Jun 27, 2012
Allan D. Lopez Movable Rubik Type Spring 2012, Independent Project Wood, Rubik’s cube 2.2 in. × 2.2 in. × 2.2 in.
This Rubik’s cube serves as a handheld wooden letter press that can reassemble the anatomical structure of six historic typefaces: Blackletter, Baskerville, Poster Bodoni Futura, Helvetica, and Gotham. The letter “m” was chosen as it is the standard from which all other em widths within an alphabet are derived. The use of a Rubik’s cube serves as an analogy for the evolution and complication of typography over centuries.
