Mark Gowing

Formist Foundry is a a commercial outlet for unique and expressive typefaces driven by the belief that communication is as much about feeling as it is about clarity, Formist Foundry utilise their unique cultural experience to develop rigorous solutions that unify content, concept and design. Every Formist Foundry project exhibits a commitment to research, detail and quality. Formist Foundry strive to be progressive and inventive by challenging expectations of what type design can be. While we are concerned with the integrity of typographic communications, we understand that creativity, personality and abstraction are equally as important as style, clarity and legibility. We employ our intuition and rigour to produce typography that we hope you will find useful and meaningful.

Formist Foundry director Mark Gowing is an artist and typographer working in Gadigal/Wangal country, Sydney, Australia. Gowing is also co-founder of the groundbreaking music arts organisation Longform Editions. With a practice spanning more than 35 years, Gowing has produced projects for leading organisations and institutions with a passionate focus on visual art and language, design, film and music. In 2018 Gowing’s work was featured in the publication The History of Graphic Design. Vol. 2. 1960–Today and his poster design is surveyed in the publication Mark Gowing: Inside the Oblong. He has been honoured with solo exhibitions at the 22nd International Poster Biennale in Warsaw, Poland, the Divieto d’Affissione in Turin, Italy, and Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Gowing is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and his work is held in numerous institutional collections including the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, USA.