New typeface in the works

More modular construction, I'm pretty jazzed about this one!

Type Design

Modular constructed font based off playing around with perler beads. I'm in process of making them all by hand and then designing a large format specimen poster. I will also be setting it in FontLab soon...

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PROCESS

Sixty sets... no sleep happened at all this weekend. Basing a lot of my decisions off playing with type earlier in the process helped a lot in developing a wide variety. Always need to start with the hands, makes life a lot easier than just jumping on the computer!

Voices In The Spaces

for Filter Detroit

Voices in the Spaces is a publication created in collaboration with Filter Detroit which highlights Bauhaus University of Weimar PHD student voices in the spaces they observed in Detroit. Each point of view referenced the physical spaces in Detroit in different ways being seen as a vacancy or opportunity. Seeing the city through many different windows is the main theme for this concept. I wanted this to be an experience piece which takes the reader through the same journey as the student - initially encountering Detroit as a blank city, but through interaction with the community, true beauty is revealed.

Featured in “Next City Detroit” exhibition in Hamburg, Germany. November 26-28, 2010.

Featured on Design Ignites Change

To see entire publication, please view the link below fullscreen:

Voices In The Spaces by Stefanie Horodko | Make Your Own Book

College for Creative Studies Viewbook Process

Viewbook Project Winter '11

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Viewbook Project Fall '10

Viewbook Numerals

Interestingly, our team for the Viewbook project reached out to my Type Design class to create a set of numbers to be integrated into the alumni book we are designing. So while also working on the project, I was also designing in class for it. Work really follows me around!

Homeless BBQ Mobile/Web Interface

This project was to select a non profit organization that would benefit from a smart user interface experience. Elevate Detroit is an organization comprised of young adults who have a passion and heart for the homeless in the city. The main functionalities of this system are to directly connect those involved with this ministry to each other, while also leading up to and documenting the experience, as well as making it easy to receive information and share between the user's mobile devices and Elevate's main outlet which is Facebook.

Check out Elevate Detroit

Mobile App for iPhone (connects via Facebook)

Facebook App (connects via mobile app)

Please view one of my older projects which also highlights this event here:

Compassion Bottle Project

A book series on diversity

This is a series of three small books on cultural, genetic and personal diversity. The theme was on the word ‘hybrid’ which was selected at random and then transformed into three visual directions based on a scientific article, a piece of short fiction and my own personal story. I speak on plant and cultural hybridization which eventually combine to show how diversity is positive and is embraced in community through the use of color, type, grid structure and illustration to represent the mergence of these ideas.

As a side note, the coptic binding style was the most challenging method I've encountered. I've never bound a book the same way twice and this was my first all-nighter hand stitching.