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.
Exp9
The proces begins on a typewriter made in ex Yugoslavia, called Biser 35, that uses a Courier M font. The repetiton of number 9, with one line spacing, resulted with overlapping, creating a pattern in which the number became unrecognizable as a part of the abstract form.
The second stage was to scan the pattern with the photocopier machine, with a unintentional move in the upper part of the display, which streched the scanned form and gave a another experimental touch, creating noise and interference both inside the lines and out, making the apperance more distant from the look that it had on the begining of the proces. The proces is completely experimental, unpredictable and fun.
Dreams
In a dream, we lost our voices.
Our body deteriorated, and soul vanished.
3d printer and a felt-tip pen
To write each card by hand would be a lot of work and also be missing a new technology. It should rather be written by a machine. Is that possible? Without further ado, a pen was attached to the 3D printer and off it went. No, it was nowhere near being that easy. Still – this way was more beautiful, more idiosyncratic and somehow special. Besides, it was new, never seen before. And the interest was too big: how will it work? It was amusing, had a rhythm, made a melody – for hours. It became a catchy tune. The pen had to constantly be put back in place. Every word was critical. It became illegible, it dabbed, it scratched, it smeared – each card was unique.
GTA21
Today we want to share Studio Blok’s design for the GTA21 exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (MOCA). They created the exhibition identity including environmental graphics and printed publication for the museum’s exhibit of 21 local artists.
Greater Toronto Art 2021 (GTA21), a large-scale exhibition and new triennial—brings together 21 of the most energizing artists and art collectives working in Toronto and asks each one of them to consider: “What is urgent to you today?”. Rooted in the profound belief of remembering, storytelling, questioning, resisting, celebrating, and making, this identity and publication had to honor the re-imagining of a city and the artists working in it.
The GTA21 416 page publication, designed by Toronto studio Blok Design, includes interviews between the 21 participating artists/collectives and the curators of the exhibition, images of existing works and those in process, and contributions by writers Dionne Brand, Sheila Heti, and John Paul Ricco. Lightweight colored paper chosen for its transparent qualities, moves in and out of the book blending art and narratives as the exhibit itself.
GTA21—Toronto’s Most Exciting Contemporary Artists
Designers: Bløk Design / Vanessa Eckstein, Christopher Jessop
Editors: Daisy Desrosiers, Rui Mateus Amaral, November Paynter, Brian Sholis
Publisher: Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto
Release: September 29th, 2021
Volume: 416 pages
Format: 19 cm × 24 cm
Language: English
Printers: Artes Graphicas Palermo
Production / Finishing: Paperback, Exposed Linen Bound Spine
ISBN: 978-1-7776120-0-9
Retail Price: € 45.28, CAD 65.–
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Symbolink
Symboink is a series of books archives imaginations derived from common objects. With a set of font ‘Linkers’, 3 books with each worldwide symbols (Celestial tree / Water and Fire / Door and key) convey the intuitive connection between global beliefs.
Dark Revenge
You are born to survive through worries, depression and distress, gambling between the happiness of living to the fullest and the disaster of never making it.
In the end, you tried very hard to climb the mountain of satisfaction but you are just another failure.
Liqua Black
This experimental font was created with pulling lemonade over the glass plate of a scanner. One letter at a time, the challenge was to be fast enough to capture the character shapes before the sugary liquid return back to a rounded form.
OUT OF OFFICE
OUT OF OFFICE is Concrete Nature’s latest risograph printed publication. It features across two volumes the photographic work of international creatives produced between March 2020 and May 2021.
The first volume is set in the urban environments we live and work in. It explores the impact of the pandemic on cities across the globe, our connection to others and nature. The second volume is set in the wilderness of the great outdoors. It examines our longing for natural elements and others in the space of challenging year. Both volumes are an intimate testimony of a tumultuous year; the loneliness, strangeness, and tenderness of it all.
OUT OF OFFICE features Lÿno by Karl Nawrot and Radim Pesko, Gt America by Grilli Type, and Thingbat by John Hersey.
The publication is available on the studio’s online store and £ 1.– from the sale of each volume will be donated to UK based charity The Calvert Trust.
OUT OF OFFICE
Published and Designed by: Concrete Nature
Release: September 2021
Volume 1 + Volume 2: 40 pages
Format: 250 mm × 190 mm
Language: English
Production: Risograph printing
Printed by: Out of The Blueprint
Paper by: Paperback Paper
ISBN (Vol 1): 9781739925604
ISBN (Vol 2): 9781739925604
Price: € 20.–
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