Podcast @radiopunt

Hi everyone, good news! Together with graphic designer Maud Declerck — a fellow master’s student — I recorded a podcast episode about my research on performative typography (that departs from / is informed by the body).

The episode was recorded for Radiopunt, a platform founded as a master’s project within graphic design. Radiopunt functions as an experimental radio platform that creates space for creative exchange, live broadcasting, and audio-based experimentation, bringing together graphic designers, artists, DJs, and other creative practitioners.

You can find the link to the radio program here: http://radio.declerckvanmalder.be

(Tip: you can start listening from 6:30, as the introduction consists of a song.)

Letters from Letters 💌

Time for a new update: At this stage of the research, I work through a personification of typography. Letters are approached not as abstract signs, but as carriers of personality. Typography thus becomes bodily and physical: first shaped through the body in the workshop context, and later further embodied through the narratives attached to each letter.

Each letter is given a voice through an associative writing process. Starting from the visual and material form of the letter, I write a text that functions as a letter addressed to the reader. The narrative does not exist separately from the typographic form, but emerges from it. These texts are not illustrative additions; they are a method for articulating what the letter embodies.

This approach resonates with Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, in which meaning is understood as something carried rather than linearly produced. Similarly, the letters in this project operate as containers of bodily, subjective, and associative knowledge. Typography is researched here as an embodied practice—one in which meaning is not merely communicated, but physically and narratively held.