Poster designed for Neubad Luzern for Luzius Schuler’s and Samuel Leipold’s double concert.

Christian Dietz work circles around a mixture of digital design tools and analog printing techniques, what he likes to call NEOANALOGUE. Modern typography is rooted in analogue letterpress printing. Experimental type design, in particular, opens an historically based playground for today’s hyper-digital design tools in harmony with analog printing processes. To do this, Chris designed a typeface based on circles only, sawed 20 ct coins, glued them on a wooden block and printed them by hand. The technique of analogue printing was involved in the entire design process not only as a background idea, but also as a style-defining factor for an experimental design approach.

An interactive typographic exploration of the text ‘myu’ written by Thomas Sharp. myu is a hypnogogic surrealist recording of the thoughts of the universe over one second in 1913. It’s about prophecy and shamans and revelation. myu was seen and transcribed by Thomas Sharp in a series of Active Imagination sessions between January and June 2020. Visualised by MATA at tobebeginningless.com

LOVE YOU is a graphic design student’s exploration of computer processing. The experimental type of LOVE YOU evokes wondrous and expressive forms via the open-source program Processing. LOVE YOU aims to break the rigid and clean design rules of both graphic design and computer coding.

Typographic manipulation is central in graphic design process. Letters as printed can be in motion anyway.

The Typo „Kyra“ is characterized by its rounded details, which give it a soft, organic feeling. Every curve and bend has been carefully crafted to evoke a sense of fluidity, playfulness and grace. Kyra is in general made for headings, adding a touch of elegance and playfulness to any project it graces.

Do22i we Abbaza are their names, if you don’t know what that means, then thats a good thing. Ur welc.

But doesn’t stop you from saying Hi. or Hello.

it’s an inside joke.

Trying out new techniques to help me find my personal style.

Collecting the wasted/used paper left out at the printing studio and recombining them in a random manner, the idea of ‘INTENTIONAL MISTAKE’ creates a system of making mistakes ‘on purpose’, as a way to encourage the unexpected, to find a balance between something already existing and something unexpected. In the end, the system of rules that can be used or created to invite accidents into a positive role, and the outcome produced by the system becomes something beyond oneself. As a result, it encourages the unpredictable. The work was inspired by the approach of the Dadaist poem, thinking of these invented systems as something which encourages a kind of ‘self-less’ creative process.

While Bloom began as a study of floral forms and floral typography, the fragmented and clustered nature of the floral design led to the idea of impermanence. Bloom visualizes the nature of flowers and of all living things: To bloom spectacularly for a moment, before time carries the fragments and petals away.

This type is a study on nature and algae forms. Formed entirely from bezier curves, the lines stack upon each other against a dark background to invoke a glowing effect reminiscent of bioluminescence, as if one is looking at bacteria bloom at the bottom of the ocean floor. The name of the work itself is derived from cyanobacteria, blue-green “algae” that has become synonymous with life.

I created Lily for a project in my Coding for Graphic Design course with the objective of combining type and a flower we previously designed. I used Processing, an open-source programming language created by Ben Fry and Casey Reas, to generate the flowers. I created the layout in Adobe Illustrator and imbedded it in Processing to combine flowers and type.

“Roses ‘R’ Red” is composed using the processing computer language. Utilizing the Geomerative library, generative floral designs have overlayed this letter R. The type is meant to demonstrate growth and relationships in life. Each flower is unique at different stages, but they are all connected through the stroke of the R.

“Growth” is a series of floral type expressions created with Processing. the code utilized floral illustrations paired with type to form the letters. The designs thematically reflect the words, which center around celebrating beauty and new beginnings, just like flowers.

This series of paintings is created using a combination of spray and mounting foam, resulting in a unique and uncontrollable texture. To apply the foam to the canvas, the artist created a specialized tool. The foam produces an organic 3D surface with protruding, expansive forms. The paintings are then enhanced with fluorescent or metallic sprays that add depth and transform the foam into a new material altogether. The resulting effect is a fascinating interplay of different textures and colors, creating an innovative and captivating visual experience.

Bodies can do a lot, but not just look good.

While working on a fun personal project which focussed on experimenting with type, I found some hex/allen keys and arranged them into a few letters. Using this one shape of tool forced limitations on me and I really enjoyed the problem solving process of trying to create letters from these with as few keys as possible. I loved the unusual look of these letters and decided to build them as vectors before developing it into a fully functioning font.

Experimental typography is a unique approach that merges two distinctive font types, namely serif and sans-serif, along with a combination of digital, analog, and texture-based techniques. The improvisational nature of this mode of visual inquiry allows for a creative exploration of typography, resulting in unexpected outcomes. In particular, the use of interactive paper textures to export the object of the typeface adds a layer of complexity and depth to the final product. Overall, experimental typography represents a bold and innovative form of design that pushes the boundaries of traditional typography conventions.

The design idea plays on a visual inversion. Books are notoriously made up of words and letters: the graphic design overturns this idea and the letters become books.

LOUFR isolated point
Record Sleeve
A Close Close2 5 LOUFR isolated point Record Sleeve

The album isolated point by LOURF is drawing on elements from club music, IDM, and noise as well as vocal manipulation. Behind LOUFR is Polish composer Piotr Bednarczyk who lives and works as a musician and physician in Warsaw. His sound collages focus mainly on instrumental electroacoustic and electronic music. We designed a biometric LOUFR lettering. The materiality of our keyvisual should not be assignable — somewhere between synthetic material and natural product. A kind of biological growth of a non-biological species.

Highly experimental and intuïtive works with collage and handmade elements

1. Rough Posca marker lettering
2. Artwork collage style
3. Handlettered quote with Posca and heavily post-processed digitally
4. Rough Posca handlettering, post-processed with bevel/emboss effects in Photoshop
5. Collage style letter M, remixed a lot of old collage parts
6. Misprint due to way too much ink on this linocut piece

SLAM is an art performance held at the Neubad Club in Lucerne, Switzerland. Language artists celebrate an evening of poetic capers ranging from sound art to literature.