TYPEFACE REMIXES & REMAKES
Especially in the digital age, Letraset films provide easy access to a surprisingly intuitive, engaging and inspiring way of hand-typed typography. With original Letraset slides, characters were deconstructed and recombined by hand. The stimulus for his own creativity lay in the deliberate limitation of his possibilities for action and the poetic finality of the available material Letraset.
The options for action were gradually expanded. The aim was to create analog remixes / remakes of existing fonts with Letraset, as well as the creation of your own digital font type set and the individual use and application of the generated font and finally the publication of the result and the applications.
Remix = mix something new: From the aforementioned analog ruby letters, a new font was created from two different already existing fonts. From a Letraset arc of the Hawthorn and the Avantgarde Gothic, a fixed principle of each letter (also the numbers from 0-9, exclamation mark / question mark as well as the Et-character) were mixed with the respectively matching counterpart of the other font and so a new font was created. This served as a basis for the subsequent remake.
Remake = re-design: existing posters, pictures, advertisements, etc. were chosen as the basis. This is redesigned with the previously created writing, with the requirement not to touch its optical appearance, but only to replace the typographical elements with the mixed font.
This resulted in a small book, with 26 remake pictures which document the process of the creation of the new font and the resulting new old pictures.
Format: W × H: 180 × 180 mm