Charles Grant & Dieter Zembsch
Charles Grant (*1981) started his career as an apprentice at Vaughan Oliver’s V23 studio in London. Since then he has worked across many disciplines including retail/spatial design, fashion art direction, motion graphics, typography, digital and packaging. He approached Lineto with the idea to digitally re-appropriate BEANS, a typeface by Dieter Zembsch from the early 1970s. In collaboration with Zembsch, he developed it into LL BEANS (2008). Later, Charles dedicated himself to drawing another Zembsch design, called LL Jumping Jack (2019). Since 2016, he has worked as a Senior Creative at LOVE, an creative agency based in Manchester, UK.
Dieter Zembsch (*1943) received a diploma from Hochschule Mannheim in 1968, and worked at a number of large German publishing houses as well as at cosmetics company Mann & Schröder, where he clandestinely drew BEANS (published 1973, by Letraset) and Jumping Jack (published 1975, by Mecanorma). In 1977, he founded his own studio, Zembsch’Werkstatt, in Munich, specialising in book design. He retired in 2008, on the very day LL BEANS (2008) was published. He has since pursued personal editorial projects – from a children’s book to a portfolio for a theatre company touring with a Shakespeare production, and participated in the digital re-issue of his own LL Jumping Jack (2019).
LL BEANS has been thoroughly overhauled and is getting a new release in November 2019, to coincide with the launch of it sister font LL Jumping Jack.
Charles Grant & Dieter Zembsch
Charles Grant (*1981) started his career as an apprentice at Vaughan Oliver’s V23 studio in London. Since then he has worked across many disciplines including retail/spatial design, fashion art direction, motion graphics, typography, digital and packaging. He approached Lineto with the idea to digitally re-appropriate BEANS, a typeface by Dieter Zembsch from the early 1970s. In collaboration with Zembsch, he developed it into LL BEANS (2008). Later, Charles dedicated himself to drawing another Zembsch design, called LL Jumping Jack (2019). Since 2016, he has worked as a Senior Creative at LOVE, an creative agency based in Manchester, UK.
Dieter Zembsch (*1943) received a diploma from Hochschule Mannheim in 1968, and worked at a number of large German publishing houses as well as at cosmetics company Mann & Schröder, where he clandestinely drew BEANS (published 1973, by Letraset) and Jumping Jack (published 1975, by Mecanorma). In 1977, he founded his own studio, Zembsch’Werkstatt, in Munich, specialising in book design. He retired in 2008, on the very day LL BEANS (2008) was published. He has since pursued personal editorial projects – from a children’s book to a portfolio for a theatre company touring with a Shakespeare production, and participated in the digital re-issue of his own LL Jumping Jack (2019).
LL BEANS has been thoroughly overhauled and is getting a new release in November 2019, to coincide with the launch of it sister font LL Jumping Jack.