Symbiosis is a project focused on type experimentation. Based on the marvelous Didot Elder, I created a display font using branches and embroidery as shaping elements. The harshness of the branches is balanced by the delicacy of the detailed embroidery, they work together in a symbiotic relationship, creating natural and organic shapes that inspire quietness and latency. It's the visualization of the moment just before every system starts to bloom, the promise of a new beginning, that hasn't started yet but can already be felt.

A limited series of letter pressed posters depicting the letter A in his raw form, with no embroidery, are available to purchase.

When Greg and Sarah decided to get married, I wanted to create something special for their wedding invitation. I thought about marriage and what it signifies: two people with independent lives who commit to create and share something new. Following this ideaI decided to create an ambigram that would contain both names, reading "Sarah" from one orientation and "Greg" when flipped upside down. The final design has its own identity as an ornamental form but with a closer inspection their names can be read. In addition, the invitation became interactive requiring the guests to turn it around to see both names.

Octave has been created with the intention of fusing together the graphical elements of written musical composition with the English alphabet. My passion for illustration and typography made me naturally lean towards lettering, while music is a very important element in my creative process.
While reading the newspaper or a book, a designer might unconsciously stop acknowledging the content due to the very natureof the letters. Often in observing the fonts used in books I've read, I've thought that for those of us who work with these fonts, theyare analogous to the notes on a score in the eyes of a musician. They represent the graphic structure that builds the music by which emotions, ideas and feeling are communicated. In the same way, letters are the graphic structure with which texts are composed, making them tools to communicate emotions, ideas and feelings in their own right.

 

Graphical research work, trying diferent techniques and drawing styles.

Experiment done by mixing laces, freehand drawing, and digital illustration.

This dripping shapes contrasting with the background drawings ( like butterflies wings ones) gives to this composition visual rhythm.