Author: Sundeep Upadhyaya

Design always presents itself as serving the human but its real ambition is to redesign the human.- are we human?, Beatriz Colomina, and Mark Wigley. We invented the wheel. In many ways the wheel is just a tool that was designed to serve humans, but it also had a certain agency and influence over humans… Continue reading Unit 3, Term 1, Week 5 & 6.

http://walkerart.org/magazine/gordon-hall-transgender-hb2-bathroom-bill “It has always seemed wrong to me to say that we see what is before us and then interpret it, because the idea of “interpreting what we see” implies an inaccurate linearity to this process and suggests that the things themselves are fixed while our understandings of them remain malleable. Rather, we understand what… Continue reading Unit 3, term 1, week 4.

I am interested in communication that happens through typographic form. It is separate from language base communication. I am more interested in a new order meaning that could be generated through deconstructing and subverting the function of the typographic form.   Making letters 3 dimensional, augments reality, it distorts form, but at the same time it… Continue reading Unit 3, Term 1, Week 3. reflection, and iteration.

I stopped at typographic fiction last term. It was an attempt to take letterforms and create other things out of it. And the focus was on creating objects, objects whose form resembled letterforms. Letters were the starting point and It ended up with letters that looked like furniture, clay sculptures or even toys. The main… Continue reading Unit 3, Term1. Week 2 reflection

Tools are a means to an end. I have decided to explore various 3D making tools to study three dimensional form and texture. I have continued my existing enquiry about legibility and from. https://www.are.na/block/14990613 https://www.are.na/block/14990613

Type Foundries are companies that design and distribute typefaces. after designing a few fictional typefaces, it would only make sense to set up a type foundry to distribute them. And since most of these typefaces would exist as physical objects, the type foundry would focus on distributing typefaces as physical objects. https://www.are.na/block/14150592 https://www.are.na/block/14167779

Experimenting with some more 3D type https://www.are.na/block/14123466 https://www.are.na/block/14123468

In a mathematical version of Plato’s allegory, Carl Sagan tells the story of a square that lives in the two dimensional flatland, who gets launched into the third dimension by a three dimensional being. For the first time this two dimensional square experiences the third dimension. In my typographic experiments, there is an underlying desire… Continue reading ▲3

The term typographic fiction comes from Eric Brandt’s Garage wall poster project ‘Ficciones Typografika’; which is really a 24”x36” wooden exhibition space that where typographers and graphic designers can produce one-off experiments as posters that are wheat-pasted onto that wooden board. Brandt in an interview (2014) with the Medium explains what ‘typographic fictions’ are. He… Continue reading Typographic Fictions

Emigre No. 22 features an interview with Nick Bell (1992), a graphic designer and an alumnus of the London College of Printing. Bell’s experimentation with text and meaning has led him to challenge many paradigms of typography, the most important of which is legibility. A prime example of Bell’s work is ‘Psycho’, a typeface that… Continue reading What is a typeface?