After we first noticed Mario Carpe’s print collection, You Are My Sort, we cherished it, even when we couldn’t fairly classify it. In three volumes, You Are My Sort is experimental typography, daring poster composition, and an exuberant coloration lab. It’s a permanent reminder of the ability of phrases and visuals, particularly when they’re one and the identical.
The brainchild of Mario Carpe, a Spain-based graphic designer, You Are My Sort, explores the visible nature of phrases. When Carpe stepped away from his common illustrative work to experiment with typography, he instantly discovered an unbelievable build-up of inventive vitality, sufficient to supply the physique discovered within the three volumes, with presumably extra to come back. Utilizing a comparatively simple course of, Carpe began with tough sketches, which he pulled into Illustrator to govern and take a look at layouts. The designer used many acquainted phrases and quotes however wished to transcend the phrases’ recognized that means to embody the phrases and phrases expressively.
Carpe’s compositions talk via his experimentation with kind, however every quantity has a thematic aspect. You Are My Sort Vol. 1 is impressed by our social and dealing lives. The second quantity explores numerous themes, from love and fervour to self and societal commentary. In quantity 3, Carpe delves into humorous introspection and private progress, with slightly social critique on the facet.
Every work throughout the collection presents letters as greater than symbols; they’re vessels of emotion, that means, and thought.
Mario Carpe
Individually, the compositions categorical that means, emote, encourage, discover, and protest. When seen as an entire, the compilation is visible sweet, a stunning visible array. You Are My Sort is a studio-ready flip e-book of coloration and typographic inspiration.
Photographs © Mario Carpe.
