OFF THE SCREEN

Yes! For good sake there is a world out of the box, beyond the monitor. Even if the digital is at the origin, the outcome goes far beyond mere zeros and ones. Today’s typography fuses, mixes, and combines all disciplines—music, movie, installation art, sculpture, street art, and … you name it.

Completely detached from content, words and letters become form. A vision of terror for all preachers of the “The Reinheitsgebot” (German “purity order,” a series of standards limiting the ingredients … in beer); a blessing for all those who delight in pure aesthetics, detached from ’meaning.’ A materialization of writing, so to speak. In the process, letters are purely created to be touched, to be worn (and thrown away). The physical space serves as a stage in which writing becomes image, material, object, and sculpture.

257——Aleksandra Zawistowska, Yon Matauko, Stefania Rigoni——NLD, ITA——FINALLY, THINGS ARE HAPPENING

Graduation show project of the class of 2021 of Studio for Immediate Spaces at the Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam. The graphics were born out of a formal and material research on the aesthetic qualities of papers alien to the typewriter. All the different components were physically typed on toilet paper and later on scanned and reprinted. Toilet paper is a metaphor of the immediacy of the current times. A way to grasp the zeitgeist of the transition that humanity is experiencing. A time of uncertainty.

258——Alexis Mark——DNK——COLD FACTS (CAMPAIGN FOR GANNI)

The Cold Fact Popsicle is an awareness appetizer. It’s not meant to sweeten your day. It’s not meant to point fingers at you either. It’s a simple serving of ice cold facts, giving you a heads up on our planetary situation. And hopefully, a reminder to take part in cooling down the Earth together. Photos ©: David Stjernholm.