project overview
through speculative typography and bureaucratic aesthetics, the architecture of control examines how visual systems shape behaviour while maintaining the illusion of freedom.
project type
Critical Design Research
year
2025
focus
Typography| Visual Systems
using speculative typography and institutional visual language, the project reconstructs systems where participation appears voluntary but remains carefully controlled. borrowing from branding, bureaucracy, instruction manuals, and interface design, the work transforms reading into an experience of conditional access, compliance, and simulated choice. through layering, distortion, and restricted legibility, the project exposes how design can simultaneously perform and critique authority.
This project reframed typography for me, not as a neutral tool for communication, but as a structure capable of directing behaviour, shaping trust, and disguising power through aesthetics. By reproducing and disrupting systems of visual order, the work explores how design can expose the conditions it simultaneously participates in. The outcome exists within that contradiction: critique through compliance.
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