Modular Type Elements, a workbook, contains a brief introduction to drawing letterforms in general—with a modular approach in particular. Together with illustrations, prompts and samples, it includes an acrylic stencil with geometric shapes and adhesive stickers to build characters from the outside in. Among other surprises, the set includes an assortment of paper printed with different grids.
Composed with various digital technologies and mechanical as well as manual work, the design process involved hands-on experimentation, workshops, and a prior edition. For its assembly we used laser engraving and perforation along with photographic methods and relief printing that produce a contrast between—say—the sharpness of vector graphics and the tactile tension of wood printing. Consequently, each work is a bit different from the others. Yet its pages are not precious, but conform an unfinished object, meant to be completed by its owner.
Modular Type Elements is filled with cyphered messages and open endings. A collaborative work since its conception, the back cover invites users to share the samples of their work on social media, with the hope that in the future, we might be able to pull examples from people across the world and turn them into a multiple-authored specimen publication.
- Design and concept development, Typographic content
- Lorena Howard-Sheridan
- Letterforms and digital production
- Lorena Howard-Sheridan
- Design and content development
- Meredith Miller
- Hand-printing and binding, vignettes, laser production
- Meredith Miller
- Text editor
- Kate Templeton
- Back cover text editor
- Julie Sohn
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