A visual language
Forms
For over a decade the foundation has been children’s building blocks. I’ve built a personal vocabulary of shapes from them. Each one carries meaning.
Typoe
Rule one
Balance. Every piece could fall.
Rule two
Light and dark. One serves the other.
The forms are the words. How they stack is the grammar. A block alone is a block. A raven on a block is a sentence.
The Afterlife
The dark half. The forms that acknowledge what ends.
“Ravens and tombstones, hourglasses, to reference life, time and death.”
The Happy Place
The light half. Childhood, and what it becomes.
“It's this balance of the happiness in life and the darkness in life. And I think part of the balance is how one serves the other.”
The World Around Me
Art history, fashion, nature. The forms borrowed from looking.
“I've created many of my own shapes referencing art history, fashion, nature, connectivity, and the afterlife. The two themes I used throughout the blocks are balance and building the world around us.”
The Blocks
Friedrich Froebel invented kindergarten and building blocks in the 1830s. The Bauhaus made its own set in 1923. These are the pieces everything else stands on.
“I started with the basic building block shapes, like triangles, rectangles, squares, and archways. But I thought it would be fun to create my own shapes and icons.”