‘My father’s typewriter always fascinated me. I’d hit a button and the letter ‘a’ appeared. But that ‘a’ might as well have been a bird or another image,’ says graphic designer Karel Martens.
The letter is a code, a key to convey information. What would your name look like in artworks rather than letters? What pattern does your message of protest have? The Letterlab was designed by Koehorst in ‘t Veld, inspired by the work of Karel Martens.