Teerasak Sakon

ผศ.ดร.ธีรศักดิ์ สะกล — Thammasat University, Lampang

Work — Type — 2023

OA-Leroy 3D — Dimensional Display Type

OA-Leroy 3D — ตัวพิมพ์แสดงผลสามมิติ

A dimensional display cut of the Leroy lettering system — Thai and Latin — drawn for exhibition and title use where the letterform has to hold at poster scale.

Client
Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Thammasat University
Role
Type designer
Year
2023
OA-Leroy 3D — Dimensional Display Type

Depth as drawing, not effect

A three-dimensional display type fails the moment the depth is applied as a filter. The extrusion has to be drawn: the edges have to be decided where they meet the face, and the Thai marks have to be given room to sit above a letter that is now physically thicker.

OA-Leroy 3D was drawn for exhibition titling, where the letterform is read at two metres and its construction is fully visible.

Formstorming

The accompanying study, Formstorming Z 100 Repeat, holds one letterform and one constraint and runs a hundred variations through it. It is a teaching piece as much as a design one — the point is that the constraint, not the invention, is what produces range.

Thai character set with the drawing grid retained.
Thai character set with the drawing grid retained.
Latin alphabet — the extrusion treated as a drawn edge rather than an effect.
Latin alphabet — the extrusion treated as a drawn edge rather than an effect.
The related Architecture specimen, Thai and Latin in one setting.
The related Architecture specimen, Thai and Latin in one setting.
Formstorming Z 100 Repeat — a hundred variations of a single letterform, drawn as a study in constraint.
Formstorming Z 100 Repeat — a hundred variations of a single letterform, drawn as a study in constraint.