London-based design studio Johnson Banks has teamed up with UK-based Ravensbourne University, to create a complete set of 3D printed letters that showcases the character and history of each particular typeface.
Titled ‘Arkitypo’, the project started as a way to test the school’s inhouse 3D prototyping technology.
For each alphabet from ‘A’ to ‘Z’, the designers select a typeface beginning with each of the respective letter to form the sculpture.
For example, the 'C' is composed of 'Courier', used in 1950s typewriters, and thus is composed of an assemblage of typewriter keys.
The overall project took 6 months to complete and some letters took as many as 8 hours to print.
The 'A' is composed of the typeface 'akzidenz grotesk' (1896), as the design was part of a family of early san-serifs called 'grotesques'.
The 'B' is composed of the typeface 'bodoni' (1798), modeled after 'Baskerville'.
The 'C' is composed of the typeface 'courier' (1955), originally commissioned for 1950s IBM typewriters.
The 'D' is composed of 'DIN 1451', the typeface selected in 1936 as the standard for german engineering and civil service projects.
The 'E' is composed of 'engravers' (1899), designed for metal engraving.
The 'F' is composed of the blackletter typeface 'Fraktur', modeled after antique carolingian minuscule and other handwritten designs.
The 'G' is composed of 'gill sans' (1933). eric gill, designer of the the typeface, is quoted as saying, “a pair of spectacles is rather like a ‘g’; I will make a ‘g’ rather like a pair of spectacles”.
The 'H' is composed of 'Helvetica' (originally 'neue haas grotesk', 1957; renamed in 1960).
[via Design Boom]
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