Type design
Xeptic
The Philips Pavilion by Le Corbusier and Iannis Xenakis, built for Expo 58 in Brussels and torn down soon after, turned sharp, tensioned surfaces into architecture. Xeptic carries that tension into a display typeface, built from eleven modules drawn from the pavilion’s silhouettes. Each letter is assembled from the same set of shards, so the alphabet remains a coherent system, while minor optical corrections keep it legible as words.
Der Philips-Pavillon von Le Corbusier und Iannis Xenakis, gebaut für die Expo 58 in Brüssel und kurz danach abgerissen, machte scharfe, gespannte Flächen zu Architektur. Xeptic überträgt diese Spannung in eine Displayschrift aus elf Modulen, abgeleitet aus den Silhouetten des Pavillons. Jeder Buchstabe entsteht aus denselben Splittern, sodass das Alphabet ein stimmiges System bleibt, während kleine optische Korrekturen es in Wörtern lesbar halten.
PROCESS
01 Analysis
Shapes cut from photos of the Philips Pavilion and mapped back onto the building to find the forms worth keeping.
02 Sketches
Test words like hamburgefontivs show which letters fall out of rhythm, marked up and corrected round by round.
03 Modules
Nine modules build the letters, two smaller ones the punctuation.
*All projects were made during my studies and are fictional commissions.