Type and Image inspired on Paris

PoseType was started in spring 2020 by Michael Kreß and Erik Seitz. The idea was to push the boundaries of what can be achieved with the OpenType “font variation” feature in a playful way. We explored the concept of an installation in which the user interacts with a glyph in an approach slightly more unusual than the slider game you normally know from variable fonts.
PoseType encourages the user to explore the design space of different glyphs which we designed especially for this project. With a pose estimation framework we keep track of certain key points of the users body to then calculate a value for the variable font axes. From there we can display specific transformations of the glyphs.

Disrupted type using 3D refractions on a custom typeface. All designed to fit the music on this sferic records vinyl release.

Pixel-based experimental type. The process was amazing and it turned out really fun.

DEFORME is a unicase type display font, comprising the Adobe Latin 2 set, with more than 350 characters. It was created to be used in digital media, in spaces like music, publishing, fashion, etc.

Its form is inspired by psychedelic typefaces, its personality is incongruous, its development experimental, and its substance is liquid. It has audiovisual bases, which were an important part of its morphological proposal.

If you are someone who seeks to break the rules, liberal and without fear of what they will say, this is your typeface. If you dare to use it, it will behave better in spaces such as headlines and short texts, since it likes to be the interpreter of its own story.

The FOAM typeface was made from a typographic experiment using letterforms from the font “Times New Roman”. The intent of my investigation was to experiment with letters as an art form. As a result, I created cropped letters as unrecognizable compositions. I added black and white textures, such as cardboard, window nets, image distortion, and spray foam to each abstract piece. I gravitated towards the rough uneven surfaces of spray foam, a material that allowed me to create a unique typeface.

We have developed another, lighter typeface of the Ripple font family with eighteen lines in the letterform. The character is smooth and harmonious, and its missing rigid structure makes this font perfect for any kind of visual experience. Each letter interacts with any letter of the typeface to produce unique combinations. We wanted to take the lined forms to the next step and obtain more illustrative variations of the Ripple font without compromising on the idea. Ripple Swing Display font is made for showing off in posters, headlines, and on large-scale implementations.

„Am Ende Licht“ ist eine typografische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Sprichwort „Es gibt Licht am Ende des Tunnels“. Gerade jetzt, in Zeiten vieler Krisen, ist nicht immer klar, dass der Tunnel endet, wir ihn passieren können und danach wieder unter Sonnenlicht stehen werden. „Am Ende Licht“ ist in hellen, lebendigen und warmen Farben gedruckt, die nicht nur Hoffnung geben, sondern den Betrachter auch beruhigen. Denn ja, es gibt Licht am Ende.

Panorama is a colored monospaced font that emerges from a desire of finding other visual ways of communication and transmission rather than using typography and letters.
This book depicts and illustrates the diverted using of “Glyphs”, known as a software allowing the construction of fonctional fonts.
Led by an ongoing process of creating a font in a paradoxical
modern way, this diverted use software allowed the creation of a visual typography. It permitted to generate different panoramas thru the creation and the construction of this monospaced font.
Behind this collection of landscapes hide a real alphabet made with a font-tool. A new way opening a door to the creation of new alphabets

A book about David Lynch’s ‘Mulholland Drive’. The book consists of extracted phrases and words from the film, which hints at the film’s overarching multi-layered narrative. The text are treated simply, such as slicing, stretching and blurring. However, these simple forms are given the freedom to juxtapose and add complexity to one another, depending on the pages the reader flips. Each page layers onto one another and the multiple layers begin to formulate different varying complexities. At some point, text becomes image and it’s difficult to distinguish the boundaries between them. The loose nature of the book lets the reader navigate between clarity and complexity, on their own.

A celebration of monastic life

2021 marked a thousand years of Monastic life in the Dutch province of Brabant. Graphic design has a rich tradition that is closely linked to monastic life. It could be argued that the monastic scriptoria laid the foundation for the spreading of knowledge and contemporary graphic design. To allow people to (re)discover the origin and value of handwriting, an interactive installation was conceived. Thanks to an automatic process, each collected manuscript was converted into a digital font. Finally, all thousand manuscripts will be bound in a book, resulting in a Gesamtkunstwerk of handwriting by the people of Brabant: the Manus Brabantiae.