While its spacing, proportions and apertures are geared towards headlines, Karelia’s details take cues from the opposite end of the spectrum: type designed for the smallest sizes. Karelia elevates these structural elements to an aesthetic role. Dislocated corners carve trapezoid ink traps, echoed by the squared-off counters. The resulting look is conventional in small sizes but expressive when set large.
The name Karelia – a modern Russian province and former Finnish territory – hints at the marriage of cultures the design embodies: An engineered Western-European Neo-Grotesk with an angular appearance reminiscent of Soviet modernist design.
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Multimodality: A social semiotic approach to contemporary communication
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B-sides / Outtakes
The USSR Academy of Sciences sends a group of special forces to the Republic of Karelia to investigate the circumstances of the observation of the rare anomalous phenomenon on September 20th, 1977.
Kummakivi Megalith
The Petrozavodsk Phenomenon
Welcome .ufo people
Mystisk Tape
It is not that what is past casts its light on what is present, or what is present its light on what is past; rather, an image is that wherein what has been comes together in a flash with the now to form a constellation. In other words: image is dialectics at a standstill. For while the relation of the present to the past is purely temporal, the relation of what-has-been to the now is dialectical: not temporal in nature but figural [bildlich]. Only dialectical images are genuinely historical …
Cosmodrome
