I am a graphic designer based in Vienna. "Grafisches Labor Andreas Scheiger" is my personal graphic showcase but I also work on assignment. My work focuses on experimental typography, letter sculpturing and vintage information rendering. The projects shown on this site basically mirror my fascination of the arts and craft of etching, engraving and letter design.
The ongoing project series "Evolution of Type" is inspired by "The Alphabet and Elements of Lettering" (1918) by Frederic William Goudy, one of the most famous type designers:
"Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous. Letters, like men, have now an ancestry, and the ancestry of words, as of men, is often a very noble possession, making them capable of great things. indeed, it has been said that the invention of writing is more important than all the victories ever won or constitutions devised by man. The history of writing is, in a way, the history of the human race, since in it are bound up, severally and together, the development of thought, of expression, of art, of intercommunication, and of mechanical invention.(...) A letter should possess an esthetic quality that is organic, an essential of the form itself and not the result of mere additions to its fundamental form nor to meaningless variations of it."
Following this fascinating excerpt I see letters full of life. In this context, letters are organisms and typefaces are the species, all classified similar to biological taxonomy. Each letter displays the anatomical features and evolutionary characteristics shared by so many living creatures.
