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006 THE TYPOGRAPHER'S PERFORMANCE

Behind the scenes footage of A Window to Reality.

Agata created her own typeface inspired by Art Nouveau and mixed the hand made quality of the arts and crafts movement with tropes of Modernist structuralism for the final part of A Window to Reality. This is how it went…

 

BEHIND THE SCENES: THE TYPOGRAPHER

In this case “decoration” became the key word for the whole project. So you could also call it “de-coration” - so getting rid of everything that is core (the rules and the principles) and leaving only the visual elements.
— Agata Tomaszek
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