6. Monsterlijke Samenstellingen
BA Graduation Project - Type Design - Speculative Design - Writing System - Graphic Design - Social Design -
Monstrous Compositions is a research-based exploration into Dutch orthography and the broad mutations it feeds. The project serves as a critical questioning of linguistic purity through the practical development of speculative future writing forms.
Within the Dutch language, it seems correctness is still valued over understandable fluidity. But when hearing and seeing this medley of characters, sounds, and their duplicates, one question arises:
What happens to the language when we further entangle these monstrous outcomes of the spelling system through the practice of simplification?
Perhaps an intentional degradation of written language will position it closer to its spoken counterpart.
In ‘Monsterlijke Samenstellingen’, I challenge
the idea of a pure, correct form of language.
Through simplification and physical entanglement of shape grounded
in sound, I question current linguistic systems, with the underlying question of what they will look like in the future?
Postcards - riso
Business cards - riso
Monsterlijke Samenstellingen is being exhibited during Dutch Design Week 2025. Come see,at De Fabriek from
18-26th of October.