Adelle Mono poster

As César explains, the Adelle Mono poster was not commissioned by TypeTogether. “I made it and then showed it to José. I love monospace fonts. They take me back to my childhood. Every Friday evening, I would go with my mom to pick up my father from work. This was in the 70s, so while waiting for him at his office, I would sit with a typewriter and play with it. On the other hand I am very attracted to overlying letters in the four primary printing colors (CMYK). Some key examples are the work of Karel Martens, Piet Zwart and Bruno Monguzzi, among others. The day I designed that poster, I had a conversation with a colleague on the role of design today. And we agreed that what we learned had to be rethought, still providing solutions to problems but to completely different problems. So, I thought a monospace font would work well with anagrams (unexpected results). And an anagram is a clear example of what rethinking a problem involves as an exercise.”