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| Olaf Nicolai’s installation for the exhibition Museotopia, Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen. Screen shot. |
Berlin-based artist Olaf Nicolai commissioned Stephan Müller in 2002 to design a typeface for the exhibition Museutopia in the Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen (Germany), which focused on the theme of Utopia. The result was 'Nikolai'; an alphabet based on a simple square, employing the principle of layering. Through combining the three available layers, the actual type is constructed.
The alphabet was used in the exhibition for the reissue of a utopian architectural essay («Glasarchitektur» by Paul Scheerbart) and to decorate a wall with a quotation from Karl Marx. 'Nicolai', comes in two different shapes: as a set of three fonts (one for each layer), and as a Shockwave application, programmed by Jürg Lehni, which allows changing the colours of each layer easily.
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| Screen shot. |
Read more about this here. Launch Shockwave application here.
In my view, even though I find this project very interesting in terms of its idea; curating; design etc; I am not sure how this alphabet is linked intellectually or conceptually with the theme of utopia.
Nikos Georgopoulos
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