The workshop was designed based on the ISTD Student Assessment Scheme briefs proposals. The Invisible Cities brief aimed to develop a typographic piece of clever, considered graphic design, creating a new edition of the book to be published. The publisher wanted the book to form a radical retelling; its typography explores visually each of the cities, reflecting their characteristics and idiosyncrasies.

The cities are divided into eleven different topics, having five cities in each one, making a total of fifty-five different cities. Also, there are nine chapters, and due to the way it is organized, a chessboard pattern is created. Researching further about the mathematical structure of the book allowed me to develop a visual system using type as a vehicle to communicate this complex structure. 

Inspired by the format of a chessboard, each city, chapter and topic has a colour assigned. Each square of the chessboard pattern has 5 letters i, and the order of the colours represent the order of the content in the book. The typographic visual developed explores the hidden structure, reflecting the essence of the book.