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Good types and good typographers can really made my day… especially if their visual language is somehow connected with the comprehension and understanding of human reactions and sign dictionary…
As a matter a fact, I think that every designer creates his/hers very, very own sign compendium and that’s the most intriguing thing that attracted my attention…
Pi+Symbol typographic construction – emoTip+ by N. N. Polondak (c)
Last project that moved me in that direction was newest work by designer Natalija Nikalj Polondak ‘Pi+Symbol typographic construction’ created as OpenType typography which author categorizes as Info-design.
OpenType is created as a typographic system enabled for documenting / tagging different emotional conditions, the emoTip+. Therefore, the project can be used widely in public spaces and in a personal environment.
Font: Monitoring by Natalija Nikalj Polondak (c)
Designer describes emoTip+ as building blocks, each differ from other, ready to be combined with an aim to visualize 14 emotional states, no matter which prefixes they have: plus or minus. Polondak opened the structure in order to open the system of signs for ‘linear and non-linear models, like some mental maps or intimate info-graphics’.
In its basic form, emoTip+ represents a turn of 252 hours/ 12 hours per day / 21 days with a possibility of colour management which could potentiate the process of colouring each category: five colours making jointly 70 colours in the map.
Font: Monitoring by Natalija Nikalj Polondak (c)
Describing her project Monitoring, Natalija perfectly summarized the way she sees thingz in design: ‘Primary goal was to design a font, but for now, the result is a sign system. Motivation has derived from three sources. One was the subject of restraining access to information, such as passwords and security levels. Other entirety that motivates me are safety sign systems, in accordance with my usual designer research interests – mass systems for open spaces – in example, IALA and IMO signalling and orientation signs on sea. In the end, to advance the idea, I used third source – monitoring.’
Poster Monitoring by Natalija Nikalj Polondak (c)
‘Issues that are also appetizing are pictogram systems and geographical and nautical chart signs, as well as topographic signs. Inside my own sign system there are satellite monitoring and air surveillance signs, in form of doubled rounded element that is drawn into the sign structure, comprised with symbols that suggest direction note or movement curve as linear entry, arrows, dots, array of lines, warning signs’.
Font: Monitoring by Natalija Nikalj Polondak (c)
Natalija Nikalj Polondah (1971, Zagreb) holds BA from the Academy of Fine Arts. At the moment she’s working on her MA thesis (emoTip+) at the Visual Communications Design department of Fine Arts Academy in Ljubljana (Slovenia). Her artworkz were exhibited at solo and group exhibitions. She works as designer in IT industry.
