My first week development of my div-based typeface where I introduced a level of interactivity (I eventually had to leave out the hover stuff because it just took waaaaaay too long to add interactivity for each letter).

A to Z, 0 to 3! What started off as playing around with the rules of CSS classes and high-contrast forms turned into a blackletter-inspired div-based typeface.

Building off of the event’s thematic inspiration, Marshall McLuhan’s “The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of the Industrial Man”, this promotional website imagines what the collision of folklore and the web could look like. Using maximalist type and nods towards the calligraphic forms of illuminated scripture, the site echoes the event speakers’ concerns of our awareness of our digital surroundings. While I haven’t had the chance to make this website responsive yet, check out how sick it looks when all the elements collide! (Don’t worry, I will get around to making it responsive over the break—it’s defs gonna be a portfolio piece)

Designed by Lucas Le Bihan (Also the designer for Sporting Grotesque! Love that font!). A modern recut of times, which I thought well-suited the event’s theme of re-thinking our relationship with the web! I also just really enjoy Velvetyne’s website in terms of design (which, ATM is currently redirecting to a site about the strike, but hopefully you’re familiar with what it typically looks like. The strike website is also super cool though!)

Designed by Jean-Baptiste Morizot (For a look into the thinking/inspiration/design behind this font read the post-mortem of this font here). A cool font borrowing from old calligraphic forms, similar reasons of use as Happy Times.

I used sticky elements to create a scrolling experience reminiscent of flipping through pages of a book. I could never figure out the weird stuff that happens when you scroll down to the last element on the page, so I ended up just putting some secret text in the empty space that revealed itself once you scroll all the way to the bottom.