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Post to Future

Motion/Video Design
2024
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Post to the Future is a graphic motion design project that analyzes the Foundry Gridnik font, designed by Dutch designer Wim Crouwel in 1974, deconstructing the time collision, information flow, technological progress, and utopian ideals embedded in its design. It showcases how the font constructs a multidimensional design language across the past, present, and future. The project, through a three-part narrative, reflects on how the font defines or symbolizes our visual language and envisions its symbiotic relationship with information flow in the context of emerging technologies.《Post to the Future》是一个图形动效项目，分析1974年荷兰设计师Wim Crouwel设计的字体：Foundry Gridnik，解构其设计所蕴含的时间碰撞、信息流动、技术进步与乌托邦理想。展示它如何在过去、现在与未来之间构建多维度的设计语言。项目通过三部分时间叙事，思考字体如何定义或象征我们的视觉语言，并展望字体在新时代技术中与信息流动的共生可能性。









The design of the Gridnik font is based on 45-degree geometric cuts, a grid structure, and pixelization, reflecting the past's idealized vision of the future. With its low readability and pixelated effect, the font was designed with machines in mind rather than human readability, showcasing the designer's vision of a future driven by technology and intelligence. In an era of technological limitations, this font became a pioneering design for information transmission, initially used in Dutch postal stamps.

However, when we look back at this font, it not only represents the "future of the past" (the past's vision of the future world), but has also become the "past of the present" (a design that is now seen as outdated compared to modern or future designs), prompting reflection on how this font once defined or symbolized our visual language in an era of information overload.

This project narrates through three time dimensions—past (the birth of the Gridnik font), present (the transformation in the digital age), and future (the fusion of fonts with future technologies)—to explore how to rethink the role of fonts in the context of technological evolution and information flow. The collision of time not only examines the past and future but also reflects how design can open new possibilities in an ever-changing context.

Post to the Future is not only a reflection on the history of the font but also a prospect of future design potential, exploring how fonts can adapt to new era technologies and co-exist with the intangible flow of information and multidimensional visual languages.Gridnik字体的设计以45度几何切割、网格结构和像素化为基础，体现了过去对未来的理想构想。其较低的可读性与像素化效果，设计优先考虑的是机器而非人类阅读，展现了设计师对未来科技与智能化的设想。在技术受限的时代，这款字体作为荷兰邮票的视觉设计之一，成为了信息传递的开创性设计。

然而，当我们回望这款字体时，它不仅仅体现了“过去的未来”（过去对未来世界的畅想），也成为了“现在的过去”（一个落后于现代或未来的设计），让我们反思，在信息过载的时代，这款字体曾如何定义或象征我们的视觉语言。

本项目通过三个时间维度——过去（Gridnik字体的诞生）、现在（数字时代的变革）、未来（字体与未来技术的融合）——进行叙事，探讨如何在技术演变与信息流动的背景下重新构思字体的角色。时间的碰撞不仅是对过去与现在的审视，也思考了设计未来如何在这个不断变化的背景中开辟新的可能性。

《Post to the Future》不仅是对字体历史的反思，也是对未来设计潜力的展望，探索字体如何在新时代技术中适应，如何与信息的无形流动和多维度的视觉语言共生。





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Ivan Liu

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