JOSHUA LARKE
GRAPHIC DESIGN


For this project I created a typeface inspired by brutalist architecture which would be used across an architectural magazine called 'The Grid'. The Grid is an editorial project built around a custom display serif typeface designed for an architecture magazine of the same name. The typeface takes its proportions from the structural logic of brutalist buildings, being wide, heavy, with high contrast strokes. The magazine layout was designed to give the type room to perform at scale.

The typeface I created for this project is a display typeface intended for use as titles or headings across the magazine. The letterforms themselves are intended to function almost like buildings and can connect to create a coherent structure. The main inspiration for this typeface was Brutalist Architecture around London, with the architecture of the London Southbank as well as the Barbican Centre being my main inspiration.