ORNACLINK is a pinball-inspired art tool that brings historic typographic ornaments back to life through hands-on interaction. By treating typography as modular shapes, it invites experimentation through movement, chance, and rhythm. Participants tilt and shake the box, guiding marbles and paint to create unique abstract compositions. An accompanying booklet showcases the different outcomes and possibilities that emerge through interaction with the tool.

This (not) type specimen is the result of an experimental light-painting process using a scanner and a flashlight. I developed this technique accidentally, I wanted to take a selfie in my scanner. The flash created interesting textures making me able to create type out of them. In the specimen the letters work as symbols in an alternative world.

During their internship at Raquel Quevedo’s studio, Clara and Eulalie (Centre de Formation Professionnelle des Arts, Geneva) developed work within the Algorithm Vegetal project. They experimented with the grid as a coded system, reworking it through vegetal and algorithmic logics to generate hybrid typographic forms.

Marrying analogue and digital type as an act of positioning in between. Digital design and fabrication are brought into letterpress. Intentionally combining touch, imperfection and traditional craft with the precision and experimental potential of contemporary tools. Modular, digital type sketches were translated into physical, 3D printed letterpress forms. Creating a dialogue between digital flexibility and analogue tactility, while simultaneously engaging critically with letterpress history.

A cassette design concept for Exiles Electronics, created for Natalie Szende’s EP, Vacuum. The project explores the potential of typography to act as a key visual for experimental sound. The composition reflects the duality of the tracks: a tension between accidental vibrations and strict, mathematical structures, translated into distorted letters.

“Anxious balance” is a poster about anxiety and keeping balance in our lives.
No matter how difficult it may be, no matter how much events may disrupt our balance, we maintain it, just as the letters maintain balance on this poster.
First, the letters were created out of tape and photographed. Then the work was completed using Photoshop, Illustrator, and the Mosh Lite website.

In a design process, mistakes are inevitable and often lead to new ideas. The exhibition becomes a space of “errors” that helped shape the final result. Mistakes are seen not as deficits, but as opportunities to take risks and experiment. For the HSLU DFK poster contest, this concept was explored through risograph, digital, and screen printing tests that deliberately provoked errors. The poster presents a selection of these results and was printed in two-color screen print.

FRAK – Reclaim the Fraktur!
Ein typografisches Experiment inspiriert von der Freude an gebrochenen Schriften, der Arbeit mit der Breitfeder, japanischer Kalligrafie, dem Duktus des Graffiti Writing und stark von Berlin.

This piece translates Moholy-Nagy’s ‘Kinetic Construction’ into a typographic system. By layering basic geometric forms, the letters create a static feel of movement, bridging the gap between structural stability and dynamic process.

Str4 translates principles of experimental music notation into a typographic system.
Letters function as sound modules, while deformation reflects rhythm, tempo, and tension.
The project combines modular notation structures with deformable score grids associated with Brian Eno and Steve Roden.
Str4 exists as an open typographic study where form remains readable while continuously shifting in time.

Bones is a variable typeface breaking like bones.

Playing with the idea of Asia’s image increasingly being associated with technology and artificial intelligence, the work experiments with the 3D tool in Adobe Illustrator to turn the word ‘亞’ (short-form for Asia) into a cyber sculpture built from east Asian architectural elements and motifs.

Work in progress by Laia Serrano (Experimental Type Workshop, Escola Massana, professor Raquel Quevedo). From sauce dispensers to volumetric ink letters—moving between 2D and 3D, analog mess and digital form.

Typographic poster for the LocalLineup Festival 2025. Local hip-hop culture at Sedel Lucerne under this year’s motto „beach kiosk“. Experimental font design inspired by the Swiss classic ice „Gasparini chocolate raspberry” and garlands in a round arch shape.

The phrase “to be or not to be” is taken from a famous line in William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” and symbolizes life or death. This expression is also used more generally as a symbol of difficult decisions, dilemmas, and existential anxieties.

Ridn is a grid based multi layered geometric Latin Arabic Japanese Katakana display type loosely inspired by Wim Crouwel’s radical typography.

Orig is a grid based multi layered geometric display typeface loosely inspired by Japanese origami fold.

Aith is a monolinear geometric display typeface loosely inspired by Thai typography.

Minal is monolinear curveless strict angled cursive display typeface.

Plasticine is inherently three-dimensional. In this work, the word “Workshop” is written using forms inspired by Ukrainian cursive writing. The natural volume of the material allows the letterforms to exist as sculptural objects. Beyond formal research, the project aims to encourage fellow designers to experiment with plasticine as a typographic medium and explore its unique physical qualities.

Pxstncl is a pixel oriented grid based stencil styled display type loosely inspired by Nikon FM10 camera logo.

The word “Children” –” Дети “– was written on the ground in front of the Drama Theatre in Mariupol in 2022, where civilians were sheltering during russian attacks. Despite the inscription, the theatre was bombed by russians, killing more than 600 people. This work recreates the lettering to preserve the memory of this war crime and to resist forgetting.

What modules can a letter be built from? Potentially anything. This number 6 is composed of small plasticine blades of grass and leaves. The work explores modular construction and questions the boundaries between letterform, ornament, and organic structure.

Salutei is a pixel oriented grid based display type loosely inspired by Soviet Constructivist typography.