From Toys to Type

“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.

The Code of Poetry Poster

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.

Symbol As Flow

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.

REDCAT Poster

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.

Casual Friday

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.

Family Tree font

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

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

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.

playing cards

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.

Bug Like An Angel

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.

Type Tools

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.

Tüposz

The project visually presents the generations through their handwriting. The experiment contains writings of sixty people aged between six and ninety-two.

The creation of the letters and digits of the English alphabet are a group activity. Each character was made with the signature of ten people. The letters are turned into sentences and texts as the individuals assemble into generations and society.

Consularies: Dr. Erdei Krisztina, Drs. Kolcsár Zsolt

Dopo la scaduta

The observation of trabucchi, ancient fishing machines typical of a part of the Italian coast, led to rediscovering a chaos of languages generated by elements that came from the past. From the analysis of the traces they left over time, a new system of communication was generated. How would a trabucco communicate today? According to tradition, an opportunity for dialogue with the community was held on Sunday lunchtime, when fishermen and their families gathered on board by setting large tables.

TIME

The poster was created in the process of learning, improvisation. I created the letters out of duct tape, and put together a word that came to mind. I decided to rhyme the other words on the poster, to add hand drawn typography. I wanted to create something that was both pessimistic and benevolent, as I was feeling at the time

36DOT

As lover of vintage typography, complex and intricate art has always appealed to Anton. But in the era of shortened attention spans, there is less and less interest in creating time consuming graphics. This thinking gave him the idea of exploring intricate typography in a new way.

In a bid to preserve his love to vintage typography, in the last year’s #36daysoftype10 project Anton was aiming to explore a symbiosis of old and new.

Othello

I created the poster as part of my creative learning process, it was originally intended to be a theater poster, so I created experimental letters using stencils, shapes of a pocket folding knife my grandfather gave me as a child, cut pieces of wet wipe packaging, yes, even that. I wanted to portray Othello’s jealous, passionate and fiery nature

The Universe

This poster is the outcome of a design exercise where I’ve been investigating type as a visual element. It’s part of a broader series that delves into the theme of nature.Combination of experimental typography and typeart create a whole image where all elements are constructed with type. In the poster ‘The Universe,’ I recreated the flower using type art. In this poster, I use a single quote for all elements, serving as both the title and the type art.

Flowers

This poster is the outcome of a design exercise where I’ve been investigating type as a visual element. It’s part of a broader series that delves into the theme of nature.Combination of experimental typography and typeart create a whole image where all elements are constructed with type. In the poster ‘Flowers,’ I used transformed graphic elements to create the letters. In this case, the individual elements combine to form the typography.

How is the weather inside you?

This poster is the outcome of a design exercise where I’ve been investigating type as a visual element. It’s part of a broader series that delves into the theme of nature.Combination of experimental typography and typeart create a whole image where all elements are constructed with type.

In the poster “How is the weather inside you?”, I recreated typical weather forecast graphic elements using typography, where each letter symbolizes a different weather condition.