3d plus ai

Experimenting with ai (animation) I developed a workflow by creating 3d-doodles to set the light, shadows, materials and motion, using them as an input for Deforum Stable Diffusion to get an animated interpretation of ai by combining it with text. Its bringing it to life and adding a certain randomization. The individual frames of the final animation are very inspiring to find new typographic forms.

Drizzling

Drizzling is inspired by those liquid ingredients that are often seen in the process of pastry cooking. This typeface is meant to be fun and even a bit goofy. Many letters are drawn with one continuous stroke without any stops. It’s an experiment with the lettering trick, mimicking the drizzling process in pastry. This technique helps bring out the wiggly and wobbly appearance, which becomes a key characteristic of this Drizzling typeface.

Swiss Art Expo

This poster was made for the “DESIGN IT! 2019 poster contest for the vision of the event: SWISS ART EXPO 2019 which was held from August 15th to 19th. With over 80,000 visitors daily, it is one of the most visited places in Switzerland. The composition is entirely made from the typographic sign “SWISSARTEXPO 2019 each letter is transformed into a 3D object functioning as multiple exhibition halls in which enormous crowds are moving and looking at art.

Unpredictable

Unpredictability is connected to an explosion both directly and indirectly. “In explosive circumstances, the calculation of probabilities does not work, there is only chance, and the result is unpredictable,” Lotman explains. In his writings, unpredictability is primarily associated with culture.

Phototyper Specimens

Phototyper is a system that generates letterforms by filling typographical skeletons using different crops from an image. The typographical skeletons are originally drawn, representing the essential shape of each glyph.
Different textures can be used to fill and thus give shape to each typographic skeleton creating unique letters that can later be applied to various projects.

Harmonoglyphs

Harmonoglyphs are the product of a generative system that uses a genetic algorithm to evolve Lissajous curves that resemble letters and other glyphs. This project is the core of a practical tutorial for a course on Computational Creativity for Design, where master’s students are introduced to concepts of artificial intelligence, such as evolutionary algorithms, applied to the visual domain. The presented Harmonoglyphs were evolved by different people including students and lecturers of the Master’s degree in Design and Multimedia of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra, Portugal.

Hommage à Stanisław Lem

Stanisław Lem was born on September 12, 1921, in Lviv, and died on March 27, 2006, in Cracow, Poland. 2021 is the 100th birthday (and 15th death) anniversary of the greatest Polish science fiction writer.

Stanisław Lem was a man of above-average intelligence and an exceptional visionary. In his books written back in the twentieth century, Lem predicted the emergence of many devices that function today, such as audiobooks and e-books. He also wrote extensively on various forms of intelligence, including machines as in the novel The Invincible (1964), and the intelligent ocean in the novel Solaris (1961).

This poster is dedicated to him.

Uvas Display

Uvas Display focuses on the interconnective play of letters (and numerals). In short – characters respond to one another, front and back. The interaction of the letters alter between overlapping, cutting, merging and skewing – generating an unpredictable flow when typed.

Optical sizes (Big, Medium, Small) allow for Uvas to be presentable at different scales, and the variable version foster even more flexibility for matching different sizes.

With “just” 900 lines of feature code, letters fuse together, becoming continuous ligatures.

Wow / The typographical constant of corporeality

Wow is a typeface with innovative elements to create a distinctive typographic style. The design is based on the synthesis of western calligraphy and develops the concepts of absolute and relative to create new languages in design, typography and visual arts. The corporeality of the characters from the horizontal axis and the alternate characters are the features that differentiate Wow, achieving a fluid and dynamic effect. These characteristics make it a versatile and flexible option.
Wow is based on the exploration of the variability of a constant to create new forms, which opens a dialogue on the inclusion of all the points of view of the same constant.

Type’o’Taped

Type’o’Taped was an academic project that aimed to explore generative typography using analog processes and human participation.

Users acted as computers following an algorithm that would result in the generation of one output — a letter of the alphabet. They were not aware of anything about the project beforehand.

In short, the algorithm involved: a grid to help drawing the skeleton of each letter; a dice; 6 containers with stickers from different shape categories (arcs, polygons, triangles, etc).

The outcome was an experimental, flexible and fun alphabet developed by various designers and non-designers candidates.

choose your reality

< choose your reality > suggests the idea that we have some degree of control over our perception of the world and the experiences we have. It implies that we have the power to shape our reality by choosing how we think, feel, and act in response to the world around us.

Selected Foreign Objects

Foreign Objects is a 100-day project created by Yaren Kaya within SVA Masters in Branding program. It operates under the prompt of critiquing the othering of identities through names and characters deemed “alien” by Western eyes. The issue at hand goes far beyond mispronunciation or not speaking the language. It’s the prejudice towards anything east of “normal” coloring perception. When people alienate you by applying a distorted image of otherness onto your identity, it re-brands how you are perceived; Foreign Objects uses distorted typography as a constant to communicate identity and its relationship with skewed views of others layered upon it.

baden-württemberg wind music association visual identity

blow your own trumpet

when a music association wants a visual identity, the best approach is to go straight to the heart of the matter – in this case, music. this involved looking at how music is written down and translating that principle into a typeface. the diverse forms and symbols of different musical notation styles were used to develop a new system perfectly attuned to the subject in hand. job done. ta-da!

project team: filip antunović, maks barbulović, dominik bissem (project manager), carolin himmel, andreas uebele

principle typeface:
own, starter by tobias hoenow