London based designer
About
cusinbercheoctave@gmail.com
+33769327415
1-Royal College of Art
2-A.Association
2-Central Saint Martins
4-Ateliers de Sèvres
1-2024-2025
2-04/2025
3-2021-2024
4-2019-2020
PRESS & TALKS
2-Talk at Type & Faces
3-Seize Magazine issue n°1
4-Unknown Quantities Issue n°11
Seoul
2-02/2025
London
3-05/2024
London
4-01/2024
London
WORK
2-Dry stone walling for the Ripple, Ripple, Rippling exhibition at the Architectural Association
3-Dry stone walling freelance
01/2025
2-09/2024
London
3- 2018-now
EXHIBITION
01/2025
CLIENTS
-Sundial System (wip)
-Genius Luci type system
-Ad Vitam
-AA visiting school
-S,T,T exhibition
-R,R,R exhibition
-Dordogne
-Cantal
Limestone, 30x50, hand carved
Initially inspired by historical tombstone lettering, I’ve designed and applied AD VITAM, a sans serif typeface designed to be carved in stone and withstand the tests of time.
Wondering why such a long standing practice, lettering etched in stone as a means of conveying information through the centuries, hasn’t evolved in keeping with contemporary design, I went about attempting to design and put to use a typeface for stone.
I’ve developed a typeface in-line with typographic icons we know and love today, ensuring the preservation of rooted heritage and traditional practice: carrying forward the historical typographic forms and well-established craftsmanship from an art form chiseled in history books worldwide. My intention being to create a typeface that embodies the best of contemporary design, creating a typographic-architectural archive for the future.
Hand carving the typeface’s specimen in Portland limestone contextualised my typeface in a tactile format, showcasing its three dimensional characteristics.
The photographed interactions with light showcase the complexities and forms of the specimen and shift depending on where it is viewed from.
Typeface specimen
Hand carved specimen