Asterisk is a variable mono typeface inspired by the shape of the glyph called the ✳ eight spoked asterisk. The letters are mapped from a 3×3 grid of the glyph.

Prick was made from the shape of a dental floss stick that pricked my finger, it was also inspired by a real life prick I met.

This poster was created to motivate people to celebrate annual human space flight day which takes place on the 12th of April each year.

A movie poster of the movie “Messages of the sea” or “”رسائل البحر in Arabic. I made it using Lino cutting technique. Whenever I can I like my work to be analogue, in my opinion it gives it texture and personality. The movie is full of symbolism, so I tried to make my poster as poetic as the mobie.

A typographical, bilingual movie poster of the Movie “ET” with custom made typefaces that add a futuristic spin on the movie.

Elmira is a family inspired by the process that type goes through when being woven in industrial power looms. Focusing on textile labels, it is a 100% sans serif family, that features a grotesque for small typesetting and display layered fonts, that can be paired, juxtaposed and layered; giving a lot of choices for experimentation to the end-user.
The letters recreate the woven textile process found in clothing tags. Vertical and horizontal, front and back are the names found in the “looms” directly related to the direction and position of threads in the woven pattern. The font explores the notion of creating a type system that re-created the limitations and restrictions of weaving letters.

This is one of the first sketches for a typeface with a variable width I’m currently working on. “Flexibility” should appear as a liquid typeface. In order to obtain this characteristic, each letter is painted by hand in one flow. Just like spilled liquids or raindrops landings on surfaces and leaving wet trails.

These are all students work with experimenting and experiencing type, form and colour. Our students coming from all asian countries and bring in their personal cultural background (e.g. from Vietnam, Malaysia, Southkorea, China..).

I am Ksenia Endovitskaya, a first-year student of the graphic design department. I want to show you my almo font. It is made on the basis of a flat pen and imagination. I think my font is very elegant and brutal.

House numbers form a figurative object on every building. They are primarily used for orientation and to identify the district. Once installed, they are rarely exchanged or replaced. This is also the decisive argument for choosing recycled plastic. However, house numbers are also a means of personal expression, which is why the numbers were deliberately designed to be very “exotic” during the process. The typographic approach as well as the personal interest lies in the modular interplay of basic shapes such as the circle, the triangle and the rectangle. Due to the manufacturing process, no two numerals are alike, which gives the numerals an additional high design value.

OM Litho is a design experiment on variable font, inspired by crazy type composition from old specimen. The starting point was a light and bold style, both in condensed and expand versions. Then to each style a contrasted version was added and after that also a medium form, common resultant of all styles. To each style I also inserted round, slanted and backslanted form (both 45 degrees). Main goal was to keep maximum character contrast between light and bold and still have one medium version.
The design process was about fun and learning variable fonts at the same time.

Ciudadela is a font inspired in urban fences. It’s part of a much larger design and research project, called, letra capital: type walks in Buenos Aires. As result of the inspiration found during these walks, Ciudadela takes after all the laborious blacksmith work we found.
It was built with one style and no lowercase, but it explores something else. It looks into how ornated and connected shapes can be in writing before they become a texture. Each word written in these heavily ornated version of Ciudadela explores unique letter connections, shapes, stroke, openings and endings, playing with this idea of a typeface turning into custom writing.

basic_form is a typographic experiment, exploring the possibilities of grid-based letter systems. The visual form is taking inspiration from the early pixel fonts, but my focus was to look for different solutions and more abstract objects as an outcome, while working on two weights in both Latin and Cyrillic alphabets. First presentations of the project were connected to this year’s 36 days of type and 33 letters for Ukraine action, but it is still a unit-based-system in construction, undergoing further development.

Using artificial intelligence as a starting point to inform typographic experimentation. How does AI interpret lettering? Where does legibility cease and abstraction begin? How far will a virtual dream push and distort letterforms into a language of its own?