Concrete Playground

It’s a one night stand, all types welcome. Unless your name is Times New Roman, Brush Script, Curlz or Comic Sans. Then you’re a slut, and who knows what kind of viruses you might be carrying. Go Font Ur Self* is a shamelessly exclusive celebration of typography as wrought by artists and designers, not by Word. They say: “Outside the bounds of traditional typesetting, and beyond the scope of familiar media, letters can become the source of experimentation, taking on a personality of their very own.” Anyone who has watched Sesame Street knows that.

Chapter 4’s contributors include: Raza Uno, toting a paletteful of Benday dots from Venezuela; the psychedelic slopey word sculptures of Sarah A. King; a man who enjoys clean lines and balancing positive and negative space, Adrian Gray; the trippy Disney mutations of Super Expresso from Spain; tattoo artist Rob Abel; and locals Blends, Yok, Saynt, all with backgrounds in the original gallery for original typography, the street. Unfortunately, this font won't be going.

Image by Sarah A. King.