Initially drawn as part of a book design commission for the artist Signe Johannessen. Her work speculates in hybrid bodies, historical paraphrases and the potentials of the posthumous. In some of her recent installation based works, she uses, among other things, animal bones and hides as material. With this in mind, the typeface takes on a bone-like texture with the underlying skeleton echoing Vivaldi and Chancery. The choice in historical models is grounded in the typographic clichés around life and mortality (weddings, funerals, etc.), while also aiming at subverting a genre often associated with stereotypical notions of femininity.
Typographic clichés
Initially drawn as part of a book design commission for the artist Signe Johannessen. Her work speculates in hybrid bodies, historical paraphrases and the potentials of the posthumous. In some of her recent installation based works, she uses, among other things, animal bones and hides as material. With this in mind, the typeface takes on a bone-like texture with the underlying skeleton echoing Vivaldi and Chancery. The choice in historical models is grounded in the typographic clichés around life and mortality (weddings, funerals, etc.), while also aiming at subverting a genre often associated with stereotypical notions of femininity.
Digit
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In the typeface Reverso I’m really leaning into this problem that Carter describes. Here I’m rounding as much as possible the inside corners. The hairline and boxy look of the supporting skeleton combined with the weight in all the wrong places, I think, creates an interesting texture. I also worked a lot on making the uppercase interlocking. I liked the way the letters were able to kind of lean on each other for support.
High Strangeness
High Strangeness Caresses Contents Pages
Reverso
7 January 1970. It’s warm and bright, and there is a lively and festive atmosphere in the “House of Rest” where the veterans of the “Great Years” of the world revolution spend their days.
REVERSO
Red grandmother fell silent. Life had forged ahead. The “great years” were now only history. The younger generation could not respond as they had done to the stories of the worldwide barricades and “the last fight.” The social question was settled. The ideas of communism had justified themselves. Mankind was free from the slavery of backbreaking work for others, from material dependence and from the struggle for daily bread. New and larger problems confronted humanity, challenging the search and dauntless sprit of men and women. In comparison with these horizons, the previous struggle against social forces seemed to the young people of 1970 and easy question.
Old School
OLD SCHOOL
OLD SCHOOL