Steve Jackaman. In the early 1980’s, Steve worked at Typographic House in Boston, Massachusetts. At the time, ‘Typo’ House, as it was affectionately known, was the largest type house in New England.
This font was designed and produced during his tenure. The design was so popular that it became available commercially through VGC, and was known as TH Alphabet Soup. Completely redrawn and remastered, Alphabet Soup Pro contains all the high-end features expected in a quality OpenType Pro font.
Alien Alphabet is inspired by the ideas of change, transformation, creative deconstruction and mutual penetration of various cultures, languages, and opposing cognitive systems, which seem to be prevalent in our ‘globalized’ civilization.
It appears as various visual constructs -- archetypal symbolism, pieces of the world alphabets, socio-cultural icons, mathematical formulae, etc., -- broke down into pieces and were reassembled in a way that carried traces of previous meanings.
However, this contradictory mutation invokes enigmatic meanings and emotions begging for further definition and interpretation. More…
The fact that a message cannot be understood does not really change its emotional appeal. Moreover, the less message can be deciphered, the more seems to be the appeal -- for it triggers our imagination.
