gravitype

A fusion of Gravity and Typography, gravitype explores the forces governing visual form. Once, letters were metal shards with undeniable mass. Today, they are weightless symbols. This project reclaims that lost substance through digital gravity simulations.

By decomposing a typeface’s vertices, computational gravity creates organic forms beyond control. It is a journey to restore the letter-as-symbol into a “physical object.” In these traces, we find a new sense of touch for the digital era.

NONO

NONO is an User and Brand Experience for cacti and succulents. A big part of this branding is the house Mono Type “NONO MONO”, a flexible Type meant to be used as a frame for the cacti. While mirroring the organic shape, the fleshy water filed bodies and the sharp thin spikes in its growth alt glyphs. “NONO MONO” can be used as an irregular pattern or as a single letter in different growth states of the alt glyphs.

D6

The typeface is rooted in an obsession with dice and the search for expressive tools in the everyday. Built by stacking dice, it explores the challenge of balancing legibility while using the smallest possible number of elements. Each face, position, and number of pips defines the construction of glyphs. Variable axes allow adjustments to pips and edges, resulting in robust, double-line letters that invite designers to play.

Become Senseless

Humans are bombarded with senses every day: touch, sight, and sound. Becoming senseless is the only method for a person to protect their individuality, to reject foreign stimuli and retreat into one’s inner being.

The work is a guide into meditation; we see a ruined world, distorted beyond understanding. By concentrating on becoming senseless, we dispel the distortion. With enough concentration, our will can force change into the world. To become senseless, to master life. To live.

EX.26 / »Experimental Design – Our Way to Typography«

The exhibition “Experimental Design – Our Way to Typography” showcases first-semester student poster designs from the 2025-26 winter semester of the “Experimental Design” module at Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences along with original posters from Wolfgang Weingart. The exhibition poster design follows the students’ collaborative as well as iterative design process and is simultaneously a homage to Wolfgang Weingart’s design method.

G for Gestures

The theme of my work is human gestures and their varied expressions in individuals. The poster was created using techniques I have been experimenting with recently – 3D renders, textures, and reflections – which have come to characterize my artistic style and creative gestures.

wow fonts

Very cool, super fresh, and free fonts created by secondary school students using ordinary objects such as mustard, spaghetti, and Play-Doh. Because of our infinite relationships, potentialities are there. The shapes of form are not yet exhausted, and there are no miracles beyond living matter, they said.

Fonts created by Lena, Lilli, Mira, Paula, Ilian, Joel, Tanel, Jonas, Jonas, Ana-Maria, Camila, Aaron, Max, Ben, Ben, Eric, Fiete, Amalia, Lilia, Vlad, Darlin, and Liia.

High effort, low returns

This illustration uses learnings from basic public signage. The composition is arranged to allow the viewer to capture what’s essential at first glimpse.

The lettering uses these learnings as well. However, it takes a few gestural detours, bringing the basic stroke-based font closer to impulsive handwriting.

As stated, that extra effort does not pay off: all the decoration brings a font — that could have been constructed with a just a few anchor points — closer towards illegibility.

Roll every dice in the room

Randomness plays a key role in the studios’ design practice.
As do grids, which are guardrails for construction, meant to be broken at a certain point to avoid flatness.

The dice allows disruption while within the grid, yet sticking to its rules having 6 paths to go from here.
This font was created on a fixed grid with basic elements, challenging traditional typographic paths on the verge legibility.

[The additional poster is a recent risography print of the vector illustration]

Basel Reversed

Basel Reversed defies typographic norms with a consistent 21.5° backslant. Rooted in my left-leaning handwriting and Basel’s industrial architecture, this display font merges humanist italics with harsh, geometric stems. The lowercase-only design emphasizes a fluid, rhythmic gesture within a rigid grid. It functions as a concept-based system, translating a personal idiosyncrasy into a systematic, architectural framework that explores the tension between organic flow and structure.

Natłok

NATŁOK is a typographic experiment created through the multiplication of a zigzag-shaped outline. Using special settings, a very wide stroke was configured, composed of smooth, rhythmic zigzags, which was then duplicated and densified. As a result, the typographic sign acquired a heavy, fleshy, slightly abstract, tar-like form with a distinctly material character.

Le Baiser – Malfra

A complete art direction was developed to accompany Malfra, from the cover of his single to that of his EP Le Baiser. A custom logo and three original typographies were created: one for the EP and two for the singles, which were also integrated into their music videos. Le Baiser, the title of the EP, echoes a sculpture made by his grandmother and reflects recurring themes of love and human relationships, exploring family heritage and its influence on our own stories.

CT_SANS

CT_SANS applies medical CT scan methodology to typography. Letters are treated as a three-dimensional specimen, sliced layer by layer to reveal thier internal structure. The animated version shows this process over time, while static variants capture individual cross-sections as finished letterforms.
Available in Sans, Serif, and Mono, each letter has a unique volumetric & temporal signature—defined by how the scan plane moves through it and the density of information at different depths.

Bug

In this project I was discovering the possibilities of the glitch effect in typography. As I was playing with the different opacities, layers and negative spaces of the letter ‘O’, I suddenly realized I also created a shape that resembles an insect, a bug, which is also a common synonym used for glitch.

New Year, New Attempts

This work is about attempts, failures, and trying again.
The words NEW YEAR are written with a toothbrush to lose control and make them imperfect.
Each new year of our life is only a series of attempts.
It will not be perfect, and it does not need to be.
It will be special, alive, and it will be a new step forward.

P |_ /\ Y

P |_ /\ Y is an experimental exploration built in After Effects.

Alongside it, I built a simple HTML tool to import video, generate graphic compositions, and introduce subtle typographic details.

Terminal Drawings

Algorithmic plotter artworks, created with a command-line interface: a collection of machine drawn images that involve text based simulations and the aesthetics of the computer terminal to represent associative space. Given that digital information doesn’t inherently exist in physical space, one can use any structure to illustrate relationships between files, folders, thoughts and other conceptual entities.

Werkschau Design & Architecture 25/26

On Friday, 30 January 2026, from 12:00 to 8:00 pm, and Saturday, 31 January 2026, from 12:00 to 6:00 pm, the Peter Behrens School of Arts at the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf cordially invites visitors to the Winter Werkschau 25/26.

More than 250 graduates from the Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programmes in Architecture/Interior Architecture, Civic Design, Exhibition Design, Interior Architecture, Communication Design, New Craft Object Design, and Retail Design will present their graduation projects.

From the Small to the Large

In January, Düsseldorf becomes colourful: confetti serves as a symbol of joy and celebration and lends the Winter Werkschau 25/26 its distinctive character. Each degree programme is assigned its own confetti shape and colour, symbolising both the individuality of the final projects and the diversity of the two faculties, Architecture and Design. Together, these elements form a greater whole—the image of the Peter Behrens School of Arts at the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf: diverse, bold, and vibrant.

From this concept emerges a coherent design system that is reflected in the wayfinding, the exhibition design, and the visual identity. Static two- and three-dimensional applications are complemented by animations and digital formats. The deliberate interplay between macro and micro perspectives—from close-up views of individual works to the perception of the exhibition as a whole—transforms the exhibition into a lively and dynamic experience.

A particular highlight is the print concept, which replaces the classic CMYK colour spectrum with neon pink (Pantone 806 C) and neon yellow (Pantone 803 C), thereby significantly enhancing the visual impact.

Werkschau Design & Architecture 25/26

When?
January 30th, 12:00 – 8:00 pm

January 31st, 12:00 – 6:00 pm

Where?
Hochschule Düsseldorf
University of Applied Sciences

Peter Behrens School of Arts
Faculties of Architecture and Design
Building 6
Münsterstraße 156
40476 Düsseldorf / Germany

Further informations here.

Design: Julia Lange, Amaury Mussfeldt, Nora Rinner, Aileen Terry / Animations: Jason Brand, Lukas Bürger, Rick Fuleda, Patrick Pritzkau, Carl Solana / Code: Stefan Völker / Consultancy: Prof. Massimiliano Audretsch with the support of Eric Fritsch / Public Relations: Eric Fritsch, Stephanie Muscat-Bruhn, Thomas Schaplik