By the Way – Typography and Material Behaviour

This work presents itself as a free design experiment that combines typography and various physical processes and finds expression using various media and a modular system consisting of two components: a self-designed font, produced by making 3D-printed moulds in a specially created lab and then applying a variety of different chemical and physical processes such as filling them with fuming or burning liquids. The book documents, with references to the associated website, the search for constants within the experiment, the design of the font including the development of the 3D printing models, as well as the studies of different physical phenomena. The project deliberately uses characteristics of digital applications and translates them into analogue media. Thus, the play with the acronyms and pangrams, all of which are commonly used in Internet jargon, on the models counteracts the analogue simulation of the experimental kit and, with it, the effect of slow motion, which can otherwise only be realised digitally.