Free Radicals is a symposium that took place between 23 and 25 May 2025 in Prague, followed by additional events along the course of two years in other European cities. It is dedicated to exploring the state of play around thinking with plants in creative research and brought together artists, scientists, researchers, and creative practitioners.
Its communication was created by type and graphic designer Jolana Sýkorová. She used the free font NaN Holo Gigawide Ultra for all titles and NaN Holo’s Regular for all other texts. Sýkorová makes a liberal use of the blocky and black titling fonts for big headlines in all-caps with a tight linespacing and mid-word linebreaks to accommodate with the wideness of the font. The relative control of the layout is occasionally disturbed by mid-word change in the colour of the fonts and by a recurring pattern of colourful polka dots overlapping the words, like a kind of mold or lichen.
