It isn`t Happening 2

Custom typefaces and typographic poster

For the It isn`t Happening Collective and festivals, I developed the basis for an inclusive open source design system based on the use and development of some of my typefaces.

Distortions and superimpositions in the typographic architecture and with the type bodies are freely used to reconstruct the experimental soundscapes with type.

1. Vote: Ignite civic duty with a dynamic, impactful typographic design – a visual call-to-action urging US citizens to exercise their democratic right to vote.
2. YAS WE CAN: Celebrating LGBTQ+ rights through a vibrant and bold typographic composition, inspiring unity and empowerment in the ongoing fight for equality.
3. 2023: Jumping into the new year with a whimsical balloon-inspired typography, encapsulating joy and hope as we soar into fresh beginnings.
4. Playground: A journey into the cosmos with an astrolabe-inspired letter O, marrying playfulness and discovery in a mesmerizing, celestial design.

Imagine a font that reveals more and more details the closer you get. From clearly readable in small size to illustrative in medium and to something completely new in large scale. A kaleidoscope, a psychedelic trip, this is Psyleidoscope.

This project is about the body. What I want to explore is not only the physical body but also the visual body. The body can be the design of text, the design of types, and more experimental visual direction. In my typeface design process, I use my body movement to perceive how the types change, using performance to give types emotion, and people performance dances together to convey the relationship between the center of types gravity and structure of the types, and so on. The body experimental typeface was purchased for use by the Focus Group in Berlin which is a global group of artists from diverse backgrounds.

What new things can emerge from the old materials?

A visual identity for the exhibition is designed that celebrates the new values of the reused old.

Letters cut by a plotter from foil glued to a sign were peeled off. The letters warped uncontrollably.

This project gathers several experimentation realized around the reality,
the virtuality and all the questions that I ask myself.
Today we talk about virtual reality, but I think that even in the physical world everyone has his own reality,
his own point of view. What makes our world is made of multiple and infinite realities.
Everything has been done on the iPad pro with Procreate. The manual design through digital
is a typical representation of our society with multiple realities.
Reality is just a matter of vision and the way you see life.
Everyone has their own reality of the same world we live in.
This is what my reality looks like;
Jovial, positive and hopeful.

Ganger Typeface

Sega Experimental typeface

Participation to the 36 days of type 2022 challenge. All letters were knitted on a 3 by 3 grid using the intarsia technique in 3 colors
(plus the background).

Experimental typeface design

Processing of the Putin script where the letter N rotates into a Z. The Z is one of several symbols painted on military vehicles of the Russian Armed Forces involved in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Poster created in memory of the collapse of the Morandi bridge in Genoa. The broken text that falls like the bridge, the black outline like a death announcement

A sheet of the old Letraset which reads Fake News. If you pay attention to the news you will discover false ones.

This poster design was for filmmaker Vincent Dieutre’s talk event hosted by FOL and IKSV as a part of 36th Istanbul Film Festival. Dieutre is an avant-garde filmmaker who creates docu-dramas he stars as the protagonist. I designed a custom lettering for this poster to represent Dieutre’s experimental approach.

A reaction to leaving my twenties and embracing the moments that define my age more than simply a number. The end of one thing becomes the beginning of another.

My work was an exploration of diverse methods and mediums, pushing the boundaries of creativity. From traditional pen and paper to digital illustrations, I experimented with textures, colors, and compositions. Each day, I challenged myself to think outside the box, merging different techniques to create letterforms. It was an exhilarating journey, filled with moments of inspiration and breakthroughs.

Type Thursday is a monthly gathering in Tbilisi for type lovers from all walks of life and any experience level. The goal of the poster was to attract type-lovers that never heard of the event before, and to give joy to those who are already a part of it.

Since the event takes place only on Thursdays, the poster contains elements specific to the calendar. And to please type-lovers, the main role is assigned to custom letters in a complex space with the familiar Unicode marks.

The poster has AR Instagram mask that applies motion version above the physical static one.

Terra, 2017, Solar – Galeria de Arte Cinemática, c/ José Luis Dias e DROP

New Spain, 2018, Solar – Galeria de Arte Cinemática, c/ DROP

Mescla, 2019, c/ Inês Nepomuceno

Abitare Italia — PDB, Porto Design Biennale, 2019 c/ Another Collective

The project included designing a film festival poster. “Poetic Realism” was the theme of my poster. There is a lot of social and emotional drama in these films about marginalized people. It’s common for poetic realism movies to end in despair. Lighting played an important role in those movies. Using lighting, for example, the main character’s face is illuminated from the side, or a key location where the character found himself is illuminated, or an object is transformed into a symbol. Lighting became a design decision. To reveal my poster’s typography, I used several lights. Shadows were also used. Through lights and shadows, the typography of the movement’s name was brought to life.

Chutz is an audacious slanted typeface with horizontal contrast and horizontally oriented strokes developed for Jewish brand Chutzpah of the Feisty Foods company based in Brooklyn, New York. The typeface has three purposes – to feel Jewish, audacious, and delicious. To convey the feeling of Hebrew in Latin, Greek and Cyrillic script, such means as horizontal contrast (opposite of Latin) where horizontal strokes are thicker than vertical ones, and horizontally directed calligraphic strokes inherent in Hebrew script which make the letters more square, are used.

Don’t: Postcards of Glitch Feminism is a series of five lettered postcards that expresses the defiant energy of feminism in the cyber age. When society fears discomfort and malfunctions and tells you: “don’t rock the boat”, don’t listen, don’t comply, don’t stay silent.

Quanzoid is a display typeface that explores form-making outside of calligraphic rules yet still maintains an establishment of contrast and motion. I was inspired by the brushstrokes of the ocean — kelps. Rooted in shallow oceans, these large brown algae seaweeds make up underwater forests. They grow as fast as half a meter a day, sheltering thousands of marine organisms near the coasts.

The Earth Overshoot Day marks the day when all the natural resources our earth can regenerate within a year are used up. Thus, we are now living at the expense of future generations. This series of posters is intended to draw attention to the problem and to suggest possible solutions.

I created the ActionType project as part of my diploma thesis at UMPRUM in 2020. It is the result of my long-term interest in typography and the study of animation in the Studio of Film and TV Graphics. This resulted in a set of hand-animated letters, inscriptions and alphabets intended for use in a video presented on the actiontype.xyz website.

Manually processed typography has a special charm and achieves unrepeatable results compared to digital animations. I see this creation as the opposite of the flow of sterile motion design, which is full of eye-popping effects.