Interactive Maze Type

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Typography has always inspired me, although I didn’t always know it. Recently I have been really inspired by the mood that typography brings to my work and to the work of others. I want to create typefaces that have a distinct mood and identity to them, typefaces that really inspire people and make them feel nostalgic or happy or sad. I like the idea of how much emotion and feel that typography carries when it takes such a backseat to the design work that it is describing. I want to make type the art and have the graphic pieces compliment the typography. I have been inspired by the grocery store games that you buy out of the 25-cent machines. It gives me a sense of nostalgia that I want to develop into my typography. The idea of a very limited edition piece really speaks to me in this medium because it is contrary to the low-cost multiple of how the original object is made. I want to experiment with new mediums of production that are very beautiful, simple, elegant, and really display the form of the object nicely. I was thinking about researching types of wood and types of metals that could be 3d cut and 3d scanned to create very sleek looking maze pieces as a medium for my typography. The individual letter pieces would look great as a mock of the actual maze game they would work very well individually as a a game and a type piece and also work very well together interacting as a type project. I want to also bring this project further as a whole piece that could function as a labyrinth game, which also functions as a table that the viewer can interact with. I really want to explore the idea of interaction with typography and the installation of the typography to display the pieces. I also want to incorporate recyclables into my type design and then install them in an interactive way. I want to develop type to investigate ways that we can recycle by creating experimental type that originates from the recycled products. The interactivity of typeface design is very interesting to me and I want that to be a very crucial point of my BFA project. I would like all of the typeface design that I create to be inspired by objects that can be interacted with. This creates an interesting collaboration of style and form.