Rebranding the Inn

Korn Design of Boston and New York did the new branding for the Hanover Inn. Korn has also worked for the Charles Hotel and for Northeastern University, for whom it developed a proprietary typeface, Northeastern Baskerville, with Font Bureau (Wikipedia).

At the Inn, the firm seems to have done its homework: the White Mountains photos are by Eli Burakian and

The typography for the logo is adapted from an original Dartmouth woodblock cut typeface designed in 1969 by Will Carter and Paul Hayden Duensing.

Korn has a photo of the typography in action on the Inn’s porte-cochere.

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[Update 06.03.2013: Broken link to Font Bureau replaced with Wikipedia link.]

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