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African Bondage

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Posted on May 2nd 2010

Garth Walker's Winky font is a bondage-inspired font that has been published globally, but has rarely been seen in South Africa.


Garth Walker, founder of Orange Juice Design and iJusi magazine, and now founder of Mister Walker, was asked by Korean designer Ang Sang-Soo to design a font for the first Korean Typography Biennale about 10 years ago. Sang-Soo asked Walker for an “African” font, but here was just no such thing. Instead, Walker designed a font based on his interest in experimental lettering in Roman type. The font, entitled Winky, is a bondage-inspired font that has been published globally, but has rarely been seen in South Africa.

Garth Walker

Garth Walker trained as a graphic designer and photographer at Technikon Natal in Durban in the mid 1970s.

He later founded Orange Juice Design in Durban in 1995, one of South Africa’s best-known graphic design studios and one of the very few with an international reputation. In 2008 Walker again went solo with his new studio, Mister Walker.

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