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When physical processes mimic digital outputs, design loses its grip on reality.
There is a strange fatigue to seeing physical craftsmanship pressed into the service of algorithmic novelties. Consider how Apple Music's new logo was supposedly shaped by passing frequencies through mineral oil, an elaborate physical stunt for a purely digital asset. Meanwhile, digital platforms keep pushing the other way, like the Energie Graz annual report manipulating focus and blur to simulate physical depth of field on screen. If we are going to keep digitizing the physical and physicalizing the digital, we might as well look at symbools for a reminder of what clean, unpretentious vector work actually achieves without the theatrical backstory.
Branding
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Advertising, art direction, visual storytelling
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Websites, interaction, motion, UI
Typography
Typefaces, foundries, specimens, type in use
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Framer
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