The poster is dedicated to the album “Catacomba” of the Moscow group “Red Banner Division named after my grandmother.”

The main typography of the poster is a metaphor that flirts with the name of the band’s album. An accident is a sensory experience from listening to songs.

Romance Of The Future is a reflection exhibition on the topic of romantic relationships in the future. Is love between humans and artificial intelligence possible? If so, what could it be? Is this relationship perfectly programmed or passionately unpredictable? What’s this? System error and glitch or a real surge of feelings?

The identity of the exhibition of relations of the future is built on the basis of a display variable font, which was created specifically for this project. The font reflects the combination of human tenderness and the unpredictable feelings of artificial intelligence. The character of the typeface can be defined as: a little nervous, romantic, tense, excited.

This project is the outcome of Haocheng Zhang’s ongoing research, understanding the body as an ‘important and fundamental dimension of self-identifying recognition,’ It is not only the physical body but also the notion of the body in a visual context. Breaking down traditional Western-type design constructs, the project explores types inspired by the human form. The Body Experimental Type was created using the body as a medium. Choreography and performance were used to perceive how the type changes and how movements convey the gravity and type emotion. The Body Experimental Type was purchased and used for its exhibition by the University of the Arts London – London College of Fashion.

Spaghetti, it’s a font inspired by Italian western movies. What surprise about the old westerns is the lack of special effects. Everything is done in analog, from sound effects to action scenes, where you can notice some beauties of imperfection. To enclose this experience, Spaghetti font has been completely drawn and painted by hand.

My goal in this project was to break down all the letters of the Hebrew alphabet to the point they can no longer be identified. This was tested by constructing the letters as cubes and placing them on a three dimensional fixed grid. Each of the letters was gradually rotated 360 degrees perpendicular to its horizontal axis.
I began with the third letter Gimel. Once all the letters were ready I played with
different compositions – some were readable and others looked like random cubes floating in black space.
For the presentation of the project I incorporated AR technology and motion to add extra dimension to the posters.

Using everyday ephemera objects like a bottle cap and paper clip to form the basis of its simple typographic form, Offset is a hand-drawn slanted typeface with two weights with interesting proportions, regular and offset. The latter weight was created to introduce fun and quirky imbalanced elements in contrast to its regular appearance.

Trisquare is an Experimental Display Typeface, which is inspired by the strokes of the Fraktur alphabet but developed through the composition of triangular and square shapes. It has a particular ancient soul with a digital taste. Trisquare is good to use for Branding, Signage, Packaging, Advertising, Headlines, Magazines, Book titles, or everything you want to use it for.

GREY ZONE refers to a situation that is unclear or ambiguous. it pivots this original meaning to a more figurative one so that it stresses the fact that when two people come together to form a harmonious relationship, they might have to endure conflict and inevitable clashes in the process. Black and white figures crisscrossed on the paper formulates some letters, and these letters and the back spaces complete the whole picture. In such way, spontaneous moments and choices in our life determine our journey and ourselves as well, and it reminds us we are all floating and living in the grey area.

During Mike’s final exam, he designed and conceptualized ten display typefaces. Part of this work were 30 poster studies, which served to experimentally illustrate the resulting fonts in the form of exhibition and editorial design. Shrooms, showcasing the same called typeface, is one of these 30 posters and is compatible with augmented reality. The typeface and the poster should make the viewer feel like trippin’ through a weirdly colorful forest.

Zwiespalt is a poster that wants to aggressively showcase the political conflict on our planet. Highlight of the artwork is the huge spiky Z letter in the center. Working with a very loud red and black color combination, Zwiespalt just screams for attention and can also be viewed 180°.

The design and naming of Wagnis is inspired by the imperfectionism of the daring experiment the typeface is itself. Every glyph was a first try using the path tool. Without using any sort of grid or rules, Wagnis is made to be a dare of modern and provocative, yet fascinating, type design. With spiky edges and irregular sizing, it is supposed to look like a mistake, yet the aesthetic is so unique and
interesting that you want to take a closer look at every single glyph. The font style of Wagnis is called irregular, because it is everything
else than your regular everyday typeface.

Zelos is an experimental typeface that I created in 2020 which comes with a vertical and a horizontal style. The posters are showcasing both styles and can also be viewed 180°.

For a music venue in London we built a modulator called SoundWaveMachine that transformed sound into a visual. We took various musical sounds that make up the programme and digitally transformed them into unique visual waves. In turn a new logotype was created for each performance, season and staff member.

Perspectiva is a registered charity and a collective of scholars, artists, activists.We created an identity based on an isometric grid showing different perspectives.

The We:deutschland project is about German identity so each letter is made up of the three colours of the
German flag (trikolore). The project is also crucially a study on human dna and the various
components that make up our genetic code – to reference this we created a typeface clearly
made up of different elements, that needs to be decoded.

8x8type is a typeface based on the 8 x 8 grid of a chess board. Each letter is made up of 32
black squares and 32 white squares, as is a chess board. Used for a cardboard chess set and posters.

A box of pencils produced as a promotional piece for a box company. We designed a typeface and illustrations using pencil component shapes. This was used for the identity for Pencil Box, the pencils, the insert and postcards. This typeface is unique to the Pencil Box project and works with the illustrated characters. Five shapes make up the alphabet, punctuation and numbers. Its use carries through from the box, to the insert, the character’s names, the postcard

The font is a playful extension of the type family Weissenhof Grotesk. Based on its Regular style a diverse collection of uppercase vowels has been created by experimenting with analoge as well as digital techniques, using a laser printer, scanner and layout software. The letterings have been designed for the visual identity of the temporary art space Satellit Stuttgart, responding to the ever-changing contexts of Satellit and its participating artists and designers.

Ultimately, I’m trying to capture things that physically can’t be captured in
camera. I usually try to work photorealistically, that is, to create detailed
textures and lighting conditions. In the best case, the viewer should be
amazed and wonder how something like this can be visualized at all. With an
oil painting I appreciate the technique, but also have an idea of how it all came
together. I will continue to work on disguising the traces of my techniques.

Comm-unity is human

…и вовсе не друзья

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