Letterform Periodical
“In the modern book, the standardization of typography divorces much of the image from the letterform... But at what cost?”
This was the leading question for my ISTD brief. It led me to design the Letterform Periodical, a publication that contrasts handwritten forms with modern typography in order to highlight what is visually lost when letters become uniform.
I was inspired by letterforms within biblical manuscripts, as well as another design periodical - Die Flache. Research materials gathered during the design process as well as my own notes form the imagery and body copy of the periodical, giving it an authentically human quality which would have been lost if it was artificially sourced.
The final piece was designed in the style of modern design magazines, to create a deliberate tension between modern editorial form and the organic nature of handwritten letterforms, which were created using a self-made made writing tool called the “Quellstift”.
Letterform Periodical
“In the modern book, the standardization of typography divorces much of the image from the letterform... But at what cost?”
This was the leading question for my ISTD brief. It led me to design the Letterform Periodical, a publication that contrasts handwritten forms with modern typography in order to highlight what is visually lost when letters become uniform.
I was inspired by letterforms within biblical manuscripts, as well as another design periodical - Die Flache. Research materials gathered during the design process as well as my own notes form the imagery and body copy of the periodical, giving it an authentically human quality which would have been lost if it was artificially sourced.
The final piece was designed in the style of modern design magazines, to create a deliberate tension between modern editorial form and the org-anic nature of handwritten letterforms, which were created using a self-made made writing tool called the “Quellstift”.