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Iliana Nalbantska
Blian
Iliana Nalbantska
IIiana Nalbantska is a Sofia-born and Stockholm-based type designer. Before Type and Media Iliana used to work in different design fields. What led her to type and Type and Media was her experimental brushwork while listening to music late at night, and her love for ancient writing systems. At the moment, Iliana is focused on type and finds inspiration taking part in different types of collaborations.
Blian
After exploring different ideas for her graduation project, Iliana decided to focus on taming some of her wild brush expressions and developed an experimental variable display type system. BLIAN started as a pattern script typeface that follows a cursive, flowing but broken construction, enclosed in itself, that later evolved beyond the pattern-like structure. The system works as variable fonts that grow in weight. Throughout the ideation process, Iliana exhausted different contemporary and conventional ideas, balancing her way between legibility and illegibility, and is still curious to explore it further.







