Poster for a presentation I made of my 50 years graphic design work at Sint Lucas Antwerpen, Belgium, with a title that translates to “The Power of Typography Within Branding”. The pixel e is my logotype for ‘erik’! The title and information at the bottom is set in caps from Brockmann.

Built on top of WordPress, the Substans blog was designed to accomodate long stretches of text. The site borrows a metaphor from print, with images and backgrounds bleeding into the edges of the browser.

The body copy is typeset in Monokrom’s low resolution-geared grotesque, Aften Screen, accompanied by a hand-hinted Tiina (with special permission from OurType) in headlines and block quotes.

Meta information like search, tags, authors and categories is typeset in Aften Trio, a hybrid monospaced/proportional variation of Aften.

“Between activism and asceticism.” The logotype – provided in various optical sizes – swaps the A in SUBSTANS for a barefoot wanderer. Based on Aften Screen.