What happens when you take the letters out of typography and leave only their parts?
For 16 years, creations steadily poured in from around the world. More than 20,000 remarkably imaginative, intricate and diverse compositions emerged, revealing an unexpected fascination with the expressive possibilities of typography. People who might never have given letterforms a second thought discovered their anatomy through play, transforming familiar shapes into portraits, creatures, abstract compositions and entirely new visual languages.
Featured in PRINT magazine, Font: Classic Typefaces for Contemporary Graphic Design by RotoVision, and numerous international design publications, Type Is Art also found its way into classrooms, galleries and exhibitions.
When Adobe Flash was discontinued in 2020, the website went dark, but the artwork and its extraordinary archive survived.
Now, Silo Design and JR Visuals are working to revive Type Is Art, preserving the original experience while creating a new, accessible platform for future generations to explore, learn and play. The next chapter will bring the archive back into public view, introduce new typefaces and expand the project into education, exhibitions and print.
The site went dark. The idea didn't.
