Gallery Of Decay is a code-based typographic system that simulates the behavior of five organisms associated with decomposition which translates biological processes into generative letterforms. The project treats type not as static shapes but as living structures that evolve, spread, erode, and transform over time. Each specimen captures a distinct mode of decay such as linear expansion, cellular division, spore dispersal, allowing typography to behave like matter in flux rather than fixed form.
Based on the process of decomposition, The project also involved a publication in the form of a Type-specimen where each "Type-Style" explored an organism and traversed the line of legibility from alive letterform to illegible decomposed fragments.
- Designer
- Athang Samant
- Mentor
- Jennifer Cole Phillips
- Mentor
- Jeff Glendenning
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