Letterform Variations reportage Written between 1974 and 2009

Written between 1974 and 2009

In collaboration with a team of authors from ECAL and Fondazione Vico Magistretti

The pandemic has once made us more aware of the fragility of life and the importance of being able to properly mourn the dead

Kandinsky attempts to develop an order of form types

Culmination und Aufräumen prägnant zusammenfasst

Letterform Variations reportage Written between 1974 and 2009Letterform Variations is a playful study into letterform construction using basic grid and shape based systems, and its potential to generate vast amounts of varying alphabetical outcomes. Letterform Variations is the product of Nigel Cottiers methodology for developing letterforms that are based partly on visual transformations generated by algorithmic functions, such as constraints, rules, grids, and modules, and partly on designerly judgements