Typography / Urbanization

In Typography / Urbanization: NYC, a computer font is used to draw city blocks instead of letters. A number of the original city map’s blocks form a letter, and so, a text entered into the computer creates an urban map. Drawing is a common origin of maps and letters. A map depicts a geographical or urban situation in a specific way; a written text gives shape to the spoken word, also presented through graphic symbols. There is also a notion of representation implied in cartography and writing: as something that is put in the place of others to re-present it. Both concepts of drawing and representation are related to the idea of projection: projection of meaning, of ideas, of places.

TYPOGRAPHY / URBANIZATION: NYC 
Typography drawn from the New York City map
2007