Time Flows is a handmade book that documents my inner thoughts and struggles for my first four years of design practice after graduation, for my parents, for their long-suffering.
It is not necessary about going to a certain place or arriving at a certain goal in life, the most important thing is about what you learn along the way in that journey, destination may not be important. Life will make its turns and you just have to learn to go with the flow and learn how to be ready for that, stay curious and the life force inside of you.
Modular Letterforms
In an increasingly virtual world, we are asking ourselves what the role of the designer nowadays is. Do we leave the creative process to technology, programs, AI or automated processes or do we use these techniques to implement our design ideas? At what point in the design process do we use technology, for how long, and when do we use analog design methods to influence our creative process? Particularly in Typography, a sense of subtlety and details is important. Can we develop this sensitivity on the screen or are analog ways the better guide for this? The truth probably lies in the middle. The project is all about the playful and creative moment in working with Typography.
GRAPHIC heART
LeOsler typeface
LeOsler is a playful and spirited handwritten font with an illustrative imprint. It has Light and Regular weights and a wide range of graphic styles: Sharp, Rough, Stamp, Inline, Border, Shadow, and the unusual Sprinkles texture, having 12 font styles in total.
Most styles have rugged and textured designs, whereas the ‘Sharp’ fonts have the cleanest outlines of this type family, with perfectly smooth contours and polished intersection of strokes.
Escalope typeface
Escalope is a hand-drawn font with a quirky and unique personality: low midline, unicase, all-caps, matching icons, textures, and the playful Stylistic Sets.
The poster is set in ‘Escalope Crust One’. This style is relatively clean but rugged, with an ink stamp outcome.
Cumbre typeface
Cumbre is a slanted display type with unorthodox anatomy, a dynamic rhythmic structure, movement expression, and intense visual language. An eccentric rebel with ribbon-like moves, a balanced extrovert that makes meticulous use of ink traps.
Cumbre Stamp has textures that are irregular as if thick ink had spread out unevenly when printed. It has heavy swelling at intersections. This jagged style is an advocate for the overall intense feel of the typeface. Cumbre’s bumpy outlines were carefully crafted to ensure high-quality contours and allow large point sizes.
Cumbre typeface
Cumbre is a slanted display type with unorthodox anatomy, a dynamic rhythmic structure, movement expression, and intense visual language. An eccentric rebel with ribbon-like moves, a balanced extrovert that makes meticulous use of ink traps.
Cumbre Sharp has perfectly smooth outlines and sharp-angled terminals, with a blend of curves and pointy straight lines that make this type distinctive in its construction.
PoiL Ueda Poster
PoiL Ueda is a musical creation between the French rock band PoiL + Benoit Lecomte and the Japanese traditional satsuma biwa player Junko Ueda. In the design of the poster for their concert at Neubad Lucerne, we mix mythical symbolism with handmade typography that defies cultural circles and definitions.
Escalope typeface
Escalope is a hand-drawn font with a quirky and unique personality: low midline, unicase, all-caps, matching icons, textures, and the playful Stylistic Sets.
This poster is set in ‘Escalope Crust Two’, which is harsh in texture, with large coarse grains in its jagged outlines.
Escalope includes a set of 150 icons consistent with the four styles of the typeface. They share weight, texture, and font characteristics for a perfect match.
Stripe Type
A connected, glowing type that can be programmed with an Arduino and greets visitors to an exhibition with a “hey”.
Palinopsia
Palinopsia (Greek [pælɪˈnəʊpɪə]: palin = again and opsia = seeing) is a type experiment that challenges commonly held notions of legibility.
Circular shapes animate along paths to complete the form of known glyphs, leaving visual artifacts. Since individual letters will never appear complete at any given moment the viewer is required to focus in a way that is foreign to the usual act of reading.
A new kind of reading however can be achieved with a rapid succession of individual letters where the viewer remembers the previous letters to form the intended word. The process is similar to a child learning to read, wherein they read each letter rather than scan words for memorized visual cues.
Neubad Klubnacht: Sarah Wild, Guy De Prà, ENVSRL
Sarah Wild promises a dynamic club night with energetic music between acid basslines and piano elements. Such an event needs a poster with wild and playful typography – obviously!
transmute
An excerpt from a short video series exploring of the visual language between video game dungeon maps and 8-bit lettering. I use the drawing of a (mostly) single line to transmute the conceptual space between lettering and maps into a single digital object by equating the process of drawing a line with the through navigation of all this dungeon map’s nooks and crannies. In the case of this drawing, I immerse myself in the merged role of micro-cartographer and 8-bit letter to explore these visual cues as a way to hopefully provide a moment of respite, escapism, or ‘visual ASMR’ to the weary internet traveler.
A Slug ate my Cabbage
Devastated that Slugs ate my Cabbages, I turned their work into mine. A typeface entirely formed from the natural shapes created by pests.
Oddball a
An exploration of form and material.
Tungumál Logotype
The show Tungumál by aliEn Dance company explores language and every child’s right to be heard, no matter how they communicate. To create the logo, the performers were asked to print out the letters in the show’s name on sheets of paper and dance with them while taking photos. The design process became a form of curation: instructing the dancers, sifting through the photos, selecting ones with legible yet blurry letters, and combining those letters into a logotype showcasing both the elastic nature of language and the movement of dance.
Home
Exploring the idea of ‘home’ through an experimental Arabic type. Bayt —home in Arabic— is drawn in a modern geometric style to create abstract houses upside down.
Young Ones Identity
The Young Ones identity champions “Young,” embracing the spirit and irreverence often associated with youth. While most identities rely on a single type family, our visual language—our seemingly infinite typographic palette—celebrates the diversity of our audience. The design system is a playground for experimentation and discovery, rooted in principles that encourage creative risk-taking.
Oldlego
The font was inspired by a children’s metal constructor. The first metal constructor (Meccano) was created in 1901 by Frank Hornby (1863-1936) from Liverpool (Great Britain).
The elements combine perforated shapes, layering of elements and destructiveness.
Motivational Quotes
A poster with a saying by Naval Ravikant
Strong People
A series of promo posters for the psychology course “Strong People”.
Virgo
The font was inspired by the zodiac sign virgo. Intricate, multi-layered shapes smoothly flow into one another.
B is for Black
Black is heavy and bold color. It has no light in it. It consumes all the space. But if you add opposite to black color which is white, you can create the strongest compositions that can deliver strongest messages. B is for boldness. B is for Black.
Grid based experimental type
My work in experimental typography is based on grids, and it’s all about breaking the rules of traditional typography to create innovative, futuristic and impactful letterforms. I believe that typography is an art form that has the power to communicate a message and evoke emotions from its own shapes.