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the arcade as a typeface
Typography exploration for an AI-driven entertainment brand. Inspired by micrographics: that dense, precise language born in post-WWII manufacturing. Functional by necessity, poetic by nature.
The manufacturer's signature. Conceived as a poster, it ended up in the investor pitch deck. Because a brand doesn't stop being itself when the data gets serious.
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