"As someone with minimal experience with type design, I was struck by the excitement of generating letterforms simply by using pre-existing modules,"
"The system offered an ideal blend of fixed constraints and room for playful exploration. Each brick's scale and form could not be altered, but the grid's size could be individually defined,"
A designer developed a modular-letterform project inspired by an undergraduate seminar assignment to build an alphabet from modular elements. In a graduate course at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Design, students used LEGO bricks as a grid-bound system with unchangeable brick scale and form, enabling constrained yet playful exploration. Portable Provisional Press kits aided flexibility. Contributions from 36 designers or studios across six continents formed a publication titled A2Z: Learning Through LEGO® and Letterforms and an accompanying exhibition at the Design Museum of Chicago. Participants received physical LEGO sets and created final designs using up to three layered prints and five CMYK-inspired colors.
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