With Brucker, Tankard once again consciously questions conventions — particularly the idea that a typeface requires consistency. Like watching a performer on a tightrope, or a live improvised show: there are moments where the performance almost falters, and the whole thing seems dangerously close to falling apart, but it somehow doesn’t, and that’s thrilling, and you can’t look away.| Typographica
Although invented writing systems are not an alien concept, ones for cultures that don’t actually exist are rather rare. Thankfully, that didn’t stop the cosmically inventive Jeremy Tankard from designing not one but three styles of Queezoid for the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. The Queezies are a decidedly cuddly alien race that infiltrates the hospital, leaving its mark — literally.| Typographica