‘brik font’ by craig ward is an intricate typography series made of LEGO bricks

‘can Lego be an effective medium for typography?’

following his fondness for modular-type design, the designer, creative director, and author craig ward, unveils an intricate typography series made of LEGO bricks. through his latest project dubbed ‘brik font’, the artist explores the limitations of typeface design, adding a whimsical touch to regular letters. some typefaces from the ‘brik font’ series consist of a thin, curved design while others a bold, stencil-like style. the british-born artist also plays with rounded and curved bricks and other times he gives the impression of rasterized results.

‘creativity thrives on restriction, and the LEGO building system is a testament to that. very few things have yet to be created in LEGO in some way, but the nuances of type design tend to be compromised,’  he mentioned.all images courtesy of brik font

exploring the nuance of type design

each of craig ward‘s pioneering typographic works is described with a short caption, that shows the references of the specific type of design. ‘I’m not 100% sure about what constitutes success in this undertaking — whether it’s type that overcomes the limitations of the medium or whether it’s type that embraces them. resolution is always going to be an issue when dealing with subtle curves, I’ve played with antialiasing type and the results are pretty interesting,’ said craig, tackling this issue by using techniques from computer graphics in an analog environment.

as he mentioned in an instagram post, ‘part of the idea behind this project is to create new modular typefaces, the templates for which I’ll be selling as downloadable PDFs through an etsy store for like the price of a coffee or something. this is one of my first: a 5 line condensed stencil alphabet, 55 characters in all: a-z, 0-9 and some punctuation’.

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project info:

name: brik font

artist: craig ward