Varia

Influ­enced by the rise of the Meta­verse, Varia is a metaphor for the ear­ly fail­ure and absur­di­ty of this tech­nol­o­gy, as well as a research project on typo­graph­ic shapes. Inspired by the opti­mi­sa­tion sys­tem of geom­e­try in 3D – Lev­el Of Detail (LOD) – Varia evolves along an axis of the same name, and is com­posed of three styles: 0, 4 and 8. While Lev­el 0 seems clos­er to tra­di­tion­al typog­ra­phy, it is a geo­met­ri­cal and ​“smoothed” ver­sion of the pre­vi­ous cuts, which already attempt to syn­the­size let­ters down to their most rudi­men­ta­ry forms. From the rigid­i­ty of shapes, the exis­ten­tial con­straints that the research pro­vides illus­trate the ret­ro­grade and dystopi­an vision of the Meta­verse, while at the same time offer­ing a reas­sur­ing reflec­tion of the future geo­met­ric tran­si­tion of our bodies.