Alphabets and Abstractions
One of the projects I was assigned during my semester abroad was the following: Find the balance between legibility and abstraction using an alphabet of my own design. It quickly became an investigation into how letterforms are recognized. The booklet is a catalog of abstracted letters that have been stripped to the bare, recognizable, minimum.
I wanted the isolation process of each letter to be consistent. I designed a typeface from a single grid so that I could divide each letter into equal parts. With the grid, I hoped to create a typeface that was characterless too.
The other constraint was to alternate the spreads between white and a color of our choosing. Red was my first choice as it's often paired with white and black.
