Experimental Typography_
Fence LineMilwaukee, WI
2023
Typeface Design /
Printing  Experiment
Designer: Sky Seo
Advisor: Kim Beckmann

 Creating a personal typeface, I designed several explorations. The title of typeface is ‘Fence Line’.  It tells the story of the drawn line named Border bewteen North and South Korea by the external reason during cold war period brought gaps between relationships, politic, and many different areas in our culture and familyship. The typeface, Fence Line, represents a external confliction breaking the familyship between North and South Korea.

Typeface Design

Research & Initial sketch




Fence Line font_Refined




Exploration_01 Layered poster




Exploration_02 Print Making Practice (Making own letterpress tools)
With the guide from my teacher, Kimberly Beckmann, I fabricated my own reliefs with several experimentations,
using ‘Laser cutter’, etching aluminum plate with laser cut vinyl, and Glueing Acrylics.




Exploration_02 Print Making (Making posters)




Exploration_03 Multi Media Posters (print making with Cyanotype, Digital poster)
I also created several poster digitally to deliver visual stories about my typeface.



Key Takeaway
  • Learning how to make a system to make a typeface.
  • Researching how to deliver a story with typeface.
  • Experimenting print making skills between traditional and modern methods.
  • Studying independently with my teacher, I got to learn how to make a curriculum,
    thinking “ What have we learned?”, “Where have we innovated?”, “What’s next?”

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