Illustrated Letterforms

In this experimental design, typography visually represents the initial letterforms of the words “roots” and “bread in arabic.” The letter for “roots” is designed with branching, organic shapes to symbolize growth and stability, while the letter for “bread” features rounded, textured elements that evoke warmth and nourishment. This approach enhances the understanding of each word by reflecting its meaning through its visual characteristics.

Lauta

Lauta is a german font where lip-reading becomes typeface. Tied closely to sound, Lauta encourages speaking and experimenting. By mimicking the respective mouth shapes, one can easily determine the sound it represents. Instead of traditional letters A to Z, each glyph in Lauta embodies the mouth shape for specific sounds, transforming “lauter” to “lauta.” This approach makes Lauta a font for vocal exploration and discovery.

Latent Type

AI tools for image generation and manipulation are developing very fast. Yet, their utility for designing typography remains limited. ‘Latent Type’ explores different ways of working with Text-to-Image models – as one of the most recent additions to said tools. It analyzes available settings, inputs and finetuning options, both with the aim of creating experimental letter shapes as well as fonts. It moreover explores the role of human and artificial intelligence in a shared design process.

Paper, Heart

In this Arabic typography design, the quote “Rumi said, ‘Love is not written on paper, Love is inscribed in the heart'” is rendered through white paper folds and cuts in origami and kirigami. The sharp-edged, monochromatic letters underscore the fragility of physical mediums contrasted with the enduring nature of love inscribed in the heart, emphasizing the purity and lasting impact of Rumi’s message in a diptych design.

Sarının İzi

We designed the communication campaign, motion graphics, social media posts, promotional materials, and exhibition graphics for the Sarının İzi event, which turns iconic yellow Ytong packaging into canvases and construction sites into open-air galleries.

Sarının İzi begins as an urban art intervention with works by artist Meltem Şahin, illustrator Burak Beceren, and the versatile design studio Piknik Works spreading across Istanbul, all based on Ytong’s iconic yellow packaging. The creative con

Thermal Printer Concrete Poetry

We, as designers, constantly strive to improve our skills, tools, materials, and workflow. This is a normal part of our work in the capitalist market. But what if we consciously downgrade our own tools?

This visual poetry is created on a simple thermal printer using only two non-letter symbols from its limited basic glyph set. By abandoning content and message, we gain the opportunity to focus more on sensations and form creation.

Image Making

Riso poster for the seminar “Image Making” by Robert Franke. The design is based on analogue photograms of ice letters and water in a petri dish. The project was created in the printing workshops at FH Aachen under the direction of Robert Franke. Student assistant: Franka Riesterer.

Salam

“Salam,” the Arabic word for peace, is depicted through Arabic typography using dots and lines. This design approach contrasts the simplicity of the elements with the profound concept of harmony. Dots and lines, basic yet powerful, transform into a symbol 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.

Kaza, Köpek, Kahvaltı ve Yumurta

In the play, the theme of parallel universe and simultaneity was created with a visual expression on the poster where the typography was positioned in the center and the reflection behavior was heroized. Thus, the audience, who encountered the poster before coming to the play, was given a small clue about this parallel world and simultaneity.

Thernon Short Film Festival

Thernon (Θερνόν) is a nomadic short film festival featuring Greek directors, traveling to unique remote locations like small vineyards, ancient ruins, and secret gardens. Inspired by Odysseus’ journey, its identity emphasizes topos, the locality. The title uses Apla, an old Greek serif typeface, while Monument Grotesk, a sans serif typeface, highlights the contrast between poetic locality and neutrality. Blurry, noisy typography symbolizes cinema’s essence and the festival’s constant movement.

Stravastraat

Stravastraat has a total distance of 13,6 km, it’s appearance defined by 26 runs within a city structure. Lines represent the route and dots represent turning points. Looking from above, looking at the city as a two-dimensional surface, a neighbourhood determined a baseline and height, the individual characters then designed by way-finding within the pre-designed street grid. This typeface was run in the year 2022, based on the grid of the streets of the neighbourhood De Baarsjes in Amsterdam.

Barbed

“Salam,” the Arabic word for peace, depicted through barbed wire Arabic 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.

Variac

This system has been designed to use the turntable as the main instrument for composition, given its specific characteristics for use and interpretation. The development of the module’s design is thought to articulate a range of sounds, from simple phrases to more complex combinations. Using the turntable as an instrument involves the use of sound fragments from vinyl, so this tool allows to record the length of the sample, including cuts or silences, as well as beginnings and endings of sounds.

Parascolaire

Workshop investigating the creation of modular typographic characters inspired by the architectural heritage of the city. The participants had to create a modular grid based on their favorite heritage building in proximity of the workshop and create a complete alphabet using the grid as the main creation method.

No one is Impeccable.

The poster is the Arabic phrase that translates to “No one is Impeccable,” highlighting that everyone makes mistakes and has flaws. It encourages embracing imperfections for growth, learning, and resilience, reminding us that perfection is an illusion. The artwork’s typography, inspired by geometric Arabic letterforms and utilizing Gestalt theory, creates a cohesive and impactful visual message by emphasizing whole patterns over individual components.

INDEX Mono

Censorship is the withholding of information and happens in two extreme ways: by blackening and by disappearing. INDEX Mono is an experimental font that combines these two extremes of censorship. As a variable font, it shows censorship not as a binary, but as a gradual process. The font aims to draw attention to the ways censorship alienates us from reality as it causes us to lose the links through which we interpret the world.