To celebrate the opening of Carhartt WIP Kuala Lumpur TRX in January 2024, a set of limited editions was designed, including a T-shirt and a sweatshirt. Both items feature a reworked Carhartt WIP ‘C’ logo and graphic artwork using typography and abstract elements.

Wage against the machine is a hybrid project between typographic & artistic research practice enhanced by Ismahane Poussin.
When she began her project, her desire was to hijack the tools of fashion, and more specifically knitting, to turn them into a space for typographic and protest questioning, exploring the border between patterns and letters with messages against fast fashion. She works with hacked machine (brother kh910 + arduino connected to an open source software, Ayab).

Rites is where garments and threads hold hidden narratives, blending sustainability with artistic expression. Deadstock fabrics become limited-edition collections, weaving sustainability into style. Our canvas transcends fabric, becoming a tapestry for the mind. Hand-illustrated graphics and cryptic messages blend with traditional typesetting, crafting a visual language inspired by Renaissance codes, long Los Angeles nights, and the spirit of individuality.

“And That’s Fine Too” is a typography-driven project that embodies a nonchalant acceptance of any situation as fate and encourages living in the moment. The design features a serif typeface, hand-drawn onto a canvas tote.

Soft Type is a collection of typefaces designed for knitting color-work. Each typeface has a “Regular” and “Charted” version and some include multiple scales so you can fit type on your knits, no matter the project’s size.

These typefaces were designed with machine knitting in mind, but could be used for hand knitting, needlework, bedazzling, or many other textile crafts.

All fonts are available through Google Fonts.

People are entrusting the future to the virtual world, but the real world is very much ravaged by war and injustice, while women’s rights are in regression.

It’s time to shift our attention back to the world around us, pick up our spears in this never ending battle for equality and liberation.

The dress consists of excerpts From “Wið færstice”, and “For a Swarm of Bees”. Two charms that described valkyries.

Garment Design by Xixi Tong
Variable Typeface “Spears” by Knife Knife

Custom font Grotteccini for Gaia Segattini Knotwear, an artisanal knitwear brand founded and directed by Gaia Segattini. The brand is made in Italy, is sustainable, innovative, and produced in synergy with a manufacturing company of excellence from Le Marche region. Unisex clothes and accessories made from Italian fine-quality leftover yarns, with creative and contemporary design.
PEOPLE – Knitted scarf, 50% wool, 50% PL / 200cm x 25 cm

it’s a digital artwork focused on the interior labels of our clothing usually printed on a white nylon tag in a simple black font as is also the case for most fashion brand names. they’re the passport to our clothes giving information on where they are made and how to preserve them. designed to be understood by all of us, the universality of laundry symbols helps give them a timeless quality. clothes definitely have a long history before arriving in our hands and become part of our identity

From 2020-2022, Marie Lécrivain started a research project at the Atelier national de recherche typographique in Nancy, entitled “Banane Bleue: matrix-based writings & post-industrial stories”, which led her to develop a type family, embroidered typespecimens & typographic samplers as homages to textile designer and publisher Thérèse de Dillmont.

Do we fill clothes with our bodies or do clothes envelop our bodies?

KODAMA is a grotesque, experimental Far-East writing system based, latin typeface with more than thousands ligature combinations with sharp strokes and strong contrast. Designed for Pinetime’s AW22-23 collectionand is influenced
by the Japanese alphabet and writing systems. Retaining its characteristics and traits where a kanji sign means a word, it’s transformed into a Latin system and made a contemporary, all caps, sans-serif typeface.

Clothing always has a shape.It can emphasize the silhouette, it can also hide it, it can be official or casual, it can be comfortable or restrict movement.How the shape of clothing can change in motion, in the absence of a person, in a crumpled state, flying, taken off by a person?What is the relationship between body and clothing?What happens to a piece of clothing when it loses its body?What does a disembodied dress tell us?Do we fill clothes with our bodies or do clothes envelop our bodies?

The Balaclava transcends its role as a mere accessory. It becomes a powerful tool of communication. It provides a voice for individuals seeking anonymity, empowering them to creatively express their thoughts and emotions with customizable letter placement.

Transitions
We use clothes carelessly every day.
Just as we use language as a matter of course and carelessly.
What if language is not just a tool, but becomes a major work?

We question things and can free ourselves from commercial patterns and fast fashion.

It’s about a piece of clothing that is always wearable, always fits. Like the sweater in all seasons.
Why not take a playful approach to language and clothing.

An increasing number of people – mostly men – have felt threatened by critical voices questioning the conventional concept of the term. ‘Make masculinity great again’ is often used as their slogan – an unmistakable homage to the former US president Donald Trump, a man who arguably embodies the conventions more than anyone else. This work is a comment on this phenomenon. The message is not just to question the concept of masculinity but rather to argue that we should get rid of it completely.

Paul Troppmair created a unique lettering design for the Viennese Music-Duo Laikka’s album »Bleach.« The experiment involved transferring these letters onto fabric using a solution of bleach and water. By employing different sprays, the outcome showcased vibrant results with intricate details. The process allowed for every piece of merchandise to be unique.

Fashion serves as a means of expressing one’s identity. It acts as a subtle form of communication, carrying one’s self-image into the public sphere. The DIY-Identity KIT allows each individual to design and customize unique typographic fashion pieces through stencils, providing the opportunity for flexible expression of one’s identity. In contrast to pre-made fashion that follows specific trends, the KIT enables the authentic representation of personal preferences and expressions.

The “🅰️➡️🅱️” collection offers versatile scarf-transformers for the fashion-forward individual.
Embroidered with “🅰️➡️🅱️” (from A to B), these scarves symbolize the strive and journey to a better future. This concept empowers dreamers to co-create! Each scarf can be assembled in 1, 2, or 3 parts for endless customization.

The feminine urge to set boundaries and state facts. „MVP – Most Valuable Pussy“ is the definition of a real Baddie. She mastered the balance between her inner sweet girl and mean bitch. She’s smart and witty, soft and seductive. She clearly has it all because she walks with God.

For the cover graphic of ABSATZ magazine, several pieces of graffiti were visually explored to transform the style into a wordmark. The contrast between the free, spontaneous aesthetic of street art and the more formal, sterile-looking graphic design reflects the diversity within this subculture. While the graffiti tag appears inflated, the interplay with the grotesque font of its digital translation gives it a kind of skeleton around which the bubble style can wind itself and gain a foothold.

NOTA is a Latin word and has many meanings, such as: brand, letter, label, inscription, mark etc.

This is the brand name of a fictional streetwear brand for which Salome Frenzel created a logo design using a self-made bubble type. The logo is depicted on a shopping bag, which is not only intended to contribute to sustainable shopping, but also fits a laptop, water bottle etc. and is therefore perfect as a daily accessory.