Hey Porter | Communication Arts

The brainchild of Amman, Jordan–based designer Tawfiq Dawi, layout organization and style foundry Hey Porter at first began in 2017 as a day-to-day poster task. “I challenged myself to dedicate to 1,000 days with 1,000 tasks, likely to mattress at 5 a.m. for all around a few yrs right until I done every a person,” he states. “By the night time I established No. 095/1000 [the 95th poster in the series], I experienced fallen in love with building experimental letters and wordmarks. Following that, generating fonts and typefaces came by natural means to me and [formed] a huge component of my artwork exercise.” Dawi cultivates a familiarity with the avant-garde, describing his typefaces as “big, unwanted fat, thoroughly experimental and out of context.” When he works, he does not imagine he’s earning “functional or ‘successful’ typefaces,” as he states. “I appreciate the up to date cure of typography with overall inventive flexibility that breaks the classic calligraphic regulations.” This has not precluded Dawi’s work being  utilized by key consumers, this kind of as Apple Audio, the Criterion Assortment and TEDx. Among his influences, he counts Arabic calligraphy and Islamic geometric designs together with anime, comics, audio, magazines, pop culture and classic film posters, an eclectic listing of media that motivates him to explore distinct visible realms. “I believe that in experimenting and training, and I hope I do not adhere in [one] typographic comfort and ease zone for long—or any other zones,” Dawi claims. “I want to be additional and to understand a lot more.”

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