👤 Presenter: Bas Jacobs from Underware
⏱️ Time: 45 mins + Q&A
💘 Suitable for: Visual designers, artists, developers, writers, or anybody who wants to write or work in higher dimensions. If you wonder what artistic research might add to your practice, you’re also more than welcome.
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The pan-European type collective Underware has been designing typefaces since 1999, among them Bello, Dolly, and Zeitung. In this lecture, they will share their insights and inside stories about type design, a field of work that has rapidly evolved in the past 25 years.
Underware explores the question: how many dimensions can a letter truly exist in? Text consists of two-dimensional letters within a one-dimensional sequence. And while we navigate a para-dimensional reality within a three-dimensional world, we already struggle to conceptualize a four-dimensional space. So, in how many dimensions can a letter exist?
In their ongoing research into new ways of writing – which has led to grammatography, among other things – Underware will discuss where their quest has currently taken them, demonstrated by hypothetical and experimental work of their artistic research, as well as commissioned and applied projects.
Until this lecture, you can think of the question: What does it mean that letters exist because they are written?
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About Underware
Underware is a pan-European design collective specializing in type and writing systems. Known for pushing the boundaries of typography, their work blends graphic design, linguistics, technology, and performance. With projects ranging from experimental typefaces to conceptual installations, Underware investigates the cultural, physical, and emotional dimensions of writing. With studios in The Hague, Helsinki, and Amsterdam, the team is happy to speak in English, Dutch, German, Finnish, some local dialects, and a bit of Spanish.
underware.nl
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