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Explore 3 award-winning designs tagged Typography on A Design News.

Whoatemytofu Typography

Whoatemytofu

Whoatemytofu is a social design project built around an open-source typeface named The Tofu Type. The name refers to a Chinese proverb that uses eating tofu as a metaphor for sexual harassment. The letterforms were shaped by the process of cutting tofu, and the negative spaces recall the cut material. The project also includes a poster series and a website concept. Visitors can enter hurtful words heard during harassment and receive a poster to share on social media with a hashtag. The typeface can be downloaded free of charge. The aim is to give victims a voice and a sense of unity.

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Chinese Zodiac Typography

Chinese Zodiac

The Chinese Zodiac typography includes 12 characters. Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig. It combines Chinese calligraphy and Chinese traditional watercolor drawing. With design thinking, it breaks the original calligraphy forms and adds creative drawings to it harmoniously to show the meaning of each character within itself. Chinese characters always look like complicated drawings to people who don't know Chinese. The purpose of this project is to make the Chinese characters understandable to everyone to spread Chinese culture.

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Kinetic Chinese Characters Typography

Kinetic Chinese Characters

Kinetic Chinese Characters is a series of sixteen kinetic typography works based on the components of Chinese characters. Each work has a different subject and is produced purely through computer programming and algorithms, using Processing. The addition of generative technology makes the once fixed timeline of the characters variable and the results unpredictable. A short appreciation essay accompanies each work, following the Asian tradition of presenting poetry and painting together. The series shows how kinetic design can be applied to Chinese characters.

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