Logo and type based on the atypical way the Knight moves across the chessboard.

The Knight’s Move was a series of lectures by eminent international speakers who stand out thanks to their unusual, enlightening and inspirational visions concerning the city, urbanism, the public domain and community.

Being creative often requires protected experimentation processes. Ȧdea is an online evolutionary system for aiding type designers in the exploration of unexpected solutions. An algorithm based on Darwin’s theory of evolution is employed to evolve an initial population of SVG glyphs, from Google fonts, towards a set of glyphs that a given artificial intelligence model, named Tesseract, deems to be different enough from existing glyphs. One might use Ȧdea to find disruptive ideas, download the generated glyphs, fine-tune them using vector graphics software and use them to create typefaces, logotypes or any other graphic design applications. By Danie’Lopes, João Correia and Penousal Machado.

The project „AI graffiti ghost tags“ (formerly: The Amazing Augmented Tagger Machine) explores the potential of artificial intelligence in the creative process of graffiti writing. It employs machine learning (ML) to generate novel street tags that transcend traditional letter forms and inspire new type design. The writer is able to live-generate her own ML graffiti tags in the ghostly belly of a deep convolution neural network and then transfer them to a real surface using spray paint. The result is an interactive installation of ML augmented tags in physical space.

Design for TODAY IS A VERY VERY VERY VERY GUMMY PLACE, a curatorial and publishing project by Ruja Press. 99 artists were invited by Ruja Press and received a unique computer generated doodle map. We had to take it as the starting point of a game in relation with a place. I perceived the map as very jumpy and playful. I saw the form of a fence and this lead me to the common pangram ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’. I felt like connecting the dots and lines and see what would appear. I took the map as a starting point to draw all letters from alphabet.

A playful display type that conjure up and distills the feeling of all things satisfying.

Tabi is a display typeface with two weights, regular and super started as a self-initiated project during the type design
course held AT CFP Bauer in Milan. It was released with The Designers Foundry, where is available for purchase, and used by clients like Same Old Skateboard magazine (UK)
issue 408 and their following publication Secret Societies, the platform Outset by Kind Studio, UK and Apple Music.

The letter designs of the type series are meant to lean on the frame and swell within the given square. With a mixture of randomly generated color schemes and varying proportions of these textures, technical-organic structures are created that leave room for individual interpretation. Through the generated shading and contours, many parts of the series look like three-dimensional renderings with depth, which is not really given. Others look like highly simplified, flat illustrations in the style of Futurism or Art Deco.

Printer_block is a project which deals with the abstract positive and negative shapes created when using a font I created for my woodcut work. I’ve always been fascinated by the accidental beauty created by words so much so that I present my woodblocks on their sides and upside down to disguise the way I’ve created these beautiful happenstance shapes. I hope to eventually take some of these happy accidents and make fully abstract works which will have the titles as the words they are derived from even though they have been lost to the pure shapes.

‘Field’ was the name of my bachelor thesis.I wanted to combine not only my love for type but also one of my favourite pastime which was frisbeeing at that time.I had around 140+ images of exisiting frisbees which I used to base the letter ‘a’ off of. I based my typedesigns around designs of new and old frisbees which I found online or came across in real life. I designed around 140 letters ‘a’ and then picked and chose 5 a’s I really liked and made them into the “field” logotype you see here. Afterwards they were put on actual frisbees with designs that were uniform with the logotypes. 

What do you see when one of these letters is taken out of context? For this specific project, I researched the legibility of letters in the Latin alphabet. The aim of this research was to identify to what extent letters can be permuted without becoming unrecognizable. I create letters that become indistinguishable when taken out of their context, thereby raising questions in the process. This is done by utilizing analog materials and techniques that manipulate the shape of the letters.

This typographic poster is a tribute to Benny Goodman who gave a concert with his orchestra in Green Theatre (Odesa, Ukraine) in 1962. It reflects the idea of what his concert poster might look like now.

The custom lettering has been inspired by the experimental and expressive music of jazz and swing, so the letters dance and swing as well.

Misto font is a loveletter to Slavutych — the youngest city of Ukraine, which was born after the Chernobyl explosion.

Misto is a reverse-contrast display typeface. Its squat, expansive letterforms draw inspiration from the shapes of the low, wide buildings in Slavutych, which incorporate architectural styles from eight regions of the former Soviet Union.

Misto font designed to work best in headlines, including logo design, brand identities, websites, packaging and posters. It supports both Cyrillic and Latin versions.

Kreis is a modular typeface with a modern sharp character inspired by the shape of oldschool CD-disk. It consists of three simple modules with the roots in square and circle shapes.

Letterforms create a geometric typographic pattern, but at the same time it remains readable.

Kreis supports basic Cyrillic and Latin versions and works best in headings, logos and strong messages.

Here comes our new Aerobik display typeface! With its unique bouncing aesthetics made of outlines, it does not match any existing typographic style. It refers as much to graffiti in some aspects as to the way motion and speed are represented in comic books.

Conceived to be used with regular case or capital letters, it turns out to be surprisingly readable in both ways.

The experimental aspect of the font resides in the deliberate confusion between outlines, superposition, blank space, loops and angles.

The mixed media artwork WELL WELL made out of wood, HDPE and foam was the starting point for the development of the PERLER FONT. It was fun to create a whole font out of an artwork that was meant to stand for its own.

The work was inspired by my daughter, who’s drive to sing and be an individual is an inspiration for me to be a bolder and more confident artist.

Inspired by sc-fi movies set in the not too distant future, Betatron originally started life as a type experiment on CoTypes Instagram. After receiving an overwhelmingly positive response it quickly developed into a fully functional typeface which is now available to download for free. Betatron features solely vertical, horizontal, and 45° diagonal lines as it tries to capture each letterform in an abstract and dynamic way.

The type family features a Latin Extended character set, covering most languages written with the Latin script.

Betatron is free to use under under the Creative Commons license.

Poster for the conference Unruly Landscapes: Producing, Picturing, and Embodying nature in Early Modernity, organized by Christine Göttler, Ivo Raband, Michèle Seehafer, and Steffen Zierholz at the Institute of Art History at the University of Bern. An organic lettering was constructed after a model by Richard Nebbiolo (Lady Carole). Printed in offset with back and silver.

Poster and Corporate Design for

Typedriven illustration and alphabet for a book review called ‘The Language of DNA Should Rewrite English, Too’ which focuses on the terminology of ‘birth defects’. A piece about language, text and translation in the context of the biomedical world and mainly focused on the early stages of life (and even before). The design is based on how chromosomes are structured and displayed. Of course, the font is not perfectly readable which reflects the main problem stated in the first place; the difference in usage of words with possible dangerous and serious consequences.

https://lennartsendebruijn.com/projects/neo-test

Artwork exploring how our own reality can be totally different, with the same message.

moreless.type is an experimental typography project which treats letter as starting point to serach for a different means of expression.
these works are the impressions on type.