Utanmyra typeface
2014
Self initiated
Type design, print
Royal College of Art, London
Student, Type Designer
 
Utanmyra is a typeface inspired by blurry images taken at Carl Larsson Gården in Sweden, of an old Grotesk font used as DNA when drawing the typeface. It was developed over two weeks during Easter 2014. I was searching for normality and everyday feel in the typeface, based on a text sample found at Carl Larsson Gården. It was an exercise involving listening to lots of Swedish modal jazz (Utanmyra derives from Jan Johansson's Visa från Utanmyra). Utanmyra was first featured in newsprint at SHOW RCA 2014 as part of a publication accompanying self-initiated sound research platform 'Sound as Terror'