“æra&FFFC” is a collection by the Bern-based art and culture project æra, which was presented in 2022 at the Underground Fashion Show at the squatted Tripity in Bern. One day before the kickoff of the World Cup in Qatar, it addressed the exploitation of people and nature in sports and fashion. The looks were created collectively by upcycling surplus sportswear from the local neighborhood club FC Breitenrain and were embroidered, printed, and re-sewn.

A custom typeface inspired by the movement and physicality of horse jumping, PJL Display and Sans are a dual-type system with DNA uniquely derived from the sport, such as dynamic italic angles, crafted stencil cuts, and hoof-inspired terminals.

Designed for the new Premier Jumping League (the PJL) in collaboration with NOT Wieden+Kennedy, it was designed to cover a wide range of uses, from on-screen leaderboard graphics to large outdoor billboards and way finding.

The Court is an identity born from how basketball truly works: through the precise movements and tactical formations of its players. To capture these plays, I designed a bespoke typeface translating athletic motion into text. It is a cool, dynamic brand built entirely from these human pathways, strong imagery, and secondary type. It playfully reveals how physical motion can generate experimental typography, creating a totally unseen visual code for basketball culture.

The poster captures the sensory essence of freediving through minimalist geometric tension. Distorted horizontal lines visualize ocean pressure and surface ripples bending downward, guiding the eye into an abyssal plunge. Anchored by a lone diver descending on a single breath, the piece translates the silence beneath the waves into visual rhythm, reflecting an intimate dialogue between the human body and the quiet deep.

A bead-based Arabic typographic exploration of “World Champion” translating the energy of sport into letterforms. Shifting type from purely digital into material instead of approaching type as primarily digital medium.The artwork explores how Arabic letterforms can become playful and energetic while still carrying a strong sense of triumph through material, form, and rhythm while the vivid palette brings in the spirit of sport and celebration making it bold, joyful, rhythmic and full of movement

Flow Forward is a triathlon team by Ryzon, Canyon and Zwift that celebrates the age-group athlete’s journey rather than podiums. Its identity, designed by Ryzon’s design team, is built on a custom monospaced typeface of rounded squares that melt into one another. Although the font is pixel-based, it still feels organic through its wave-like forms, which mirror flow, ease, unity and motion. The project is all about playful ambitiousness, which is carried above all by its typeface.

Our research group at the Institute for Information Systems (iisys) analyzes the movements of surfers and skaters using 3D-Human-Pose-Estimation and visualizes the data. As part of a side project, we experimented with ways to represent this data using typography. We developed a custom tool that searches for letters within the data-driven skeleton sequences according to specified rules and patterns. This resulted in typographic data visualizations and a new font.

Fuoricampo is a display typeface rooted in Italian football and ultras culture. It explores the typography born inside the stadium, where lettering is made by supporters, not trained designers. Built on Italian-style forms (high contrast, high waist, thick-thin transitions), it reworks banner proportions into extreme display shapes, uses letter intersections to create a rhythm inspired by collective movement, and turns calligraphic speed into dynamism.

STEQZ, Slovakia’s National Teqball Association, turns the mechanics of a still-niche sport into type. Teqball is played with a size-five ball on a signature curved table – and the identity follows the ball’s trajectory. Type tilts, rotates and rebounds across layouts: dynamic in stills, fully unleashed in motion. That movement became a brand concept “Spin the world“, carrying the game’s energy through typo as well. A sport built around a curve gets a typographic identity that refuses to sit stil

GER BBALL / HELLAS was created for the German team competing at the basketball world championship 2026 in Corinth, Greece.
At its centre is TT Ricordi Allegria by TypeType, inspired by historical stone inscriptions. Transferred into basketball, teamwear and contemporary graphic culture, ancient forms take on a new character—connecting place, history and sport through type.
Ancient forms. Contemporary team identity. A typeface travelling from stone to court.

Allure Running Club explores the visual language of running through typography, movement and repetition. Designed by Marie Chevalier, the identity turns pace, routes, race data and collective motion into graphic matter. Custom lettering and running figures form a flexible system that moves across posters, apparel and digital formats, reflecting a community where running becomes less about performance than moving forward together.

Allure Running Club explores the visual language of running through typography, movement and repetition. Designed by Marie Chevalier, the identity turns pace, routes, race data and collective motion into graphic matter. Custom lettering and running figures form a flexible system that moves across posters, apparel and digital formats, reflecting a community where running becomes less about performance than moving forward together.

Allure Running Club explores the visual language of running through typography, movement and repetition. Designed by Marie Chevalier, the identity turns pace, routes, race data and collective motion into graphic matter. Custom lettering and running figures form a flexible system that moves across posters, apparel and digital formats, reflecting a community where running becomes less about performance than moving forward together.

Fuoricampo is a display typeface rooted in Italian football and ultras culture. It explores the typography born inside the stadium, where lettering is made by supporters, not trained designers. Built on Italian-style forms (high contrast, high waist, thick-thin transitions), it reworks banner proportions into extreme display shapes, uses letter intersections to create a rhythm inspired by collective movement, and turns calligraphic speed into dynamism.

For the visual identity and spatial communication of QUEST Club, buero x-height uses Dinamo’s Gravity Variable to translate physical qualities into graphic expression.
MOMENTUM, AGILITY, POWER + SPEED — ENJOY.
Type expands, contracts, stretches and shifts in intensity. Moving from identity into space, typography becomes part of the architecture—turning movement, energy and rhythm into a flexible visual system.

Cycling is not only about speed. It is about everything in between: headwind and slipstream, cadence and repetition, acceleration and flow.

The visual identity of Shades of Speed translates this experience into a typographic system. Using Suisse Int’l by Swiss Typefaces, repetition, scale and movement create a rhythm that echoes cycling itself.

Shades of Speed turns cadence into composition and movement into type.

During the summer semester 2024 I explored outdoor swimming pools and developed a visual identity inspired by water wings, warning labels and safety markings. The ‘Pommes und Chlor’ poster plays with the contrast between carefree summer nostalgia and the flood of rules, signs and safety regulations surrounding public pools. Printed in vibrant neon red using offset printing, the design combines playful typography with the visual language of safety instructions.

Faster, Higher, Stronger.

Faster, Higher, Stronger.

FC Petržalka Women rewrites club heritage through type. Engerau—the historic German name of Bratislava’s Petržalka borough and a long-standing club nickname—remains, but its voice changes. Blackletter meets oversized condensed grotesk, brush lettering and unapologetic pink. Letterforms stretch and flex across the identity, pushing heritage into rebellion. Pink becomes force, while type turns tradition into attitude. Built for a new generation of women footballers shaping the sport right now.

A font with 603 KMH—top speed on the world’s fastest train—Transrapid

The variable typeface Trans Rapid is designed from 2026 for the font foundry Typo Graphic Design by the type designer Manuel Viergutz.

This variable display font visualizes speed. Rapid top speeds inspired by the world record set by the maglev train.

5 Styles/Speeds (50 KMH + 100 KMH + 200 KMH + 300 KMH + 603 KMH), 489 glyhs for 73 languages + 24 OpenType features incl. decorative extras!

Seoul Marathon 2019 reimagines the visual language of a historic Korean marathon through a minimal graphic system. Moving away from familiar photographic expressions of speed and impact, the identity begins with a single line—the simplest element that can represent a running route. The line grows into roads, landmarks, and cities, forming a consistent visual language across Seoul, Gongju, and Gyeongju and uniting the three races as one running journey.

Petanca is a history-rich sport that is celebrated by many people around the world whilst being an inclusive, easy-to-learn sport that knows no gender, age, or social status. However, with a declining player base, its future is at risk. Many young people view it as a pastime for older generations and a relic of the past. Heroes of Petanca aims to change this perception by bringing a fresh and exciting new take on the sport to restore its former appeal and ensure its preservation.

In billiards, the eight ball is the one that ends the game. It cannot be rushed and it cannot be skipped: it waits until every easier shot is gone, then asks for a clean angle under full pressure. The poster reads that last ball as an image of any practice built on precision — the risk of the decisive move, the composure it demands, and the pull to rack them up and play again. Design works the same way: a break, a run of collisions, and one final pocket.