Typographic Matter
Client
Self-project
Year
2025
Overview
Typographic Matter is a personal exploration focused on typography as both form and material. The project examines how type can move beyond readability, becoming texture, rhythm, and visual structure. Rather than serving content, typography itself becomes the subject. Through composition, contrast, and spatial control, the project treats letters as visual elements that carry emotion, tension, and balance.
Challenge
This project challenges the conventions of typography by stripping it down to its most essential elements, structure, rhythm, and emotion. Each page serves as a visual experiment, questioning how letters behave when freed from the limits of readability and symmetry. The design process revolved around chaos and balance, letting type become both message and material. The layout was constructed with deliberate tension, oversized characters colliding with negative space, asymmetrical grids breaking traditional order, and subtle alignments guiding the viewer’s eye across unexpected compositions. Through distortion and repetition, the book transforms typography into a visual narrative rather than a tool for communication. “Typographic Matter” celebrates imperfection and intuition. It rejects uniformity in favor of expression, embracing how letterforms can evoke mood and movement even without words. The final artbook becomes a reflection on how typography isn’t just read, it’s felt.
Solution
The project was approached through systematic exploration and repetition. Type was manipulated through scale shifts, density, and spatial tension, allowing compositions to evolve organically within defined constraints.
Result
The result is a series of typographic compositions that feel structured yet expressive. Each piece stands as an individual exploration, while collectively forming a cohesive visual language. Typographic Matter demonstrates how typography alone can carry presence and meaning. proving that clarity, restraint, and experimentation can coexist within a single system.
