Turning Bree into sculpture

Artist Anton Hart combines design and language in the form of typographic totems. His go-to type family? Veronika Burian and José Scaglione’s Bree.

For his series ‘Standing Songs,’ Hart worked with the poet Jenny Bornholdt to combine design with language in the form of totems. Hart, who previously worked as a graphic designer, sets Bornholdt’s words vertically in Bree, then spins them around an axis to create a three-dimensional totem, but one where he reveals the text as a cutaway.

“The thing I love about them is that people don’t know what they’re looking at,” Hart says. “The type is a section and the object that is a reveal. And I try not to reveal it too much.”

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