An audio-visual installation where a projection on the wall is displaying a variable typeface which reacts to the volume (from a simple rectangle to a distorted extrapolation) of five tracks originated from a series of sound recordings of the printing presses housed in Archivio Tipografico. The concept is to valorize the soundscape of a printshop, familiar to the printer as the voice of a friend and to paradoxically compare noises to voices. The music tracks were dubbed on cassette and literally packaged within a book, printed with the same machines that were recorded. The dustjacket is the poster that was printed live during the first performance. https://tinyurl.com/2p9cb7xj
Surface N° 2
Surface N° 2 is the second edition with which the paper brand Arctic Volume presents international artists and their works—this time under the heading of hyperrealism. The 15 artists featured—including Wang & Söderström, Cody Cobb, and Namsa Leuba—show images in which reality and fantasy merge, boundaries dissolve, and irritating perspectives are exposed. On view are cityscapes, landscapes, and scenic compositions, as well as portraits of animals and people.
Surface N° 2 is an edition that features the work of internationally well-known artists and collectives who achieve fascinating multilayered effect in a wide variety of picture narratives. From cityscapes and landscapes, to scenic compositions, and to portraits of animals and people, the range of interests represented by these artists through the camera lens is wide. Their extremely multifaceted and high-resolution perspectives on the world are emphasized by paper from the Arctic Volume Range—with its outstanding print quality, distinctive surface, and natural feel.
Contemporary photography is characterized by strong contrasts. In digital media, image production is characterized by repetition and transience. Professional visual art, however—created with very high standards—is concerned with originality of authorship and permanence. But for both approaches, hyperrealism has become a benchmark.
Digital filters and editing tools are constantly being improved, making mass photography snapshots look like high-end works of art. But photographers, who hold on to the value of an individual image, create a hyperrealistic rendering of the world through attention to great detail—with precise motif choice and thought-through compositions as the distinguishing factors. Their artistic treatment has the goal of deepening the content of the image, making several hidden layers visible to the eye and, in effect, creating an artwork that is even more realistic than reality.
Hyperrealism describes the portrayal of something that aims to be “realer than real”—the exaggerated image of an existing object that unravels its minute details and normally imperceptible facets. Reality and fiction seamlessly blend together so that there is no clear distinction between where one ends and the other begins.
Surface N° 2
Artists and collectives: Anabela Pinto, Anders Brasch-Willumsen, Andrés Mañón, Bea De Giacomo, Cody Cobb, Filip Dujardin, Haw-lin Servicees, Jacques Brun, Livia Corona Benjamin, Lous Heilbronn, Namsa Leuba, Peter Bialobrzeski, Reinhard Hunger, Vincent Schwenk, Wang & Söderström
Concept and design: JUNO
Printer: Göteborgstyckeriet
Bookbinder: Nilssons Tyckeri
Paper: variety of different paper types from the Arctic Volume range—including four different shades and grammages between 90 to 300 g/m².
Surface N° 2 is available as a limited edition and only while stock lasts, you can order it here.
Punch Cards
The initial problem was to manually produce, with a black marker, different designs for the letters that make up the word “pandemonium”, within the limits of a punch card, consisting of 96 rectangles. For each letter, 20 cards were created in a total of 220 cards, which include variations in thickness, size, serif, sans serif, uppercase and lowercase.
Some designers mistakenly assume that breaking the grid will make the project look astounding; nonetheless, a creative solution might lead to the task of finding something surprising within the narrow limits of a problem.
character count
This is a series of screenprints titled “Character Count”. They are the result of continuing visual research exploring combinations of technological and conceptual layering.
Out of Sight
Eyeball
This video is part of an extended research project exploring visual rhetoric through motion design, print design, typography, photography, and videography.
contradictions
This recent motion work is the product of an exploration and dialogue focusing on the contradictory nature of race relations on a personal level.
Transcode Manifesto
Poster series for Chelsea Thompto’s Transcode Manifesto, Produced by CODELab (KT Duffy + alejandro t. acierto), and designed by Jonathan Sangster.
“Transcode is numerously trans, meaning it enacts and explores trans in its, subjects, methods, themes, and forms”
Racist
These pieces were designed as visual commentary regarding the continued and pervasive state-sponsored violence against BIPOC people in the United States.
The Context That Shapes
Largely informed by typography, my work often deconstructs letterforms with the intent to reconsider the relationship between message and viewer, encouraging a viewer to not simply read and consume a message but engage with the piece to seek out the message. I believe a message isn’t about reading, but about finding meaning. This abstracted approach presents the viewer with an opportunity to pause and reflect on the piece while considering their own relationship to the meaning through a more visual language.
The Next Hundred Years
Largely informed by typography, my work often deconstructs letterforms with the intent to reconsider the relationship between message and viewer, encouraging a viewer to not simply read and consume a message but engage with the piece to seek out the message. I believe a message isn’t about reading, but about finding meaning. This abstracted approach presents the viewer with an opportunity to pause and reflect on the piece while considering their own relationship to the meaning through a more visual language.
Gierig
Poster utilising my own experimental script font fshine.
Genetic Peasant
Typographical installation at KASK, Gent. Made by applying two colours of round neon stickers in relation to each other on a wall. Inspired by dystopian sci-fi anime and linked to a publication telling the narrative of the “genetic peasant” through collages of different existing anime stills.
I am a r
The personal manifesto wants to provocatively challenge censorship and social norms, claiming ownership of one’s body and consent to show it.
The typography plays with the body parts it interacts with, in a teasing conversation between censorship and the willingness to disrupt it.
Candy
Studio New Year’s greetings for a sweet 2022!
No. 3 Series
Today we want to introduce you to No. 3 Series—a typeface for a variety of large scale applications by Road to Venice Type.
No. 3 Series is created to be used for titling, visual identities, books, magazines, mobile patterns, and websites. It has the characteristics of humanist letters, borrows from periods before and long after the Renaissance—the increased contrast, and is drawn into a contemporary context.
The typeface covers three widths in large steps, Normal, Narrow, and Poster, and has numerous ligatures. Furthermore No. 3 Series is to a large extend influenced by writing and cursive writing. For example the principle behind the shapes of the a, d, p, and q of the lowercase alphabet is the rotation of an italic letter written with a broad-nibbed pen. Italic handwriting usually has a slope which in this case is reduced to zero, but the underlying theoretical strokes are preserved.
Road to Venice Type is a new and independent type foundry that strives for meaningful, yet functional typography.
No. 3 Series
Foundry: Road to Venice Type
Release: October 2021
Styles and Weights: 3 widths from Normal to Poster with 3 weights respectively, Regular to Heavy
File Formats: otf, woff2 + Trial fonts
Price Single Style: € 35.– to € 45.–
Price Each Family: € 75.– to € 95.–
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Tools
A font called Tools built from actual tools.
Krzaki Gallery
Krzaki is a micro gallery founded by Jacek Rudzki and Radek Sadlik. Every month we invite two local designer with different styles to create a poster specialy for our gallery.
Yumm… ASIT!
Yumm… ASIT! dates back to my first attempts at illustration and merges the shape of a heart with the typographical silhouette of the name. The icon used to be my very first logo, and I would use it in every artwork I made.
This particular work is inspired by the hot Italian summer days I spent daydreaming about all the lovely ragazze I didn’t have a shot with. 😉
Schrift. Wahl und Mischung
Today we would like to introduce you to the publication Schrift. Wahl und Mischung by Kai Büschl and Oliver Linke that can guide you in deciding on the right typeface for your next design project.
Again and again the same question: Which font is the right one for my project? Oliver Linke and Kai Büschl, both type experts and type designers, have created a comprehensive work that systematically approaches the topics of font selection and font blending, and offers well-founded assistance. How to correctly assess aesthetic, functional, technical, but also legal aspects and thus professionally select and combine fonts is explained in detail and with many examples for the first time in the book Schrift. Wahl und Mischung.
From an examination of letterforms to stylistic history and classification possibilities, Schrift. Wahl und Mischung lays the foundations that will enable you to recognize the impression and character of a typeface and thus make the right choice. To be able to select the right typeface, you need to understand the requirements that different areas of application, such as linear reading, brand typography, or commercial typography, place on the typefaces to be selected. This will enable you to argue your case to colleagues and customers with well-founded criteria! Font mixing is not a secret science! This book provides you with the necessary knowledge about proportions and typeface history. The authors use examples to show you the requirements for font blending and the methods you can use to achieve a successful combination.
Kai Büschl studied communication design and now runs his own design studio. He started his self-employment as a designer and illustrator, and now teaches at various universities. Oliver Linke studied communication design and art history and now works as a designer, consultant, and teacher.
Schrift. Wahl und Mischung
Publisher: Rheinwerk Design
Author: Kai Büschl, Oliver Linke
Release: 2021
Volume: 399 pages
Finishing: Hardcover, thread stitching
Format: 21 × 28 cm
ISBN: 978-3-8362-6171-5
Price: € 49.90
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Selfish
A typographic exploration of the word “selfish.”
Crisis: 2000 Years of History
“Crisis” is a Greek word that describes a critical situation and the process of evaluating. “Critique,” “criticize,” “critic,” and “critical,” all derive from the same root. This project is a retrospective of the word “crisis,” documenting its various shifts in meaning throughout history. Large posters (5×8 ft) were cut and folded to form a 156-page, unbound book. In its own unstable state, the book communicates that a crisis may have several perspectives that require acknowledging, engaging, and accepting it as a temporary situation that will bring about the new and unfamiliar. “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born.”
ana (dingbat font)
logo and dingbat font called “ana”.
Alright
I had the chance to design this shirt for the german band KYTES. I was super thrilled when Tim, the drummer of the band contacted me and told me about his idea for a shirt design that should be part of their new merch-collection. The lettering is inspired by my original handwriting, which I painted with watercolours and digitilized afterwards to get it printed on the shirt.