My interest in experimental type design lent itself perfectly to a project I recently did for Nottingham Light Night 2022 where the city was lit up across two days, showcasing various light-based projects. My project, ’A Rebel City in Motion,’ came to life as a projected piece, exploring the rebellious spirit of the city through type and animation. By playing with form, colour, texture and legibility, my project sought to challenge the way we perceive information in a dynamic and rebellious way. The project brought together type and animation which are two important components of my work and the type itself spelt out different positive associations relating to the theme of being a rebel.

“AEON” is a highly experimental poster/artwork design. It express a fear, anxious feelings to the infinite future with twisted and liquefied types.

»fighting for the truth«
80cm x 80cm
acrylic, dispersion paint & thread on canvas, framed
©2022

»how quickly things can change II«
30cm x 50cm
acrylic & dispersion paint on canvas, framed
©2021

»pretending«
50cm x 50cm
acrylic & dispersion paint on canvas, stitched, framed
© 2020

»very well«
30cm x 50cm
acrylic on canvas, stitched
© 2017

Series de collages tipográficos que alteran la posibilidad de lectura del texto. La forma tipográfica oculta su lectura en la visualidad de las figuras. El material base, rescatado de una bolsa de la tienda Forever 21, de pruebas de impresión, y de restos de afiches callejeros, dan nombres a las series y dejan mínimas evidencias de la función lingüística del texto. Los nombres de las series son: “fore-VER”, “M y R en negro y rojo”, y “Punto”.

The work is a typographic interpretation of the Red List of Threatened Plant Species of Germany. The topic of preserving biodiversity is not approached rationally, but through intuition and sensuality. First there was the idea that writing systems and plants have one thing in common: a limited set of characters or shapes. By repeating and assembling the individual parts, an infinite variety of compositions is created. Starting from an original shape – an oval, seven shape alphabets were constructed. Accordingly each of the seven groups of plants has a set of 26 figures – the components of its own language. Using these, the botanical names of 168 plants were set into abstract images.

Versatile and expressive, Autre Display is a contemporary two-axis variable typeface that offers full control over its serifs and oblique angle. Its meticulously crafted high contrast shapes, countless stylistic alternates and the ability to manually open or close its counters allow it to be used at any size and therefore make it a perfect fit for logotypes, visual identities or editorial projects.

Autre Display was designed by Christian Gruber and is the first part of the Autre type family which is currently under development.

Ally is an expressive but delicate typeface that pushes the boundaries of legibility. Its unconventional shapes emerged from calligraphic experiments with the attempt to design characters with only one stroke and only curves. Ally was initially conceived for display situations and short texts but can also evoke interesting textures in smaller sizes and longer texts. It provides a playground for distinctive and vigorous typography.

The Bachelor-Thesis ARTIFICIAL SCRIPT comprises the experimental creation of a potential universal alphabetic script using applied AI. It explores an innovative design approach in order to generate a unique writing system based on a deep-learning generative model. This new alphabetic script is composed out of the Armenian, Cyrillic, Georgian, Greek, and Latin script by making the basic letters comparable and using these as input data. Overall resulting in 64 artificially generated characters and corresponding human-made letter-skeletons, which are built upon a modular system. The ARTIFICIAL SCRIPT can be read across languages, whereas the meaning of the content remains language-dependent.

Tillmono C is a modular skeleton-based display font in three different styles. It combines both aspects of nature and technique as the letter-skeletons were constructed out of 7 modules derived from the plant Tillandsia capitata. The three contour styles were selected from a set of 39 styles created by applying the scatter brush tool in Adobe Illustrator onto the very same skeleton.

Crossing references from the act of travelling as from the railway world, the concept for the interactive facades of this public staircase next to Porto’s central train station, which also poses as a “communication tower”, derives from the informative screens in the stations that display the departures and arrivals.
By using a system of two different colours – the yellow found in the train carriages and the natural metal colour of the tin cans – the possibility to create original and personal messages and images – by turning each can as if in a massive analogical pixel screen -, is offered to the users who would like to actively participate in the constant mutation of the square’s image.

More & More Thoughts is a poster about overthinking.
It visualizes the constant flow of incoming thoughts, which at some point only leads to confusion, feeling overwhelmed and headaches.
The animation triggers these feelings in the viewer and creates interesting distortions of the typography.

Thinking mistakes known as cognitive distortions are irrational thoughts and beliefs that are not based on facts. In other words, these are your mind convincing you to believe negative things about yourself and your world that are not necessarily true. It can be damaging to our mental health. Cognitive distortions type is a display font with different variants in, inspired by thought errors which we frequently encounter in daily life. Letters are based on basic geometric forms such as square, triangle and octagon, taking as reference features of distorted thinking.The letters a,b,d,e,h,m,n,o,r,t vary according to distinctive features of 10 common distorted thinking patterns.

The letter was made for a zine called alphabet of home office, where the goal was to create a letter with an experimental approach. For this letter I explored the material of fabrics to create a form which is influenced by the material itself.

For my bachelor thesis i developed a type family consisting of 3 fonts inspired by the physical states of water. Every font was crafted with great attention to detail to achieve a visual representation of the different properties of the respective material. To complement the experimental display typefaces, i created a more readable counterpart called Plasma which i used for the additional information on the poster.

Font Spectrum combined Daniël Maarleveld’s interactive and experimental design process to Edgar Walthert with the productive experience honed over years working in the type industry. Maximum creativity and originality is paired in this collaboration with professional execution and extended language support. In the playful process of ping-ponging ideas and files, it became evident that a collaboration based on a love of type, shared eye for detail, and contrasting styles creates unexpected results, debuting in Purple Haze.

Font Spectrum combined Daniël Maarleveld’s interactive and experimental design process to Edgar Walthert with the productive experience honed over years working in the type industry. Maximum creativity and originality is paired in this collaboration with professional execution and extended language support. In the playful process of ping-ponging ideas and files, it became evident that a collaboration based on a love of type, shared eye for detail, and contrasting styles creates unexpected results, debuting in Purple Haze.

Trying to teach a computer how to write: a robot learning handwriting
Trough a few rules in the form of simple algorithms with a random component, I try to teach a computer how to write from scratch. A particular calligraphic personality is composed from deliberate choices, mistakes and quirks.

Experimental typography created in after effects and photoshop. All designs were made by duplicating and distorting the same word over and over

Some were used for client work, some for fun 🙂

Experimental type made out of grill trays (and chicken).

Since 2018 I’m designing the exhibition posters for the artist-run space DOC!. As it is a voluntary work, I get total freedom to propose whatever I feel is resonating the artist’s show. This «Carte blanche» frame gives me the opportunity to experiment without constraint writing and reading. Typography is the main element and can transmit a message even without being read. The posters are printed in silkscreen, in one color as budget is low, and hung in the streets of Paris.

For this artwork, which includes two parts, at first a rather minimalist typographic poster with experimental fonts was designed, which was afterwards repeatedly manipulated with the help of a glitching tool by changing some parameters and refreshing again and again. Subsequently, sections of the original poster were replaced by the new manipulated images. The second half of the artwork is again composed of these cutouts.
In an experimental way, this work deals with manipulations left to chance, which are then used in a targeted and conceptual way. This blurs the lines between mistakes and the intended, which complements within the design process.

This experimental typeface was created for dublab, a radio station based in Los Angeles, and was drawn using sound waves that can actually be played as an audio file.

The Typeface MANTIS is based on coral structures and the rapid movements of a praying mantis – both endangered species in our ecosystem