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DinamoC-O-N-N-E-C-T: Dinamo and BNAG Studio unite to create a modular dot typeface and furniture system
We (Dinamo) connected with our friends at BNAG Studio to create a digital dot font and accompanying set of metal brackets, which let users create letter shapes with screws.
Let me explain: Our ABC C-o-n-n-e-c-t-o-r-s are easy-to-use brackets that help DIY builders join bits of wood together for quick, spontaneous furniture making. Inside their dot matrix grids, builders can arrange screws into letter shapes or other patterns. Unlike traditional furniture, which conceals nails, screws, and other binding techniques, these connectors celebrate – rather than disguise — how an object is constructed.
ABC C-o-n-n-e-c-t is our dot font inspired by the metal brackets’ own grid system, available in five screw head styles as well as Mono and Italic cuts.
The project is a many-wooden-legged-monster, with its accompanying web tool, Dinamo Editions zine, and wood workshop. Head over to Dinamo for further documentation — including typeface details, an essay by our editor Madeleine Morley on the origins of the project, some website and zine commentary, plus photos by Sascia Reibel of our launch at HKW Berlin.
THE TYPEFACE
ABC C-o-n-n-e-c-t is a digital dot font based on the ABC C-o-n-n-e-c-t-o-r grid. It contains monospaced and proportional styles, all with corresponding Italics, making it (probably) the world’s first Italic dot font (but don’t drill us on that one).
ABC C-o-n-n-e-c-t comes in five common screw head styles, including Flat, Torx, Hex, Nail, and Philips.Designed by Fabian Harb with Louis Brousseaud and Frédéric Jaman.
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