What does it mean LAZY TYPES?

This expression was coined several years ago (sometime between 2002 and 2016) by Maria Rosaria Digregorio, a friend, fellow designer and lecturer.

LAZY TYPES are a particular category of projects that have to do with the world of typography.

They often consist of parts [modules] or compounds on a grid [which may or may not be orthogonal]. Their appearance is defined by a certain brutality - not deprived of elegance.

<aside> ⚠️ In this category we therefore also consider a number of projects - not necessarily typefaces - that have to do more or less directly with the world of typography:

→ some work to produce 'sense effects', manipulations of pre-existing characters, based on rules and variables;

→ some work on the design of letters, and more generally on systems;

→ some work on preparatory tools to optimise

workflow and results.

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What does it mean LAZY TYPES?

This expression was coined several years ago (sometime between 2002 and 2016) by Maria Rosaria Digregorio, a friend, fellow designer and lecturer.

They often consist of parts [modules] or compounds on a grid [which may or may not be orthogonal]. Their appearance is defined by a certain brutality - not deprived of elegance.

→ some work to produce 'sense effects', manipulations of pre-existing characters, based on rules and variables;

→ some work on the design of letters, and more generally on systems;

→ some work on preparatory tools to optimise

LAZY TYPES emerge out of a primordial soup of professional and cultural practices and theories, including:

→ situation-based learning

→ informal peer learning environments

→ research into language non-linearity

→ the development of generative and parametric design

→ the spread of open source culture

→ the idea that tools are biopolitical devices and the subsequent emergence and spread of practices of self-construction of one's own tools

→ the emergence of reverse-engineering as a learning and study methodology