Alphabetical playground

Abstract

"Driven by a fascination with the alphabet as a vessel for unlimited visual concepts, systems and languages, Alphabetical Playground explores a wide range of themes concerning expression in text. It presents a series of graphic experiments that investigate and manipulate the building blocks of language. Beginning as a series of ongoing variable type experiments, unused project concepts and playful takes on existing letterform typologies, the book is an attempt to consolidate these varying ideas into a playful collection of Alphabets, a showcase of how far we can push the medium of type design and structure."

Contents

Foreword / Hamish Muir -- Introduction -- Alphanumeric -- Bisect -- Cursive -- Dimensional -- Embedded geometry -- Frameworks -- Gradated -- Horizontal -- Inverting -- Justified -- Kinetic -- Letters-within-letters -- Matrix -- Neo-matrix -- Oblique -- Phonetic -- Quadrisect -- Recontextualised -- Shifted pattern -- Tessellation -- Ultra -- Vertical -- Woven -- XYZ mixed system.