Overall Project Statement
This work explores typography as a system in motion—where letterforms are not fixed, but continuously shifting through interaction, time, and sequence. Across rotating prints, mechanical clockwork, and hand-held flipbooks, each piece invites the viewer to participate in the construction of form and meaning.
Rather than presenting stable, legible characters, this work embraces fragmentation, misalignment, and transformation—revealing how letters can break apart and reassemble into new configurations. Whether driven by touch, mechanism, or pacing, each format introduces a different way of experiencing time, positioning typography as something to be navigated rather than simply read.
This exploration reflects a broader interest in how reading and legibility are experienced differently—where meaning is not always immediate, but constructed over time.
Rotational Studies
Wiggly “A” | Laser Cut Letterpress Print, 2025
Influenced by Wolfgang Weingart’s experimental approach to typography, this piece explores the manipulation of a single letterform through analog processes. A wood type “A” was letterpress printed, then laser cut into concentric circular layers, each sharing a fixed center point. Bound with a brass paper fastener, the layers rotate independently, allowing the letterform to shift, distort, and recompose through interaction.
The result is a kinetic system in which a static form becomes fluid; inviting the viewer to participate in its continual transformation.
Out of Sorts | Laser Cut Letterpress Print, 2025
Out of Sorts extends this investigation into layered, interactive typography by introducing multiple letterforms across rotating planes. Each layer contains fragments of printed type that, when aligned or misaligned, generate new compositions and unexpected visual relationships.
Rather than presenting fixed characters, the work explores how letterforms break apart and recombine—producing moments that suggest unfamiliar or “new” typographic forms. The piece operates as both a system and a tool for discovery, where legibility is unstable and continuously negotiated.
Mechanical Time
Out of Sorts Clock | Laser Cut Letterpress Print in Clock Frame with Mechanism, 2025
This work translates the Out of Sorts system into a time-based format. Using a different wood typeface for each letter of the alphabet, a full typographic specimen was letterpress printed, then divided into four laser-cut layers: a static background and three moving elements corresponding to the hour, minute, and second hands.
Driven by a clock mechanism, the composition continuously shifts over a 12-hour cycle. Alignments occur briefly, then dissolve—creating an ever-changing field of typographic relationships.
The piece transforms a traditional specimen into a kinetic experience, where time itself becomes the system that reorganizes form, meaning, and legibility.
Final Piece
Final Type Specimen Print
Laser cutting a print in a circle for the clock
Assembling the layers on the different clock hands
Sequential Studies
Flipbook Studies (Animations Translated TO PRINT)
Digital Fragmentation Using the Image Fragmenter.APP → Digital Printed Flipbooks, 2025
Using Image Fragmenter, letterforms were digitally fragmented and animated through a series of transformations. Each frame was then printed and bound into flipbooks, translating screen-based motion into a tactile, time-based experience.
By shifting the work from digital animation to physical sequencing, the piece slows down the act of viewing—requiring the reader to control pacing and engage with each incremental change. The result bridges digital and analog processes, extending the investigation of typographic instability into a handheld format.
