Sign Writing

  • Matt Van Noordt

Signwriting is a style of calligraphy I have known of for a while but just did not know the name of. It consists of stylish, yet legible aesthetics, and I wanted to learn it for a quick way to produce some readable to anyone, yet visually appealing writing. After reading a few lettering books I discovered the name for this style I have been seeing for years, and with seeing my coursemate: Vanduzzi's big, colourful posters scattered around the studio, it encouraged me to work in this manner. After a while, I felt the need to represent what I learnt in a final form, hence the posters below, which use signwriting in both a Sharpie, and graffiti marker for the copy, textures of experiments to use as visuals, and InDesign to unite everything together.

Sign Writing by Matt Van Noordt
Sign Writing by Matt Van Noordt
Sign Writing by Matt Van Noordt
Sign Writing by Matt Van Noordt

Matt Van Noordt
Graphic Design Graduate