The author hates prepress. There are always problems: he sends files in the wrong format, uses the wrong color mode, or forgets to convert fonts to outlines. Missing fonts are one of his least favorite mistakes.

“Salam,” the Arabic word for peace, depicted through barbed wire typography, powerfully contrasts the harshness of conflict with the longing for harmony. The barbed wire, often a symbol of division and pain, transforms into an emblem of hope and resilience. This visual metaphor emphasizes that true peace emerges not from the absence of struggle but from the ability to transcend and reshape the barriers that divide us.
 

This animation is the mosaic of FiftyFifty’s first edition, themed “Positive Synonyms.” In our challenging times, qualities like humanity, love, care, understanding, and tolerance are not just desirable but essential. Words hold immense power.
Students from all over the world and with diverse backgrounds have created uplifting, reflective lettering designs. At FiftyFifty, we combined their work into a multi-language mosaic animation of positivity, inspiring individuals to work towards a better w

Inverted Structure examines the fine Lin between chaos and order, abstract forms and concrete meaning behind a letter, art and design, contrast.

This is an excerpt from it’s specimen, offering a brief glimpse into the Systemtype project “Limitations + Variations = Program.” This experimental endeavor aims to design a typeface system based on various axes, such as grids, modules, their variations, and the elemental construction of letters. The grid-based typeface system generates a multitude of variable fonts by varying limited modules and letter concepts. Hamburg, 2024.

Animation work for Nechto Records releases delivers powerful, emotional, and groovy visualizations across various electronic music genres, from hard groove techno to ambient and IDM. The audioreactive visuals are crafted using algorithmic instruments in Touchdesigner and Cavalry, creating a dynamic interplay between sound and visuals. This innovative approach captures the essence of the music, providing an immersive experience that enhances the emotional impact of each track.

This piece recreates the apathy of a person and the lack of connection outside the mobile / TV screen.

Inspired by the precision of a ruler, the Scale typeface embodies the principle, “If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.” This font also serves as a measuring tool, with each character capable of representing a unit of measurement—be it 1cm or 1inch. By enabling precise measurements through its characters, Scale supports both creative and practical applications. Beyond its beauty, the interactions it encourages during use uncover deeper meanings, enhancing understanding and performance

Anger is a difficult emotion to express, particularly for someone who has always been shamed or even threatened for showing it. This work serves as a powerful means to articulate this emotion through carefully crafted typography and bold statements. At the heart of this piece, the depiction of animals amplifies the ability to channel and express emotions, emphasizing the theme of strength.

The Cyrillic letter “b” is hand drawn with marker and a pencil. This in an ode to the creative process made by hand.

Kukhva means flower pot in Ukrainian. That’s what the author named his font, inspired by the violets (the flowers) in his mother’s garden.

Anti-Alphabet – a study on subjective and abstract visual language inspired by the shapes of letters.

A person should experiment for fun.

Inspired by the letterforms adorned with spiraling swirly roots and leaves in “Kunstrichtige Schreibart,” a seventeenth-century German calligraphy publication. The graphic is a altered version of an almost unreadable capital “E” (of “Experiment”) that appeared in the book. The letterform was scanned, photocopied, then rescanned again while rotating the printout in the direction of the spiraling ornaments, with the distorted end-result showing visible traces of analog and digital editing.

Poster for Intangible Festival a festival about art and tecnology

The Designers Task was to create an article on a topic relating to mistakes while incorporating “mistakes” in the typography and choose to make it about videogame glitches. To match the topic the designer used ascii art for illustrations and Textboxes.

TG – Vienna Type is a project about gates in Vienna and how their function became more important than their appearance over time. As a result, a font has been created that consists of components extracted from gates in Vienna, based on a grid system, resulting in a flexible visual system.

Catalogue and exhibition about Maria Sanmartí, a mid-20th century painter. Mother of the painter Antoni Clavé, she was highly recognized in Europe and in our country, but was absurdly forgotten. In this project, we have sought to create a dialogue between the created identity and the irregular forms, as well as her innocent and carefree brushstrokes.

Scroll is a manually created experimental typographic book that reflects the amount of time we spend on social media platforms every day. The book reflects on this scrolling. The total time spent is represented by the weight and thickness of the book – it’s like an encyclopaedia, and the momentary attention is represented by the fact that we can ‘read’ this book, scroll through it, in 5-10 seconds – just like we do with an Instagram reel.

Paris brutal typeface, shifted, destructed system.

States grotesque
States G works with the ever-relevant quirky elements of early american grotesques which in the
process of visual synthesis were tamed to the perception and expectations of modern spectator.
During reserach, while prawling late 19th century type specimens my attention got caught by
“bitten” letter t. Just about time when in the capital of United States Statue of liberty got erected,
dosens of various type foundries were struggling to come up with best serifless font.

Difraccions is an experimental music festival for which we have designed the visual identity. In 2023, the festival revolves around reinterpretation. Inspired by concrete poetry of the mid-20th century we created dynamic forms that interact with the theme of this edition.

Helvetica is considered to be the perfect font. However, is perfection possible? Is there a one and only one answer to a question? What if we consider all possibilities. This font is the result of using all the different weights of Helvetica at once. A vain effort to find the grey between the absolute white and black.

I let KI do all the work and extracted a set of glyphs from dall-e and playground AI. EEVA is for juicy headlines for crazy album artworks, cool shape patterns for your next publication or make funky posterstuff for your BFF’s birthday party at the secret location next week –