Boulevard Nights
A Modular Type Face.
A Modular Type Face.
Modular construction consists of letters built from a concise vocabulary of often interchangeable parts in
both an additive (constructing or building up form) and or subtractive (cutting, carving or removing form)
method. This concept can be seen in the language of industrialization in Europe during the early 20th Century.
These investigations were conducted by Theo van Doesburg in 1919, Josef Albers in 1925 and Herbert Bayer
in 1925. Common to all of these approaches is an interest in reducing alphabetic forms to a limited vocabulary
of repeatable marks. It is a strategy that is still visible today and certainly can help in developing a uniformed
set of letters that will hold as a complete alphabet. With digital technology we also see a resurgence in this
method as it relates so easily to the pixel.
Boulevard Nights was a class project which has grown into a ambition to refine and expand. The class was to design a series of modules and then from their create a sing weight typeface with caps and lowercase. For the end result our class decided to look into the process of letter pressing our specimens.
both an additive (constructing or building up form) and or subtractive (cutting, carving or removing form)
method. This concept can be seen in the language of industrialization in Europe during the early 20th Century.
These investigations were conducted by Theo van Doesburg in 1919, Josef Albers in 1925 and Herbert Bayer
in 1925. Common to all of these approaches is an interest in reducing alphabetic forms to a limited vocabulary
of repeatable marks. It is a strategy that is still visible today and certainly can help in developing a uniformed
set of letters that will hold as a complete alphabet. With digital technology we also see a resurgence in this
method as it relates so easily to the pixel.
Boulevard Nights was a class project which has grown into a ambition to refine and expand. The class was to design a series of modules and then from their create a sing weight typeface with caps and lowercase. For the end result our class decided to look into the process of letter pressing our specimens.
