011—Hof University— DEU— TYPOGRAPHIC CYBORGS

Students at Creative Coding class at Communication Design at Hof University were creating Typographic Cyborgs by remixing a 3D scan of themselves and a selected letter into a hybrid between human and font. In different variants the letter becomes part of their body, they are becoming a part of the letter or the letter will be the environment, architecture, or furniture.

The approach to working with type is to let the type become part of the image or object and let it contribute to the character of the image instead of hiding it in the corners.

This e is knitted from TypeJockey, an alphabet system by Andrea Tinnes consisting of 14 freely combinable fonts with different patterns. It is part of the book Pixel, Patch and Pattern. Typeknitting published by Verlag Hermann Schmidt.