✎ Kelsey Elder

_{type + tech + teaching}

is a typographer and educator based in Pittsburgh, PA. When he’s not teaching at Carnegie Mellon University, crafting letters, and/or tinkering on a press, you’ll most likely find him hanging out with his cats.

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① Recent Projects

Variable

teaching

Gravity Racers

typeface + tool

Labore VT

typeface

Emmett Till Memory Project

design advisor

Coterie Baby

logotype + monogram

Melting Metal

publication

Second Shift Autowerks

identity

Meager

typeface

Letter Matters

programming

Dead Bird Letters

transcription + setting

Cards for Loved Ones

lettering + illustration

Ameri-Candied Dreams

supergraphics

Letter Matters

programming

An ongoing series of programmed playgrounds for letterforms and language. They are made using P5.js and Processing. The iterative series investigates how computation can create generative combinatorics of language and how interaction can facilitate unexpected and non-linear reading experiences.

Links to live sketches are provided below.

↑ Link for an automated live sketch : here. And an alternative interactive version : here.

← Link for an interactive live sketch : here.

↑ Link for an interactive sketch : here.

← Link for an automated live sketch : here.

↑ Link for an interactive live sketch : here.
And an automated version : here.

↑ Link for an interactive live sketch : here.

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