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New website and identity for the art review platform tangents.art

The batch is the sticker and social media icon for Instagram.

Graphic Matters, Breda

As part of the Palace of Typographic Masonry and the ‘The Alphabet of Cases’, The Annex of Universal Languages was extended with The Evolution of Emoji into a Language. The exhibition organized by Graphic Matters was running until June 18th 2023, in the Grote Kerk in Breda.

Purple Haze variable font by Font Spectrum, Daniël Maarleveld and Edgar Walthert

Variable Font in collabo­ration with Daniël Maarleveld, available at FutureFonts.xyz

Litterae Ignotae

In the 12th century, a German Benedictine abbess of Rupertsberg, St. Hildegard von Bingen, invented a vocabulary called Lingua Ignota – Latin for “unknown language”. One of the earliest invented languages, Lingua Ignota’s purpose was unclear, but speculations include a secret cipher and a universal language. What’s certain is that Hildegard is its author.

Invited by Akiem Helmling of Alphabetum to create a contemporary sans-serif revival of Litterae Ignotae, one following the characteristics of my typeface Logical, I brought together my interest in universal languages and optimal typeface legibility. For the past several years, I have explored these topics through the abstracted symbols included in Logical, and through other exhibition and research projects.

Pictograms, Signs of Life, Emojis: The Society of Signs

The exhibtion and publication project Pictograms, Signs of Life, Emojis: The Society of Signs, was shown at Leopold-Hoesch Museum in Düren and Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg. The show traces the modern pictogram from its inception with Otto Neurath (1882–1945) in the 1920s to the present day.

Next to my own work, I contribute my research and contacts to co-curator Maxim Weirich who was repsonsible for the contemporary part of the exhibition. Since the exhibtion had to be closed for public during Covid-19, Maxim and I decided to creat a website showcasing the exhibitoni online. The Society of Signs is offline since the physical exhibition closed. We are planing to reopen the website as an archive for visual languages.