Unknown Letters
(2022)
Peter Saville’s iconic cover for the band Joy Division’s album “Unknown Pleasures” is a source of endless inspirations for remixes. Unknown Letters takes the original’s stacked plot of radio waves from a pulsar and creates line based typography for pencil plotters. The tool, written in Processing’s p5js, translates letters into horizontal bezier curves and the plotter’s pencils are drawing them on postcards. A set of sliders enables a lot of variations in font size, line height, depth, blur and noise.
The experiment was published in Slanted Magazine - Experimental Type / 2 in 2022/2023.
