Rundgang 2025 ‘Wrinting Lines’
Exhibition design at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig
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Fast variable typeface
The Type Design classroom project at HGB Rundgang 2025 in Leipzig, it was planned to make this particular printing method the focus of the exhibition. The machine used to cut the vinyl was modified so that different markers could be used for the design.During the four days the exhibition was open to the public, both the posters and the publication for sale continued to be printed on site. On the long sheets that covered the walls, all the proofs of the characters drawn during the semester were printed by the same method.
In the not too distant future, machines could take over humanity, replacing humans to the point of extinction. But due to a bug in the system, one of these machines deviates from its original purpose: instead of contributing to the domination of its species, it wanders around the now deserted cities leaving traces of its passage on the walls with a marker, like a lone writer in a world without an audience.What would be the calligraphic style of this rebel robot? His tag would be fast, but at the same time precise and geometric, a balance between spontaneous expression and mechanical rigour. This idea - and the resulting typeface - was inspired by an anonymous letter, drawn on one of the walls of the HGB in Leipzig.
From that spontaneous sign, a typographic exploration was born that connects the world of urban tagging with the hypothesis of an automated, machine-drawn script.
Fast variable typeface
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