SERIES 1.07 - THE NINE - Plaphu Art Print
A3 PROJEKT SERIES 1.07 Art Print - PLAPHU - 2017
Limited Edition of 50 prints
Spanning 35 years, 9 typefaces combined with the 9-colour gamut of 3 Projekt.
By isolating a single letter from each, the focus is on the sculptural quality inherent in the making of a letterform.
The phuture, as the 90s imagined it.
Planet Phuture's logo and logotype, designed in 2017, gave me my starting point: the label was founded by Marc Acardipane, a pioneer of hardcore techno and gabber. From the logotype, I developed a full alphabet, Pla Phu, a reduction of the label's name. Its forms are round-edged and industrial, each letter fragmented by cut-out sections. Dark, gritty cyberpunk, drawn from 90s rave culture and classic science fiction. Like panels pulled from the hull of an interstellar craft.
A3+ is digitally printed on 265 gsm Pro Photo Gloss paper - 32.9cm x 48.3cm
A4 is digitally printed on 230 gsm archival gloss paper - 21cm x 29.7cm