In this last poster that I designed for JazzTM I searched for the right (visual) language through which I would focus on – as vividly as possible – a “frozen slice of time” from the intrinsically complex and nonlinear process of improvisation. Therefore I wanted this poster to represent all these “little things” that exist, whether we believe it or not, far beyond a grand scheme. They exist – harmoniously shaping, singing and reforming continuously, softly. In the end, like everything else, it is down to the beholder’s eyes – or ears for that matter – to perceive the fluid beauty and the magnificent balance existing within.

Letter N is part of Dan Tobin Smith’s Alphabetical series. Starting with a commission from Creative Review to create the cover for their Annual. The project now incorporates 19 letters, comprising of 93 images, 4 films, a host of supporting material including 10×8 inch polaroids and permanent three dimensional pieces. Each letter is different and incorporates a different visual idea. The project makes use of anamorphosis, otherwise known as distorted projection, helping to build the letters with a high degree of accuracy. This was used in commercial photography, in subtler forms going back over the past 50 years as a way of refining composition in still life photography.

The body works emphasize nature beauties at the micro-level of ‘moist’ and reflect the artist’s playfulness with paint medium. The series is currently a part of BE ** PART INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION- which is registered as Guinness World Records Exhibition featuring over 1500+ artists and over 45,000+ artworks in Atelier Montez Gallery in Rome, Italy.

Touchdesigner noise displacement experiments for a brand project led to interesting explorations.

Not actually a mistake or an accident but an affliction. I’ve always been blessed with good vision but when I came down with a severe eyelid infection all the projects I was working on, especially the typographic ones, looked frustratingly blurry. The blurred and double vision effect caused by the swelling inspired me to design a poster for one of my favorite British rock bands of the ’90s.

Inspired by ancient ruined architectures, the typeface embodied the mystery and history quality in the abstract form. The weirdness of each letter coincide the untold story behind each architectural structured letter.

What defines a font? Where does a letter end and an abstract form begin? Who is legibility? Using Processing as a tool for type design lead to thinking about font in a new way. Connected dots form lines and build shapes that construct bold, geometric letters. A Hypervariable font. Each click generates a new letterform – and the previous one is gone forever.

The booklet design and cover art for Implant For Denials’ album Otheroot demanded a diffrent stylistic approach as for it’s Germany release the band translated the whole album in English and released it as a special release containing the two CD’s with the album in both languages.

I’ve chosen the theme of translation as the main drive behind the visual language of this album and built it specifically for this release. The glitch the error – all too present within any type of translation – alongside other cliches were used as building blocks for Implant’s visual language.

Sometimes accidents are a good thing. While designing the new Samson EP, Turpitude, I noticed my shredded laser prints in the trash can would make for a more compelling cover than what I had on my screen.

Design and programming of a font that reacts to the speed of typing on the keyboard.

Manon de Vlieger was in dire need of a suiting identity for her eponymous company. Ranging from creative consultancy to interior design, from developing identities to pottery. It’s safe to say Manon’s quite the busy bee.

With typography as a focus point to create a clear and simple logo and identity, we took De Vlieger’s initials to develop a strong, iconic and recognizable logo. Both suiting the work she does as a freelancer as her craft as a ceramist.

https://lennartsendebruijn.com/projects/manon-de-vlieger

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.