Language, digital, letterpress…these are just a few of the words that catch my attention, so it’s not surprising that Graphic Arts student Patrycja Zywert‘s use of all three immediately piqued my interest. Her “In Other Words” project explores the effects of textspeak on human language by combining traditional and digital printing methods, resulting in a typographically rich booklet of posters.

By leaving a blank space in the shape of textspeak words we want to highlight that when we take them out of the language, there are plenty of more interesting and suitable words and phrases left around.

The posters are silk-screen printed and letter pressed to show the beauty of pure and ‘analogue’ language (as opposed to digital). Textspeak abbreviations are kept in digital/pixel style font and all the words around are made of wood type fonts and therefore look more traditional. Our lives are becoming digital yet traditional ways seem to always work well and appear more human.”

For more of Patrycja’s work, check out her portfolio and blog.

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