#type-design

Be Clearly Confusing (if that is the case)

If this generative type design direction is about obscurity rather than security, than own it. Be clear that it is confusing. Or as a colleague said eloquently, 'Be clearly confusing'. As was mentioned, even the Dadaists had clear instructions on how to create a confusing and chaotic poem.

One of 'goals' of this direction is to obfuscate the traditional structure and convention of type design or what one might normally expect from type design — traditionalism, legibility, readability, clarity, colour, and luscious curves or 'sexiness' etc. The idea is to subvert the traditional structure of typeface systems or how they are perceived through challenging O.C.R./pattern recognition, creating contextual abilities, and applying code-based scripts in real-time.

I'm approaching this as a possible tool/tactic yet there is nothing wrong with a symbolic, and experimental gesture that will hopefully continue the conversation concerning domestic surveillance and digital typography brought to light by Sang Mun's ZXX typeface (2012, RISD), along with countless others who have paved the way. (although with less of a impeding pressure that is the recent revelations concerning privacy and control). 

Funny how it things months into it, come all the way back to the first direction or theme of 'disrupting communication', whatever that meant.

I'm beginning to understand the potential for visual obfuscation (especially considering the race to quantum computing).