Two Ears One Mouth: Issue Identity for Triple Canopy


Triple Canopy’s issue, Two Ears and One Mouth, is devoted to the entanglement of speaking and listening, the right to expression and the right to be heard. This identity featured a typeface drawn from the early sketches of Bauhaus pedagogue, Joost Schmidt, who was interested new ways of drawing and shaping language. This identity was developed under the creative direction of Caleb Waldorf and in collaboration with Franklin Vandiver.

 

Grids by Joost Schmidt, which were pedagogical tools through which to draw language

The typeface Joost and its grid, detail.


Grid inspired by Schmidt’s drawings, expanded and adapted to increase character set and update it for contemporary screens.



Upper and lowercase forms
Type treatment for multiple screen and EPUB formats


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