dan tobin smith: alphabetical

T, F, H and S from dan tobin smith’s ‘alphabetical’ project

‘alphabetical‘ sees dan tobin smith use anamorphosis to create helvetica letterforms.the project started in 2005/6 when creative review commissioned a letter a for their annual.

‘anamorphosis is a technique which dates back to the renaissance and found one of its first uses in photography with an image called ‘the human US shield‘ made in 1913, which shows a staggering 30,000 officers and men of camp cluster forming an enormous US shield. each letter has a different approach but uses helvetica as the base typography. most are temporary installations, some use landscape and some were conceived as primarily moving image (such as Letter T).’ – dan tobin smith

via type token