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!

The Glyphs I designed are hard to read and they like to dance. I want to criticize the importance of the visual sense, which is too much connected to our minds and due to this by the manifested structures and conventions of society. Furthermore knowledge is priviledged, I want communication to be accessible or unaccessible for everyone or noone.
Body Type is constructed from one line. This expresses equality. Every body—means every letter—is equal. The letters resonate with one another while they are changing shape. They are connected and in constant exchange. With Body Type I want the reader to question the way we feel and the way we see and life our environment.

There is not much to say, its just numbers written in photoshop with a square brush. It looks ridiculous. It is probably going to be a trend in typography if it’s not already. I should make a font out of it.

Save the world, clear the air, clean the seas.

The type responds to the climate crisis and uses irregular/imperfect circles to suggest the state of the climate.

Is the application of a
rainbow gradient on the letters A, B and C

TEXTURE REIFENSPUR

Is a collection of wheel track textures.

Each graphic is the repetition of a German word related to speed, shaping a pattern to resemble texture.

PURPLE GLASS SEQUENCE

Is an extract of an Excel-made font,
only using the letters A and B.
Both signs explore the visual qualities of light and shadow of glass in a psychadelic atmosphere.

ABC TOMATOE
is the experimental examination between a tomatoe and the first letters of the alphabet.

This typeface was inspired by the shape of cacti, the light reflections you might see if they had a glossy surface, and slightly also the roughness of mountains mixed with the filigree veins of leaves. The font is suitable for titles and looks really well in white on a dark background.

For this typeface, I started with Old Caslon. The first step: print. My printer produces the first printing errors. Then I transferred the letters to linoleum. Thin lines became thicker, curves were no longer round. The next errors. Cutting the letters produced another transformation. Slipping off, tearing out, mistakes happened. Lots and little color affected the appearance of the letters in print. Printing errors caused by too much and too little color. Through scanning and digitizing, these errors finally found their way into a typeface: Mistakes.