DESTRUCTION
TYPEFACE DESIGN / PASSION PROJECT

In protest movements, images and text are used to send a message, but can a typeface alone send a message? This is what I wanted to explore in my project. To create a typeface connected to a specific movement that would tell a story with the letters themselves.

In 2018 I was invited to attend the Memorial Peace Ceremony in Hiroshima. Sitting at the ceremony, I realized I had a huge lack of knowledge regarding this tragedy. So my own lack of knowledge was the starting point in my historical research on the design and symbols used in the anti-nuclear movement. I wanted to highlight the fact that the anti-nuclear movement is not a movement frozen in the past.

A lot of the visual research I found were images of maps visualizing the damages from an above perspective. I wanted to get down to ground level and visualize from a ground perspective in an attempted to somehow make it more human.

The aim with Destruction is to bring attention to this movement. Nuclear weapons is not an issue that regards some people more than others, a potential attack will affect all humans and our planet.