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Kelsey Elder

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Fonts   Gravity Racer
  Labore
  Meager

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Tools    Glyphs Scripts  Letter.Matter

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Projects   Rare Books & Ancestral Machines  Coterie Baby   A2Z: Learning through LEGO®   Emmett Till Memory Project  Melting Metal   Second Shift Autowerks   Dead Bird Letters   Greeting Cards   Ameri-Candied Dreams

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Teaching   Teaching-Type.com   Design Incubation:
    Design Educator Award  ATYPI Brisbane:
    Typographic Gravity Racers   TypeCon Portland: 
    Teaching Type As The Final Frontier 

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A2Z: Learning through LEGO® and Letterforms

One of 36 international designers invited by Pedro Neves to participate in a collaborative research project exploring modular systems as accessible entry points for typography education. My two-color letterform reimagines the technical logic of nineteenth-century wood type through LEGO® bricks.

Inspired by the streamer types of William H. Page — router-cut letterforms known for their flared terminals and layered color printing — my submission replaces the router’s mechanical constraints with a small set of modular LEGO shapes. These components are used to carve positive and negative space, producing a form grounded in historical production methods while translated through contemporary, pedagogical materials.

The work was exhibited at the Design Museum of Chicago and accompanied by a limited-edition letterpress publication presented at LEGO. The publication was produced by Amira Hegazy with assistance from Shannon K. Morrissey.

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