Strolling is a poster series on the odds of regular walks through the “Triester” area in Graz (Austria) during the first lockdown. The idea was to imitate the routes walked with type on photos of the passed places.

yourtypeface.com is a variable typeface experiment that enables you to design a typeface from the proportions and forced emotion of your face. Look surprised or uptight, yawn or smile, and let your face design your own typeface.

By combining the variable font technology with face recognition we created a surprisingly fun tool that appeals to everybody. The very personal interaction with the typeface encourage you to make face gym and push your yawn to extremes. It’s fun and it might even keep you fit and young…

Your typeface can be designed, tested and downloaded on yourtypeface.com and used freely for any project you like.

During my second semester at Angewandte I participated in a type-design class and this is what came out!
The display typeface only has uppercase letters yet still has a total of 57 characters. Therefore, almost every letter has two variants to choose from. The typeface is inspired by corners that decided to be round

A typeface made from 20 seconds of tactical cam footage from Germany vs Mexico, 2018. Letters follow player’s formations. Static font styles included: Unorganized, Defensive, Balanced, and Attacking.

I maintain a cyanotype practice in which I construct images using a light-sensitive process and found materials (no computer involved). I enjoy the chance procedure inherent to cyanotypes as well as the challenge they pose to the presence/absence binary: each image is both a thing which *is* there and of a thing which *was* there. In this study, I use found letterforms to create a spectral illustration of abstract language.

Using aluminium foil as tool to distort type & shapes.

Playground is inspired by the geometric grid of a drawing engraved in a building in Plaza San Miquel in Barcelona.
Playground is a game. It is based on 6 elements to be assembled to create letters and other fun shapes.

Playground is inspired by the geometric grid of a drawing engraved in a building in Plaza San Miquel in Barcelona.
Playground is a game. It is based on 6 elements to be assembled to create letters and other fun shapes.

I like to create names for my experimental projects and Morphium is one of them. The first thing the viewer sees is a sort of bitmap alien that is the embodiment of morphium itself. In the background is a sign that reads MORPHIUM LEADS TO DEATH OF THE VICTIM, which again is a made up authorial phrase. The colouring is a little more chaotic and complementary as it suited the subject matter very well.

The Alphabetum series combines digital, analog, and experimental strategies, which work with improvisational modes of visual inquiry. I use the camera as an exploratory tool to exercise my imagination and critically study a repertoire of found objects and materials. I explore typography through objects with transparent, reflective, and porous qualities, which act as agents to modulate and activate color, pattern, texture, light, shadow, and movement in front of the camera. During the process, I am struck by the ease with which typographic forms move in new realms of interpretative possibilities.

I publish an occasional zine called NOWHERE that collects examples of work from my practice. This latest issue is a hand-made tribute to the visual language of grassroots organizations and movements such as Mexico’s Zapatistas and the punk and hardcore scenes in the 80s and 90s in L.A.

The process for making this zine mirrors the earliest attempts and accidents I explored early in my career when designing flyers for a seminal DIY community space founded by my parents called Macondo Espacio Cultural. I used a list of material and methods in its production including dry-transfer lettering, a typewriter, old marking pens, toner, and a fax machine.

Petter is an open and experimental tool to generate simple and complex graphics made out of and based on patterns.
The fully vector-based in- and outputs, alongside the combinable effectors, animation features and type-integration, allow a huge variety of possibilities. Petter was and still is made in Processing and is open source.

Find more insights, patterns and the source code here:
https://www.lafkon.net/petter/
https://github.com/b3nson/petter/

LAFKON received an invitation from Medialab-Prado to work on a campaign for the Libre Graphics Meeting 2013. Focus was to create a design that involves the different voices of people and communities connected to Libre Graphics and reflects at the same time questions and prejudices around the topic. The result was the combination of a global READ/WRITE interface and a generative local poster engine using the GNU/Linux commandline as interface to a diversity of libre (graphics) software.
More insights, all questions asked, all answers given and all posters generated:
http://freeze.sh/_/2013/lgm/
https://forkable.eu/generators/r+w/o/__/SEEME
https://forkable.eu/generators/r+w/Q&A

A funny expression of uncertainty in decision making while traveling with friends.

Fun Typography Experiment Project

Font-remix is a web-based experiment that proposes the process of configuring letter forms at runtime and generating a customized font file for download. Using opentype.js and performing boolean operations on the vector letterforms, two open source typefaces are combined according to a set of grids. This tool has been used in creating the open-source font Robert Brownjohn released through Primary Foundry.

Avogadro ist eine experimentelle variable Schriftart, inspiriert von der Struktur organischer Moleküle, die mich während meines Biologie-Bachelors fasziniert haben. Sie erzeugt eine kontinuierliche Palette von Formen zwischen zwei Polen; einerseits die tatsächliche atomare Struktur des Moleküls und andererseits eine geometrische Display-Schrift ohne Serifen. Die gesamte Schriftfamilie von Avogadro enthält fünf verschiedene Schriften: Molecular, Molecular Black, Formula Bold, Formula Regular und Formula Light. Um die variablen Eigenschaften von Avogadro zu präsentieren, habe ich eine typographische Animation in CSS und HTML programmiert.

General artwork and generative postersystem for VA300 – con/temporary exhibition at Höhmannhaus, Augsburg.

Some looping code and simulated gravity generates and outputs infinite unique variations of vectorbased and printready posters. Printed on cheap b/w-lasermachines and finished with a shiny silkscreen sticker.

Find more impressions and all original generated posters here:
http://www.lafkon.net/what/is/va300/
https://www.forkable.eu/generators/va300/PRINT/SEEME
https://www.forkable.eu/generators/va300/PRINT/o/non-free/

My TYPOEXPERIMENT contains two projects, the first is the Nausea project, where I combine letters from the author’s alphabet with an already known font. I like to make up novel words or phrases as titles for my projects and here the word Nausea was the perfect choice. Furthermore, I move the typography in animation and it creates a kind of embodiment of Nausea. I found it interesting to place the typography on mockups to represent it in an original way. The second project is Morphium, where a strong complementary colour scheme is used, with a bitmap intruder in the foreground representing the morphium itselfand behind it the inscription MORPHIUM LEADS TO DEATH OF THE VICTIM.

A self-directed project directly inspired by Indian string puppets (kathputali | कठपुतली) Merging the storytelling of the string puppets with some experimental Devanagari letterforms, this experimental project recreates an abstract mini puppet-show!