Spikey Twisty is an experimental, process-based font designed in collaboration with Raeann Van Zee. Jarin and Raeann developed an appreciation for each other’s design sensibilities during their time together in graduate school. Their outputs seem to exist in contrast, pushing each other to think and produce differently.

In this collaborative project, they created a display font representing their mutual respect for weirdness by combining elegance and chaos. They each designed a selection of glyphs without seeing each other’s progress, only aware of the design prompt they gave themselves. This experimental process emphasized a need for trust in the prompt they had developed together and a particular faith in what they both had envisioned.

The result is a dynamic display font that edges on illegibility. When typing, varying compositions are produced by pairing glyphs, giving even the most mundane text a sense of sensibility and disruption.

Messages from three prospective futures. Based on reading multitudes of speculative science fiction stories, these messages are authored and designed to reflect futures in which certain human values have been twisted and raised to the point of corruption.

The documents, graphic illustrations, presentations, and stories are based on these imagined futures.

A story of The Lamb who finds itself lost and disoriented in a space that is at once familiar and terrifying.

The challenge was to have Typography interact with the story and the body.

The idea of the helm as an object of protection and shielding, as well as masking, anchors the character of the lamb and its documented experience.