Behaving Kinetic Typography

Kinetic Typeface explores the expansion of communication through the most basic element of typography; the letterform. It looks into the formal qualities of the Latin and Arabic letters and questions how their possible change over time may bear or expand meaning, and how the interaction between a written word and the motion of its letterforms influences the viewers’ reading and interpretation. The investigation is both a formal and a conceptual experimentation of and with letterforms through different manual processes over time. These experiments have resulted in photo-based kinetic typefaces that can be used in digital mediums or online platforms. The application of action on both sets of alphabets (English and Arabic) represents a new direction in Mobius’ continued practice and research into bridging the two languages, formally and conceptually.

Melting English Alphabets

Melting Arabic Alphabets

Shrinking English Alphabets

Shrinking Arabic Alphabets

Shaking English Alphabets

Dispersing English Alphabets