Letters on a computer imitate human warmth and emotion—but they remain only an imitation. Glyphlos explores how to breathe life and feeling into these characters by growing new glyphs like plants, using special characters as seeds. These characters are more than structural marks; they carry tone and emotional flow within writing, giving rise to letters with expressive qualities.

Shown here is Erik Spiekermann’s FF Meta transformed through the Glyphlos process, a method that can be applied to other typefaces to generate new typographic lifeforms.

Awarded the Grand Prix (Minister of Trade, Industry, and Energy Award) at the 31st International Communication Design Competition.