Mildewy by
Saara Kuum
In this project, the process of digital decay was compared with the decay in the natural world and brought together in one space. Inspired by the early days of the internet and digital decay, where websites stop working properly over time, links take you to wrong sites or nowhere, and visuals no longer display due to constant updates and new softwares, something sprouted. The basic elements of the typeface, such as circles, long and short lines, crescents, etc., were made by growing mycelium in Petri dishes.
Since the first personal computer came into this world in the 1980s, there have already been three generations of the World Wide Web. Web standards have continuously evolved, and graphical user interfaces surround us everywhere on various devices. Most human computer interactions and the resulting interfaces are not designed with a cultural mission in mind, but defined by the five largest, most dominant, and most prestigious companies in the information technology industry. By studying visual and structural constraints that we are facing through predefined interaction surfaces, and the standards, norms, influences and styles that have been established, each student designed a typeface and its habitat on this website.
Participating students
Niklas Weisenbach ↘ HMT John Weber ↘ Anomalie Juhee Han ↘ White Forest Michele Sablone ↘ Hypersonic Emre Kızıldelioğlu ↘ Sync Moritz Schneider ↘ What Do You Recognize? Joel Luca Sequeira Ferreira ↘ Modern Balance Sophie Eckhardt ↘ Four Tones Saara Kuum ↘ Mildewy Tizian Repp ↘ Wetlands Felix Harr ↘ ReditusThis website was programmed by Simon Knebl.
The Habitat of a Typeface Today was a seminar at the Communication Department of Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in the summer semester of 2022 supervised by Katharina Köhler.
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