Belaya Utochka. Creative courses in Russian for children from all over the world

This year TDW had a truly magical atmosphere thanks to the workshop theme “Beauty and the Beast”, where the students had to focus on the opposites and their attraction. Each of them was randomly assigned a fairy tale to use as inspiration for a variable type concept to reflect the protagonist and antagonist of the story through the contrast between construction and deconstruction.

The Duck and its plastics was based on two criteria:
a) The physical qualities of a duck (soft, light, aerodynamic); b) The personality traits and emotions the main character evokes (sweet, kind, beautiful, noble).

As a result: the constructions based on Italian cursive, wide proportions, wide inclination angles, shorter descenders and ascenders, bold style, an abundance of round elements. At times you get surprised by the unlikely strokes in k and z.

The witch was constructed based on the same principle. The result was a serif typeface with large, sharp serifs and slightly narrow proportions.