Action Type

I created the ActionType project as part of my diploma thesis at UMPRUM in 2020. It is the result of my long-term interest in typography and the study of animation in the Studio of Film and TV Graphics. This resulted in a set of hand-animated letters, inscriptions and alphabets intended for use in a video presented on the actiontype.xyz website.

Manually processed typography has a special charm and achieves unrepeatable results compared to digital animations. I see this creation as the opposite of the flow of sterile motion design, which is full of eye-popping effects.

DEAR DIARY (I want peace)

DEAR DIARY is a series of more than 150 drawings based on the experience of having a physical space to write emotions, wants, fears, ordinary stuff, trauma or even just to express love … Like a diary itself. This body of works express more than anything the urge of the artist to express his own feelings and emotions in an attempt to connect to the public around him. This takes a bit part of a constant movement of evolution between a graphic language and drawing with the use of the word.

Gaby Play

The font with strong reverse contrast supports three languages: English, German and Ukrainian. Has a friendly, positive character. Intended for posters, advertising, book publication and various events. This font allows you to perform experimental searches in typography. It will certainly cheer you up! Created in 2023 in Munich.

typo scratch

Typographic installation inspired by different meanings of the word scratch. Each of the seven large works arranged in the gallery space graphically and typographically interprets a different letter of the word. The rhythmic, analogue structures allude to musical sources. The form and spatial context are based on a more literal sense of the word—intervening in the found space, they touch on the notion of fractures in space. The different layers of words, alluding to X-ray forms, permeate the room and intermingle, creating new formal contexts, giving the impression of scraping out space, make this a story about the loss and lack we experience in life, which affect our perception of reality.

Cloud 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.

Shared Drawn Reshared

“Shared Drawn Reshared” is a catalog of object graphics, transforming everyday things into typographic resources through an iterative approach.

The work is based on objects from encounters with other designers. I began exploring the objects using pencil drawings and later finalized them as B/W sketches. During this process, the sketches were combined to create intersections in meaning and style, leading to new perspectives in communication design.

The book features 63 sketches and 52 vector graphics, which are also accessible at https://shared-drawn-reshared.com. The catalog is shared with everyone who contributed an object. In return, the graphics can be remixed in their own work.

Soraiz

Soraiz—née Sore Eyes—is a parametric typeface, the direct output of a complex Python script that generates a multi-axis color font straight out of DrawBot. Its visual grammar is self-referential, reflecting the qualities of type on screen. Its form follows the means of displaying it–the technology of digital type–akin to a digital-on-digital skeuomorphism. The underlying skeleton is itself a type-in-progress by Connor that references Handel Gothic from 1965. Taken as a whole, Soraiz is an impression of a retro-future that is some years away, but won’t come to pass, and has only been made possible because of the technology of today.

SG Sync

SG Sync is a sci-fi display font with contextual alter-
native glyphs. The font was designed by combining a limited amount of different components in various ways. The project was initiated at the saturday type fever event at HfG Karlsruhe in 2019. Meanwhile, the project was developed into a full typeface, including european language support, numbers and punctuation.

New Shekels

This is a visual diary of a short trip to Israel. Experiencing what it feels like to be in a completely foreign linguistic environment, where you cannot read a single character, can be liberating but also suffocating. It’s a free space where characters can be observed purely for their aesthetics, freeing you from the constraints of legibility and linguistic conventions.

Vibrating bird and handwritten letter

I participated in the 16th exhibition of the Korean Typography Society, “The Jindong Bird and the Handwritten Letter.”

The theme was “I took a food from an envelope and gave it to the vibrating bird that just poked at me,” in the new work of science fiction writer Kim Cho-yeop.

In order to express the overall theme, direct images of ‘vibrating bird’ and ‘handwritten letter’ were expressed, and the shape and characteristics of ‘food’ were applied to the letters. I wanted to express the phenomenon of birds breaking irregularly when they peck at their prey to convey the strange and interesting impression felt in the subject.🤪

AI Typography experiment

Experimentation with new artificial intelligence tools led Edoardo to generate possible typographic visualizations reflecting his design thinking. The goal of the experimentation is to demonstrate that artificial intelligence can be a possibility for designers by placing design thinking as the central element and not the high software skills required to generate the visuals, thus allowing the designer to spend more time researching the desired output and less time on the software.

AI Wiphala Alphabets

With the help of Stable Diffusion, 36 alphabets with different textures and themes were obtained from the Wiphala color font, which is part of the research project “Visual Chronicles of Abya Yala” by designer Vanessa Zúñiga Tinizaray. This exercise was enriching because it allowed us to learn how to write prompts that meet our requirements, explore the topic of typography using artificial intelligence, and demonstrate its potential to improve results while preserving the essence of the typography used as a starting point.

Traces of Type

Do letters leave memories behind? Once a letter is read or disappears from the screen, is there any trace left?
Traces of type is a visual exploration of the interplay between typography, memory, and the passage of time. Like ghosts that haunt abandoned spaces, the letters are faint echoes of a past that is no longer present, yet still resonates with meaning and emotion.
In this project I’ve used ink, paper and Adobe Photoshop to create translucent layers, blurred edges, and faded colours. I create a sense of ambiguity inviting viewers to engage with the ghostly remnants of typography, and to reflect on their on the ways in which they shape our perceptions and memories.