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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

Lingua Arboris gives voice to the silent victims of global warming, presenting an asemic dialogue between trees and climate change — a language beyond words.

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 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.

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.

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.

A complex piece which started off as a riso printing project during a workshop with Radek Górniak at Slopi Kopi during fig festival, Sofia.

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.

Zine publication, graphic elements, and printed matter for Ekko, an electronic and experimental music festival in Bergen, Norway.

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.

Custom lettering piece in Cyrillic script. In Bulgarian the word “светлина” means “light” (as in illumination).

Language can be reflected in many ways; in this case, the mix of textures, lettering, and typography aims to be a reflection of the possibilities of expression and making a change of the laws of gravity, we can broke the rules.

Sometimes a beginning can be a light even on the darkest days.

I have sought the opposition between round natural shapes and rectilinear lines, mixing the curvilinear vision with the functionality of language.

Wealth and opportunities are distributed very unevenly. Those in a position of wealth and safety could, without much sacrifice, easily contribute to society at large. Yet, many of the most privileged people seem to be unable or unwilling to create positive change. While morally inexcusable, this seems to be a deeply human trait, raising the question of why.
The iterative creation process, going back and forth between 3D and print, surfaces faultlines and glitches reflecting this contradiction.

My experimentation is based on Concrete Poetry, seeking manual and analogical work