This a resubmission of my previous file by the same title with rich black and bleeds pulled. Apologies!

FT Speaker is our personal interpretation of typefaces with letterforms made from circular dots on a matrix/grid.

A dynamic grid which manipulates the existing alphabet into new randomly generated forms. Each letter was given a different grid depending on its shape, which was then used as an input to a code that rearranged it. Machine learning was integrated to the code to train the computer to recognise and differentiate between letters and grids. Once a letter is presented, the related grid is applied to the canvas. The outcomes were published in a collection of 26 booklets — each exploring the outputs of the code to a given letter.

There are strict rules determining the letterforms while also mantainning the modular square tiling concept. The special thing about WIM’s grid is its asymmetry wich interlocks neighboring characters. When creating a typeface, I like to aim for a modular toolkit. All my experimental typefaces are based on a system of tiles which lets you fill an entire canvas with glyphs without any spacing in between. These features dictate my typefaces to be monospace and mostly de- and ascenderless.

A monospaced typeface developed around the idea of symmetries, grown out of the desire to mirror shapes found in letterforms and create a visual outcome that abstracts the combinations of letters into geometric images. The typeface was built to includes the Latin letters, numbers and glyphs, and was later extended to the Hebrew alphabet.

In 2021 Parco Studio was invited to the ADI Museum Design project curated by Luca Molinari: “Manifesto alla Carriera. Tribute to Italian graphic designers to the Masters of the Compasso d’Oro”.
We were glad to interpret Ezio Manzini’s contribution, who works in the field of sustainability design, with a particular interest in social innovation, processes and the consequences of design on society, topics related to our professional and personal profile.
The manifesto is about his key concepts: “everybody designs”. We developed it in a typographic key by designing a lettering that reflects the freedom of the sign and the need to integrate individuals and institutions in the design process.

Fingerspelling.xyz is a browser-based app that uses a webcam and machine learning to analyze your hand shapes so you can learn to sign the ASL alphabet correctly. When you sign the word, the camera tracks your hand movements and gives you feedback so you can make corrections as needed. This helps you quickly develop your fingerspelling skills. To address language deprivation and help bridge the communication barrier between the deaf and the hearing, we partnered with the American Society for Deaf Children to create Fingerspelling.xyz.

While Germany was dealing with COVID-19 the situation arose that the corona regulations were changed so often that people no longer knew which rules were applicable at the current time. This led to a confusion that only a minority of people knew if shops were open or closed and what rules were applicable. The poster I made is dealing with this confusion. It is saying “Wenn offen is, is offen wenn zu is, is zu!” which is translated to: “If it’s open, it’s open if it’s closed, it’s closed!”

SOL font is based on two outlooks on the distant future that Stanisław Lem might have lived in between of: a more optimistic outlook in Western retrofuturism he was critical of and a more pessimistic outlook that has been more common in the Eastern Bloc. The more fluid Retrofuturism style has an emphasis on the Y axis that represents the vertical aspirations of man. And the more strict Brutalism style is based on Symmetriad designs found on various Solaris book covers and film posters. The font was designed during a 2019 International Variable Type Workshop conducted by Verena Gerlach and Maciej Połczyński. The name SOL is derived from S.Lem’s sci-fi novel Solaris and the Latin word for Sun.

A series of 80 posters developed for event location Merlin in Stuttgart.

Magnete is a new cultural center in Milan, a unique space of relationship and plurality and culture in the Adriano district. Magnete is art, live performance, training, robotics, work orientation, good food, social and work inclusion, innovation – everything in a big square, a market, a stage, a laboratory, a café, a place of experimentation open to territory and the city.
The typeface is all about the variety of people working within Magnete, everyone is welcomed and invited to participate.

Hordak has been named after He-Man and She-Ra’s nemesis, since they sort of share the same overall look and of course the same bad attitude. Hordak is a variable font developed in collaboration with Leonardo Landoni and soon to be released.
The story behind this font started at the opening event of our new space Parco Gallery in 2019 and turned into a real font during the Covid-19 lockdown.

“Das Runde muss ins Eckige” was originally pronounced by Joseph “Sepp” Herberger right after winning the World Cup in 1954 and it means something like “The rounded thing must get into the squared one”. We teamed up with Palazzi.Club to turn this sentence into a series of five deadstock Nike football t-shirts from the nineties. Each t-shirt is unique and displays a different custom lettering on the chest. All over the t-shirts you can also spot some tiny details of embroidered handwriting.

A font created in code editor, using only ▒ _ ( ) / \, and with unconventional type design rules that are inherent in editor mode.