Crux95
Brett Wickens
1995
DIMENSIONS
23 3/8 x 16 1/2 in. (59.4 x 41.9 cm)
OBJECT NUMBER
PH.7573
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
United Kingdom
CREDIT LINE
Poster House Permanent Collection
KEYWORDS
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Also created for issue 14 of FUSE (Cyber), Crux95 distorts standard letterforms through sets of binary options that shift or remove portions of a glyph. The central text, “without you I’m zero,” playfully references the series of 1s and 0s that comprise binary code. Brett Wickens was inspired by Alan Bartram’s article “Reading by Machine” in the June 1962 issue of Typographica. In it, Bartram explores how degraded a font can become before a machine is no longer able to recognize it.
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