Flash
BUYLEAD VERSION
- Designer
- Enric Crous-Vidal
- Foundry
- Bauersche Giesserei
(Bauer Types) - Year
- 1953
DIGITAL VERSION
- Publisher
- Neufville Digital
- Design & Production
- Neufville Digital
- Year
- 2007
DESCRIPTION
Flash is a three-dimensional display typeface characterized by bold, sculptural letterforms that generate strong optical depth and relief effects. Its dynamic construction creates a strong sense of movement and visual intensity, making it especially effective for headlines, posters, and expressive graphic compositions where typography plays a leading role.
Flash includes distinctive stylistic features, such as alternative versions of the capital “O,” one of them defined by a sharp 45° angle, reinforcing its unconventional and energetic character. Digitally revived from the original design, Flash ND preserves the boldness and sculptural quality of the metal type, offering designers a typeface that combines historical experimentation with contemporary expressive power.
WoOD
Wood engraving brought
image and text together
Flash in use over
The Celestial Map-Northern Hemisphere (fragment)
Albrecht Dürer, woodcut, 1515.
Flash
- Flash
Context
Flash was conceived within the framework of Grafía Latina, a mid-20th-century cultural and typographic movement that emerged as an alternative to the rational, functionalist approach dominant in Central European modernism. Grafía Latina advocated for a more expressive, intuitive, and culturally rooted typographic language, closely connected to Mediterranean visual traditions.
Within this context, Flash reflects a shift toward typography as visual expression rather than pure function, embracing volume, texture, and emotional impact, and aligning with broader explorations of handcrafted, engraved, and illustrative forms.
Biography
Flash ND was designed in 1953 by Enric Crous-Vidal, a Catalan graphic designer, typographer, and theorist, and one of the key figures of the Grafía Latina movement. Educated in Barcelona and later based in France, he developed a practice that bridged graphic design, typography, and cultural theory.
Through his work and writings, Crous-Vidal championed a typographic vision rooted in expression, cultural identity, and human sensibility, challenging the idea of a universal, purely functional typography.
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