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Urciuoli Sabato / Glyph.

March 28, 2008 · Words: Martin S ·

Urciuoli Sabato / Glyph.

Above: Packaging and t-shirt from the Glyph range

Woah, what is Glyph.

Turns out it’s a hypernym for the goings-on of a creative group of European graphic designers, artists, illustrators and beat programmers, who banded together to form the experimental Glyph. collective.

The group is lead by by the bold vision of type-obsessed Italian graphic designer Urciuoli Sabato, and fellow graphic designer Takakura Yuuki; but it also houses an electronica artist and a VJ, amongst others. For now though the project’s main objective concerns a line of t-shirts, based around experimental adventures in geometry-pushing and helvetica typography.

A mix between linguistics and typography, the brand doesn’t show just a t-shirt’s line aesthethically interesting, but turn the support into the real medium to vehicle a concept through. Glyph. interact and operate through all the different ways of art, connecting them all. The project is not only about fashion but extends itself to searching and supporting brand new artists, from Italy and abroad (to produce and wear them) with the forthcoming opening of a music label, tank of vanguard sounds that influence the contemporary music world.

Glyph. electrocompose t-shirt

Glyph. t-shirt

UPDATE:

Urciuoli just informed me that today Glyph. have switched up their game, and decided to go the route of a temporary brand, doing projects in three-month cycles. Some of the links above to inside the Glyph. site are no longer working, so do check out his hlvtc.net site to stay on the ball.

Unfortunately / fortunately today we got some changes about Glyph. project. We decided to make it a temporary brand so every three months circa we’ll put up a new project in Glyph. This means that this first collection won’t be sell anymore, and starting on the day we get all the new material done we’ll sell it for three months and stop. And so on for the future.

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