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Photo by: Amber Gregory

The primary design concept for Antithesis revolves around the number three, and the resulting bidirectional aesthetic tension. Representing the tension between three unequal poles (imagine a triangle), and equal distribution of forces (think of the game Rock Paper Scissors) his typeface features only three classic styles: Regular, Italic and Bold – a “less is more” attitude as far as family size is concerned.

As part of the Antithesis project, Yanone presented his crowdfunded film which borrows the same concepts of his new font family – the three phases of philosophical dialect (thesis, antithesis and synthesis) and the three phases of the creation of the universe (creation, duration and dissolution). A 10-minute art film with stunning visuals and abstract dance featuring Johanna Roggan. The teaser trailer for the film can be seen below:

Antithesis – Trailer from Yanone on Vimeo.

Yanone’s presentation included a deep dive into his inspirations which include the trance scene, interpolation theory, the big bang, the state of limbo and more. Concepts that are far too complex to condense into a short blog post. I encourage you to watch the video documentation of the talk and visit Yanon’s website to learn more.

Watch the video of the talk (for attendees only)

Text — By Tara — @musingt

Yanone

Yanone, born in 1982 in Dresden, East Germany, is a young graphic and type designer, multimedia artist, disc jockey and sound system operator currently residing in a commune just outside of Weimar in the heart of Germany. After spending nine years of his childhood and early youth in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, due to a his fathers' professorship at the capital’s university he returned to unified Germany to finish his secondary education. He commenced studies of Information Technology at the Bauhaus-University in Weimar in 2002 and switched to Visual Communications two years later. His seven university years also brought him to the design and branding office SYNTAX in Amman, Jordan and to FontShop International in Berlin. There he learned the technical skills necessary to produce high quality typefaces which cemented his ongoing development as a type designer and technician. He completed his studies in Weimar in 2009 with a rather extensive type design project, a Latin/Arabic typeface for Jordan’s capital Amman. In 2011 Yanone completed the Type & Media type design masters degree at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Den Haag where he tried to improve his calligraphy and type design skills. He is working freelance ever since. (Photo: Daniel Scholz)