DIGI.ROT
Elise Bosmans
Antwerpen, België
About
Elise Bosmans is a designer who works at the intersection of typography, generative design and interaction. Her research explores the boundaries between legibility and illegibility, how a letterform can become a system and how that system behaves, grows and fades.
Project
A letter on your screen is always the same. What if it wasn't? DIGI.ROT explores type as a living system, one that grows, decays and remembers. Letters emerge slowly, drawn by hundreds of lines that trace their forms like mold spreading across a surface. They are never printed, never fixed. They come into being, and then they dissolve. Every touch accelerates that process. The system accumulates each interaction and carries it forward: the more it is used, the further the letterforms break down. What begins as legible gradually becomes something else: still a letter, but barely. A residue of itself.
The work exists somewhere between typography and time-based art. It asks what a letter becomes when it is no longer designed to last, when its identity is not a fixed form, but a history of use.
