Propaganda, media censorship, and literature played the central role in the Russia-Ukraine war. As stances hardened, cultural bonds faded. Deconstructing and reconstructing Cyrillic letters highlight the corruption of truth, identity, and culture. Trauma is nonverbally conveyed through over 1,000 new characters. “Zensura” is a publication and system that portrays the loss of communication and truth through image distortion and an homage to USSR propaganda posters.

A visual interpretation of Soliflore written by Iris Colomb, published in Colliding Lines’ anthology HOME which invited various designers and typographers to reinterpret the works of featured poets. The individual letters were generated using a script written in Basil.js to randomise the point size and angle within Adobe InDesign, while the additional details were crafted manually.

This typographic artwork, created with LEGO and printed by hand, features letter designs inspired by organic shapes. The project involved designing letters using LEGO Dots pieces without the aid of technology, manually arranging different configurations off-screen. This blend of rigid plastic pieces and softer final forms adds a meaningful dimension to the word “mother.”

Visual interpretations of I Don’t Feel Capable by Amber Renee and Exit Sign by Gem Blackburd published in Chronic Poetics, an anthology by Point Positive Publishing and Colliding Lines. Both designs called for creative coding to build the initial design structure. The first utilised Basil.js to generate a randomised cluster of shapes within Adobe InDesign, while the second employed a JavaScript code by Christian Marques to produce a glyph rendering. The actual words were then manually placed.

Iryna Baranova’s work for Ester Digital features blog article covers with a dadaist, experimental approach. The creative method, designed to produce covers efficiently within just one hour due to heavy workloads, can be adopted by others if needed. It blends random photos, the studio’s brand font, analog-inspired techniques like dithering and pixelation, and a muted palette extending the brand colors. This approach balances playful visuals with serious article topics, adding irony to the series.

A poster design for the Tea Break Collective x Yuliya Ra party and exhibition that took place in July at an arcade bar in Peckham, London.

The idea for the poster and experimental typography was inspired by the 3D Tetris that I’ve used to play as a kid.

The Grill House Stencil font is a project dedicated to exploring alternative digital vector tools. While working, the designer tries to follow the logic of the tool and explore new typographic styles. Kind of a typographic rodeo. To tame the tool and bring out its wild nature.

The Grill House Stencil font includes two types of capital letters and collection of ligatures. Support Latin Basic, Western European, Central, and South Eastern European languages.

The graphic covers the process from the design of the font “angular” to the experimental typographic processing. It depicts the journey of life and its confusing and surprising paths.

Like appearantly a lot of people this year, i had the idea to create an iron-on bead font, but on a hexagonal grid with a backslant. For the poster, i created special block glyphs so that i could type the whole poster. While experimenting with assigning different bead sizes in cavalry, i accidentally stumbled upon this gradient effect, because the noise took the circle index as input instead of its coordinates. Since it looked quite nice, i left it that way.

“From Toys To Type” was an interactive installation that invited you to rediscover playful design. At the three stations of the triangular table, visitors could stamp glyphs based on predefined rules using toys such as Lego Duplo, wooden blocks or CUBORO cubes. The three different toys each created unique visual aesthetics wich were shown off on the poster for the installation.

To promote the artist talk “The Code of Poetry”, the poster features the custom font from my on-going type making project, in which I create letter faces look like optical code and are scannable by AR lens. The poster gives the audience an idea of the subject matter: seeking poetic moment through coding and computation logics, with both analog and digital mediums.

To celebrate the launching of the website “symbolasflow.online”, the poster was created based on the idea: how to translate webpage into printed matter? With the custom title type that was inspired by shapes of hyperlinks, alt-text, and many other visual vocabularies of web architecture, the poster became a flattened shape of the “web homepage”, showcasing 14 rows of visual projects, created by 14 student contributors in the actual website.

The poster was designed for a performance talk at REDCAT. The title is set in bespoke Chicano lettering with undeleted guides. This visual setting leads to and suggests a period in the 1960s when the life of the local Chicano community was confined and influenced by the highway construction in East Los Angeles.

I’ve created a variable dynamic experimental typography that adapts to any forms. I’ve used this typography to create a flag for a music event in London.

This poster was created for the final projects exhibition of Master’s students from the type design and self-publishing studios at Aalto University’s Media and Arts program. The type design studio held a modular type design workshop where students had to create a Latin alphabet with numbers from various shapes by hand in 3 hours. Nikita and Diana compiled these letters into a typeface and used as the main element of a poster. Every glyph is unique, showcasing the group’s diversity.

The idea of this font was to have a very strong square module. Posters were created as a preview to test the typeface. Also it contain somne 3D experiments with it.

This lettering was created by Alice for the event at the Lisbon Botanical Garden. The idea was to translate organic lettering, related to the theme, into a poster.

This is an experimental typeface that Alice has been working on. It’s still a work in progress, but Alice has already created promo posters for it. The idea is quite simple, to have a typeface that contains only a simple star element.

FamilyTree Letter Type is a research project designed to explore alternative digital vector tools. I try to follow the logic of the tool and explore new styles of writing. Like a typographic rodeo. To tame the tool and bring out its wild nature.
FamilyTree font includes uppercase and lowercase letters, massive collection of ligatures, initials, and endings. Support Latin Basic, Western European, Central, and South Eastern European languages.

Aurinko is a display typeface inspired by a sunflower meadow.
The free and curved shapes are intended to capture a positive, natural and free mood that is reminiscent of sunflowers.
The font styles Saat (seed) and Wiese (meadow) make Aurinko a variable font.

Music/Form is an ongoing self-initiated project called to explore relationship between musical pieces and letterforms. Discovering different aspects of music (pitch, duration, texture, character etc) and expressing them via letterforms by experimenting is a key goal of the project.

During her work time at the youth club, Cora spent a lot of time with cards and board games. During one of many miserable attempts to introduce her favorite game Bonanza to the children, she played around with the cards and noticed the graphic, random top view of the cards. This led to her first typographic experiments with this randomization and her fascination for coincidence in design.

This is a poster and lyric video for a song called Bug Like An Angel written and sung by Mitski. The song is about addiction and bad habits. The typeface used for this project is the sophisticated Times New Roman. My goal of running the type through water is to show lack of control of something stable. I included handwritten words, for it is a form of design susceptible to error and change. I used misprints for the paper and texture to come alive and fully speak to the meaning of the song.

Exploring the influence of analog tools on design, the project “Type Tools” examined everyday objects for their design potential. What shapes and structures can these tools create, and how can they be used in typography?
During their first semester with Sandra Doeller at HS Mainz, students created 19 typefaces (A-Z, 0-9) through analog experiments, which were later used in poster designs. The project encourages discovering new design possibilities by breaking with conventional methods.