A playful display type that conjure up and distills the feeling of all things satisfying.
Tabi Typeface
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.
36 days of type 2021
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
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
‘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.
A Letter or?
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.
Benny Goodman poster
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
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. Modular Typefcace
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.
Aerobik font
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.
PERLER FONT
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.
Sing Your Song!
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.
Betatron Typeface
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.
Unruly Landscapes
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.
VideoEx 2020
Poster and Corporate Design for
Birth Defect DNA Typeface
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
HOPE
MY OWN REALITY
Artwork exploring how our own reality can be totally different, with the same message.
Type Impression
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.
Experimental Type—Call for Submissions
Get ready, because finally the Experimental Type—Call for Submissions for the upcoming issue of Slanted Magazine has officially started.
Slanted #40—Experimental Type deals with experimental design strategies in typography and graphic design. This issue presents projects incorporating the accident into the design process, works based on mistakes and inaccuracy, fonts that derive from a concept or a system—in the end work that experiments or goes unconventional ways in design. This issue showcases cutting edge approaches as well as new experimental procedures, from processing to ai-generated typefaces or variable fonts.
Graphic designers, illustrators, artists—you’re very welcome to submit your artwork with a statement/quote that explains your work. Journalists, authors, or poets, we would be very happy if you’d contact us by email and talk with us about your text submission. Text contributions are highly appreciated!
Submissions can be uploaded until April 10th, 2022 (the issue will be published in October 2022).
We will curate and review all contributions and get in touch with you afterwards, if your work is selected. Once the issue has been published, you can order a free copy.
Type Portrait: Hangul Alphabet
This project investigates bilingual experiences between English and Korean as experiential typographic forms. Hangul alphabet is an English typeface designed using Korean consonants and vowels for the trans-languaging experience created by Taekyoem Lee. Type Portrait: Hangul explores generative self-portrait photographs. It portrays the typographer’s linguistic and typographic identity using the typeface as a Korean-American. This project transdisciplinary typographic research from typeface design to a contemporary medium such as computational selfies. It brings a new bilingual and trans-languaging experience between Korean and America.
S for Slanted
An animation, made with Processing for the “Experimental Type”-issue of Slanted
Branczyk vs. Ruddigkeit – ELEMENTS
Wish We Were There (poster for Weltformat Graphic Design Festival)
This poster is designed as a boarding pass. During the pandemic we (like so many others) were naturally unable to travel, and as time went on this was one of the things we wanted to do most. In that sense the boarding pass represents this ticket to freedom and the idea of being able to escape from your everyday reality—something we’ve probably all wanted to do a lot during the pas year! So when we started thinking about the Weltformat Festival we ended up talking a lot about this idea of being unable to travel, and hence the idea of the boarding pass as a poster—a way for us to come to Lucerne. On top of this lies the idea of playing with media and formats and to intentionally “misuse” them.