Anomalie by
John Weber
This website visualises my stroll trough an abandoned uranium mine near Baden-Baden. The mine was a test site for uranium mining in the 1970s and was closed down in 1986. Although the site was cleared of radioactive material, there is still some to be found. What I did was to measure the radioactivity of the stones in the area and to make 3D scans of the stones with the highest radioactivity. My typeface Anomaly acts as an interface to make the radiation visible to the user of the website.
Since the first personal computer came into this world in the 1980s, there have already been three generations of the World Wide Web. Web standards have continuously evolved, and graphical user interfaces surround us everywhere on various devices. Most human computer interactions and the resulting interfaces are not designed with a cultural mission in mind, but defined by the five largest, most dominant, and most prestigious companies in the information technology industry. By studying visual and structural constraints that we are facing through predefined interaction surfaces, and the standards, norms, influences and styles that have been established, each student designed a typeface and its habitat on this website.
Participating students
Niklas Weisenbach ↘ HMT John Weber ↘ Anomalie Juhee Han ↘ White Forest Michele Sablone ↘ Hypersonic Emre Kızıldelioğlu ↘ Sync Moritz Schneider ↘ What Do You Recognize? Joel Luca Sequeira Ferreira ↘ Modern Balance Sophie Eckhardt ↘ Four Tones Saara Kuum ↘ Mildewy Tizian Repp ↘ Wetlands Felix Harr ↘ ReditusThis website was programmed by Simon Knebl.
The Habitat of a Typeface Today was a seminar at the Communication Department of Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in the summer semester of 2022 supervised by Katharina Köhler.
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