The complete, custom e-commerce and distribution platform for JulyType (founded by designer Edward Dzulaj) was engineered. This specialized system handles complex licensing models, free trials, and typeface previews. It was architected to support the foundry’s commitment to high-quality typefaces and comprehensive language support, integrating specialized distribution logic essential for a niche business dealing in retail and custom type licenses for a global audience.

Designed by: Hyeonjeong Kim & Edward Dżułaj
Website: julytype.com

Complete platform development and back-end architecture for this educational initiative, collaborating with designer Zahari Dimitrov. The system utilized a tailored CMS and structured data framework to allow the maintainers of the project to focus on the content of their events and activities.

Designed by: Zahari Dimitrov
Website: knowhowshowhor.org

Development and implementation of the entire front-end and back-end structure for designer Clara Lezla’s sophisticated portfolio. The focus centered on engineering a high-performance platform with a robust CMS to organize and present diverse media and conceptual work.

Website: claralezla.com

The technical foundation for this minimalist digital art collection platform was established, translating the design by Dana Doorenbos and Auke Lansink into a robust, highly responsive, and easily managed online presence. The implementation prioritized seamless navigation and high fidelity to the required aesthetic.

Website: comeinyourewelcome.nl

The core live type tool for the Garden for Living Type research project (in collaboration with Edward July and Johannes Verwoerd) was developed. This tool allowed the designers to experiment with various images and drawings, employing custom algorithms to introduce dynamic behavior to digital typography. Utilising the Java library Processing, this allowed the integration with Microsoft Kinect for the exhibition later.

In collaboration with: Johannes Verwoerd & Edward Dżułaj

AR animation viewed through the Fatschadas on the façade of the ‘Aalt Huus’, the Heimatmuseum Safien, Switzerland.

Invited by Curdin Tones to develop an animation tool for bringing this beautiful type alive. After lots of iterations, we devised a snappy and robust tool that leaves lots of space for experimentation. The typeface was also ‘revived’ specifically for the project.

Project Initiated by: Curdin Tones
AR App developed by: Jan Robert Leegte

Tool developed with NodeJS and Electron to parse through text documents.

The Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB) embarked on a project to map out every construction site inside or near a protected zone. This is part of the EU programme Natura 2000 to conserve natural habitats. I volunteered to help by creating a (NodeJS) tool to automate the task of going through thousands of Bulgarian documents and sieve through the necessary information.

After Edward Dżułaj worked on Panama, on which I helped, Edward and I decided to develop another version—Bogota—which will be more distorted and unpredictable.

The script affected certain parts of the letter shapes resulting in something we could not predict exactly. This fit perfectly with the concept that our friends Seojeong Youn and Selina Landis developed later for the exhibition poster.

Font Files

Supervised by: Matthias Kreutzer (OPS), Just van Rossum
Part of: The Giant Floating Eyeball—Finance & Algorithm exhibition

The project investigates how languages developed their scripts and the logic or lack of logic to construct a new writing system based on arbitrary parameters. The Latin writing system has dominated the world ever since the printing press was invented and there has been a wrong perception that it is somehow superior.

That is impossible to determine. Humans adapt to their writing systems regardless of its complexity. Thus any sequence of letters could be a writing system. My research led to me to investigate and delve further into the history and structure of real and constructed languages. Mostly happening with the help of the amazing www.omniglot.com and Frank E. Blokland.

The result was a script that can notate English and Bulgarian sounds, but the system works similarly to Mongolian. Written from top to bottom, left to right, with initial, medial and final forms, similar to Arabic.

PDF of the research

Font File

Supervised by: Frank E. Blokland

The Giant Floating Eyeball was a project collaboration between the Dutch Ministry of Finance and the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK). The first issue of the newspaper featured many articles on the topics of finance, predictions, algorithms and ethics.

Emily Anderson and I devised and designed a prediction for the month of April according to the phases of the moon. When to invest and when to hold? Surprisingly many people are ‘influenced’ by the phases of the moon, consciously or not, and can slightly change their own behaviour, therefore the economy. Fortunately, it all passed and nobody held us accountable.

Supervised by: Matthias Kreutzer (OPS), James Graves, Maarten Cornel

“Singularitarianism is a movement defined by the belief that a technological singularity—the creation of superintelligence—will likely happen in the medium future, and that deliberate action ought to be taken to ensure that the singularity benefits humans.”
—en.wikipedia.org

By deciding not to produce any digital work, the installation resulted in a comic book that synthesises all the important people in the field and their contrasting opinions, plus some of the most important achievements of the last decade.

3 x 1.5 m

Supervised by: Hannes Bernard (SulSolSal), Kévin Bray

Short experimental film inspired by the never-realised, but drawn-out, scene ‘Across the Galaxy’ by Jean Giraud for Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Dune. Rendered in pure ASCII, the animation can cross the universe with its small size of under 20MB.

Part of: Asciimator

I have always been fascinated with the idea of Babel: people talking one language, working together, reaching for the unreachable. Luckily the book ‘De Grote Werken den Mensheid’ synthesised all of humanity’s buildings. This film wants to twist the legend and finish what they have started.

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Supervised by: Esther de Vries

The film explores the connection of our digital habitat and nature. A safari through the very controlled and designed savannah of the Mac operating systems. What are the influences of our natural environment on our virtual one? How have we done that?

In collaboration with: Michelle Janssen and Fien Leeflang
Supervised by: Lauren Alexander (Foundland Collective)

Short experimental sci-fi film telling the story of a future burdened with tension, which escalates in a war. In this world some people are tired of technological progress and want to stay wherever they are. The rest do not accept this. An imminent war breaks out to bring balance to a shattered world.

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Supervised by: Hannes Bernard (SulSolSal)