Satya Singh

Satya Singh is a Graphic Designer from Brighton, focussing on her interest in typography and design. The fluidity of type is what attracts her to letter design. Along with the movement of type, the hand-craft of crochet and hand-lettering is what excites her.

Exploring crafts and tactile skills was the basis of this project, combining type design with the handcraft of crochet. Each jumper shows one typeface that was made for this project, acting as a specimen for the typeface – like a specimen book.

In order, the footer images display my typefaces – “Bitter” – lowercase and numbers. “Paced” – lowercase and “Noir” – lowercase.

The specimen jumpers show the limits and restraints of type design combined with the tactility of crochet and how this affects the visibility of type. Explored through three different typefaces, they display how serifs, black-letter and a consistent point size appears in crochet. The colours display close-contrast, exploring the use and visibility of colour.

To accompany the jumpers, a type specimen book supports each typeface. This specimen book resembles that of a fabric sample book, incorporating the physical elements of the clothing with the typographic elements of the fonts. The label integrates this with the jumpers and the labels in them. The specimen book displays letters in each typeface, using the same colours as the pieces in the collection. As well as the alphabet, there are dividing sections that label the typeface and give a brief description to further link the specimen book with the garments.

Thanks to Radha Singh @radha.c.s for modelling.