A student of Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, Germany, Yusuf Algan evolved an assignment for an original type font into a typographic exploration of language. Each letter built by the alphabet of one distinct language, Algan’s typography puts a thousand minuscule spins on the classic latin alphabet structure it employs. His “World Font” includes commonly spoken languages, religious languages, and rarer dialects spoken by only several hundred thousand people. See Algan’s complete type font here.

- Maggie

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Italian design studio n9ve has fun reimagining the alphabet, creating adorably tangible representations of the words its letters so often inspire. I love the explosion of “destruction” while the old school Fréhel track warbles on happily unaware in the background. Awesome. Check out some of the video’s making over here on n9ve’s tumblr.

- Maggie

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