Type Museum is an annual type exhibition at Emily Carr University of Art + Design put together by Peter Cocking and the class of COMD-404: Complex Typography. The purpose of this show is to use typography to communicate something important about typography; about its history or its practice, its application or its significance.
My exhibit uses lettering to emphasize the idea that typefaces have personality, just like humans! It can be as obvious as how you wouldn't see the same typeface used for a Vancouver Sun newspaper article and Dylan's 4th birthday party invitation—they speak to two completely different settings. But as designers, the truth behind the scenes is that we often wrestle with the tiniest of differences in the typefaces, in order to find the perfect fit that can make or break a project.
I started using lettering as a form of notetaking in my first year humanities lectures, and I quickly fell in love with the challenge of translating thoughts and ideas into illustrations and lettering in real time. So I continued to practice over the last 4 years whenever I could and am so grateful for the opportunity to be able to do live lettering for this exhibition, especially at the largest scale I have ever done before.
