New Alphabet

For my typography project I picked the name 'Wim Crouwel'. After conducting a bit of basic internet research I found out that Wim Crouwell is a dutch graphic designer and typographer, most famous for his mordenist typeface: new alphabet(1967):



This font was also used on the cover of a compilation called 'Substance' (Joy Division, 1988) Funnily enough I'm a big fan of old music, particularly 80's altern and Joy Division are a favourite of mine.



Another fun fact: Apparently the 'N' on the cover is actually a 'M' in the alphabet.

I really love the alphabet that Wim came up with, it was based around the idea of dot matrix (I presume printers) and was meant to be made easier for computers to read. I think it really works because although abstract, the lines that he removes or adds don't take away from me being able to understand the word. Very cleverly designed and realised!

More to come soon.