Familial Gesture
Familial Gesture—a three-generation collaboration between my dad (79), my daughter (9), and me (44), exploring expressive reinterpretations of Neue Haas Grotesk—was recognized in the Society of Typographic Arts’ highly regarded 2025 STA 100 competition as among “the finest examples of communication design and typography created around the world.”
The project is both a formal exercise and a collection of expressive artifacts that mark the experience—a celebration of each participant’s visual interpretation of the source material and the intergenerational relationships that were strengthened through the communal act of making.
The project was first exhibited as part of Typeforce 13 in February 2025—an international exhibition of typographic works held at Co-Prosperity in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood.
