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  • Sol Matas
    Hey! Hanna is posting this week some interesting Ducht IJ, check this 👇 https://t.co/4p9ZDpUzmm
    about 13 hours ago
  • Sol Matas
    RT @rosettatype: You will be the first ones to know that we are hiring! - Studio manager (preferably full-time) - Font engineer (par… https://t.co/A94qakRk2u
    about 13 hours ago

Back to Sonnenstudio. 🌞
Fridays are mostly quiet and calm, not many mates are coming to the studio. 
Zoom in/out of my desk.
Back to Sonnenstudio. 🌞 Fridays are mostly quiet and calm, not many mates are coming to the studio. Zoom in/out of my desk.
Last night I fell on the street and my face ended up stuck to the ice. Wounded knee, frozen face, but in love.
Last night I fell on the street and my face ended up stuck to the ice. Wounded knee, frozen face, but in love.
Just a few lamps and ceilings from the Hermitage Museum
Just a few lamps and ceilings from the Hermitage Museum
Back to Sonnenstudio. 🌞
Fridays are mostly quiet and calm, not many mates are coming to the studio. 
Zoom in/out of my desk. Last night I fell on the street and my face ended up stuck to the ice. Wounded knee, frozen face, but in love. Just a few lamps and ceilings from the Hermitage Museum

Follow my collaborative development process:
https://github.com/solmatas