Atomisation du symbolique

Brief: Generative design course with Anette Lenz and Nicolas Baldran: turn a concept from Byung-Chul Han’s The Disappearance of Rituals into an explicit typographic rule, then deploy it in a generator, a poster series and an editorial object.

Concept: Han describes how the symbols that hold a community together are breaking apart. Rather than illustrating this atomisation, we wanted the reader to experience it.

Design: A generative tool coded in HTML and JavaScript. It opens on a normal justified text: clicking a word bursts it into a ring, clicking again scatters it into loose letters. Parameters for size, leading and tracking push the fragmentation further, captured in a series of posters and a printed booklet.