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.
Lost Objects Found Numbers
A typographical experiment in creating numbers out of semi-random shapes found on Berlin streets. The rule was to pick the objects of three primary colors (red, blue, yellow). In black and white version those objects are whitened out.
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.
Nincs is korlát
Spatial installation at MOME University Campus in Budapest. The name (“There is no limit”) is a wordplay on the fact that the word “korlát” can mean both a physical barrier and a limit in hungarian.
Welcome to the Machine
Stella Kornfeld’s project, “Welcome to the Machine,” investigates the potential of 3D programs in graphic design to generate innovative forms. By leveraging advanced 3D software, Kornfeld explores how these tools can create new visual languages and challenge traditional design conventions. Her work demonstrates the transformative power of 3D technology in expanding the boundaries of graphic design, offering fresh, dynamic perspectives that push the field into new, uncharted territories.
Space_firsttry_02-space_v01
In this type design project the boundaries between result and process are fluid. Inspired by a lettering piece by Hans Findling, the creation of a complete alphabet was initiated. The project explores the process of designing a font using both analog and digital tools alternately, from which an independent visual language emerged. Through editing and layering in various image editing programs, new, sometimes abstract image layers emerge, opening up new compositions and spaces.
Wolke 7
The glyphs of the word contain fragments of decorative elements from the Art Nouveau typefaces of the Klingspor Archive in Offenbach and parts of patterns that result from marbling paper with water and colors. Using a modular principle, a handful of glyphs has been created from a few elements. For me, designing typefaces in the sense of Art Nouveau requires a certain letting go of rules and the will to design emotionally. Maybe it helps to be in love, on cloud 7.
under pressure
This experimental setup is a winking commentary on the 3D, glossy, blubbery, chrome-type aesthetics increasingly generated by designers using the latest software. In ‘under pressure’, the shapes are created by applying welding wire to a metal printing plate, which ultimately serves as a stamp to emboss letters into anodized aluminum sheets. It is a process where imperfection, spontaneity, and openness to results are key, leading to a unique visual language. Stay tuned for more …
Capture Something
Letters were alienated and deformed using mirror foil. Abstract shapes and spaces were created that are reminiscent of letters. The experiments were carried out as part of a workshop entitled “Unruly Repairs” with Jian Haake.
Camille
Camille is a typeface inspired by the French sculptor Camille Claudel. She was an emancipated but penniless artist who was far ahead of her time and ultimately failed because of her circumstances. The tragedy of her fate is also reflected in her works. Always dynamic, powerfully striving, hard, firmly rooted to the ground, but equally soft, emotional, free and dramatic. These characteristics can also be found in the typeface.
An Ode to a specimen
Typographic posters using NT Voice, a neo-grotesque typeface which was created for Ntsal Design Chamber. The typeface explores the the limits of the Neo-grotesque for it to stay functional, yet retain a strong character on its own. The posters express this through different typographic experiments using the paper as form of pushing and warping limits.
Slow Dancing Through the Blackwall
The experimental typeface “Blackwall” by Tarik Schindler was created during his first semester in the typography course of Mediadesign at the IU Frankfurt and is based on photographs of objects in an old warehouse (such as cables and steel beams), from which the modules of the typeface were formed.
The background consists of letters that have been heavily distorted by effects, while a fragmented song lyric (Slow Dancing i. t. D.) and all the glyphs of the typeface can be seen in the foreground.
Folha de Sala
Commissioned by Galeria Ocupa! and Sput&nik the Window, for the exhibit “Folha de Sala” by Rui Mota (meaning exhibition “Room Sheet”). The exhibition is made up of what the artist called “extroverted objects”. That is objects that can expand the concept of Sculpture beyond their limits, by using their surroundings as plastic material. The brief was: to create an image that, like the exhibition, could expand the concept of itself beyond its limits.
The communication created tried to match the in
Manshaa/Genesis
“A Various Artists Album that traverses a wild tapestry of genres and emerging sounds from the Middle East & North Africa. ‘Manshaa’ (which translates to ‘Genesis’ or ‘Origin’) features 13 singles from an array of cutting-edge established and up-and-coming artists from 10 countries” Giving a musical spin to traditional Arabic ornamentation using typography, inspired by the region’s visual language. Each track was visually expressed through custom letterings in its corresponding language. While t
KIESELECH
This typeface goes back to the analog world. While much is generated by AI and similar aesthetics may be created there, nature remains an endless resource of inspiration. The stones I collected for this experiment were found in the river right in front of my house. On my journey to becoming a designer, it served not only as a place for relaxation and swimming but also as a source of ideas for my work.
Fauna
Fauna was created by modularly assembling elements from the art nouveau fonts of the Klingspor Archives, as well as typographic elements created with the help of an AI. Originally, one element of each letter wrapped around a circle which is still evidenced by the round dynamic swirls that create a circular recess. Although the glyphs of Fauna are so varied, the recurring shapes, curves, and peaks create a uniform typeface of letters dancing together.
NoiseRecords Stamp Poster
The poster communicates an overview of all the Arab countries, celebrating their typographical heritage using stamps crafted for each; with the brand’s slogan ‘breaking boundaries’ lettered in bilingual and reflected, as an ode to Arabic typography and its usage in aesthetically occupying a space
Transmissions
To create a corporate design, Káschem Büro played with different visualizations and approaches for lettering on the theme of water, radio and art in order to approach the topic.
Ntsal Five Year Poster
Celebrating Ntsal’s journey over the five years since its establishment, this poster commemorates the key marks of those ca.2000 days. Documenting the different offices, international expansions, team growth, and even pet visits to the office, all these come together and tell the story of Ntsal.
REF 23 Design Talks
Visual identity for the first graphic design event “Design Talk” during the Romaeuropa Festival 2024. The graphic project in this case exists as a spin-off of the identity of the entire festival based on the alteration of the artists’ images, here replaced for this occasion by typography which becomes the real protagonist.
Schriftmutationen
Modifications of the “ProFont” by Andrew Welch, used as design accompaniment of the artworks of Boris Petrovsky. As the art installations deal with the overarching concept of communication and machine, the type mutants also attempt to control perception, at best reflecting the respective aesthetics of the installations. The brute geometric basic approach of the typeface allows a sometimes almost painful distortion of the characters in the sense of the artworks to be described.
An unnamed yet working font in progress
This font is based on one of the many engraved stone inscriptions found in Palermo, Italy. Based on traditional, even outdated techniques, the aim was to create a contemporary font rather than a revival. Through constant digital experimentation and modification, the typeface evolves with varying and often unexpected forms. Kept intentionally raw and imperfect, it has not been publicly released but is used within the studio for both client and personal projects.