Self-initiated project

TEKAN / Form Under Pressure

I explored pressure as a typographic condition. TEKAN places soft, heavy letterforms beside a sharp italic serif, moving between crowded compositions and open space. The name is Indonesian; the specimen and campaign language are English.

Disciplines: TypographyEditorial designArt direction
Year: 2026

TEKAN / Form Under Pressure: Push / Pull hero poster — Push / Pull hero poster

The challenge

The experiment needed expressive forms without sacrificing recognizable words. I wanted the spaces within and between the letters to carry as much character as the strokes.

The idea

Compression and release. Bulging edges suggest a form being pressed into place; the italic cuts through it with a contrasting direction and weight. Changes in width, scale and spacing make the same vocabulary behave differently.

TEKAN / Form Under Pressure: Under Pressure poster — Under Pressure poster

TEKAN / Form Under Pressure: A–Z letterform specimen — A–Z letterform specimen

TEKAN / Form Under Pressure: Editorial type study — Editorial type study

TEKAN / Form Under Pressure: Tactile print visualization — Tactile print visualization

TEKAN / Form Under Pressure: Large-scale type installation concept — Large-scale type installation concept

TEKAN / Form Under Pressure: Three width studies — Three width studies

TEKAN / Form Under Pressure: Let Go poster — Let Go poster