Survival in the 21st Century

Custom typefaces and visual identity for the exhibition Survival in the 21st Century curated by Georg Diez and Nicolaus Schafhausen, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, 2024

Image courtesy of Deichtorhallen Hamburg, photo: Henning Rogge

Emanuel Nine Memorial

A custom typeface for the Emanuel Nine Memorial honoring the clergy and members who were murdered at Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Commissioned by Pentagram, New York.

Hand-painted gothic inscriptions on the stained-glass windows of a church capture the solemnity of Pentagram team’s trip to Charleston. The expressive Gothic Textura Script is an homage to these Gothic scriptures and the organic scriptures drawn by a local artist.

The typeface can also be seen on the Memorial website and engraved on the Memorial fountain, a sacred space on the grounds of the church.
Image courtesy of Pentagram

Chittagong memorial

Chittagong Memorial is a remembrance book, immortalizing the shipbreaking activities in Chittagong, a seaport in Southeastern Bangladesh.

Based on data archives from the Ship Breaking Platform, the book acts as a historical window into 109 retired cargo ships and their fates with their undertakers through the eyes of typology. Each curve and dip of these letters illustrates stories of untold facts and figures behind the container ships, from their origin to their last sail before meeting their demise at Chittagong Graveyard. By shedding light on this period in history, it is easier to understand that the dismantling process and uneconomical operation led to problematic issues, such as poor working conditions of the shipbreakers and its lack of environmental awareness. 

Alongside the typological research, the book was accompanied by satellite imagery showing the geographic landscape of the shipyard and the locations of the 109 ships docked onshore. The design research began at Rotterdam’s Maasvlakte area and was published in Eindhoven

Rosas Enigmas

An artist catalog with the lettering as identity

Published in March 2021, Rosas Enigmas is created by artist Rosario Zorraquin, curator and writer Rosa de Graaf, and designer Nicha Keeratiphanthawong. This online publication, seeks to provide a tangential context for Rosario’s art-making, which will continue to evolve over time. The audio-visual accompaniment is produced by Keeratiphanthawong, using footage taken by the artist and her collaborators.

Ellipsis after Closure

Ellipsis after Closure is set in a variable font ‘State’, and a display font ‘Ellipsis’ by Recent Practice

Following endless digital threads of information and being in constant touch with ‘hardware,’ it is easy to forget one’s bodily presence and situatedness. Weavings, just like computer coding, are complex automated nettings. Only the point of rupture—a dropped stitch, like a bug in the code, a systemic error—redirects the attention outside of the machine by requesting a manual intervention.

‘Ellipsis after Closure’ is a show in book form by Tabea Nixdorff and Nicha Keeratiphanthawong, with mended hole contributions submitted by participants who took part in hole mending meditation workshops in 2020.

The book has been selected by Tokyo TDC Annual Awards 2022
and featured in the annual book.
(image courtesy of books.at.ret)

Huai

Huai represents the culmination of research into the duality of influences between handwritten, vernacular Thai lettering and Latin typefaces. The result is a warm, expressive typeface that doesn’t abandon the human hands and the language that produced them.

Awards and features:
ATypI 2020
Joseph Binder Award 2020: Distinction/Finalist, Vienna
Priminister Awards 2020
STA100, a 2020 Design Competition
by Society of Typographic Arts, Chicago
TDC 67 Type Design Competition: Judge’s choice
by Type Directors Club, New York
TypeCon 2021
Typewknd 2021

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Artist website for Jason Hendrik Hansma