FORMGEBUNG zine
with Laura Rossi García and Mike Scaringe
In her lecture, Your Brain on Typography, at the April 2015 graphic design residency at Vermont College of Fine Arts, guest designer and critic Ellen Lupton said that “the type can take it”. This collaborative zine is our exploration of giving form (formgebung) to language, whereby letterforms are constructed, translated, de-constructed, and rebuilt between participants.
Each character was rendered individually by two participants and then re-constructed into a composite form by the third person, incorporating elements from previous iterations. The process pushed our notions of how type is made, shaped, and formed.
In the end, we find that new meanings are generated with each adaptation; by repeatedly altering their physical form, the glyphs are now in a permanent state of flux—at first, from maker to maker, and now, from maker to reader.
with Laura Rossi García and Mike Scaringe
In her lecture, Your Brain on Typography, at the April 2015 graphic design residency at Vermont College of Fine Arts, guest designer and critic Ellen Lupton said that “the type can take it”. This collaborative zine is our exploration of giving form (formgebung) to language, whereby letterforms are constructed, translated, de-constructed, and rebuilt between participants.
Each character was rendered individually by two participants and then re-constructed into a composite form by the third person, incorporating elements from previous iterations. The process pushed our notions of how type is made, shaped, and formed.
In the end, we find that new meanings are generated with each adaptation; by repeatedly altering their physical form, the glyphs are now in a permanent state of flux—at first, from maker to maker, and now, from maker to reader.
May 2015
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