E A S T _ type

The project E A S T is an exploration of my personal connection (disconnection?) with the landscape which surrounded me growing up in an Easter European living block district. Soc-realism and brutalist style architecture evoke a weird sense of familiarity and belonging, while the buildings' visual language remains derived of sentimentality.

After leaving for a longer period of time, the nature of this place started to shift towards hostility and transfer to exist mainly in my memory. It became more subjective as the act of remembering blurs and highlights details selectively, but it also became more objective as the place lost its primary role in defining my identity. I created this set of letters through mixing together my own photo documentation, AI generated content and 3D models, to achieve a process which strips and shapes the visuals though both sentimental and calculated intervension.

Mixed media, locations: Budapest, Miskolc

Instect typography

Ips Typographus is a type of wood lice, named after its talent in design. I have collected wood pieces affected by the insect's letter design activity, and preserved these sticks as if they were .ttf files.

Found typography is a method which has the potential to grow into a bigger project: centering non-human creators in a field which seemingly ties strongly to literacy. The marks resembles human calligraphy, but preserve semantic meanings of their own, as they contain unique information for species which encounter it.

A piece of wood from the collection, typography traced.

Letter X

The animation was created through printing the frames with a risograph printer, then letting the imperfections of the print create a noisy texture.

The project was created as part of a typoraphy challenge initiated by the Budapest Design Week.

Design, animation and risograph printing

Type Sketches

I have way too many sketchbooks, but there is one I actually use.
Here are some sketches from 2023-2024.