The Veranda of Floating Threads

The Palace of Typographic Masonry is an (imaginary) institute for the splendour and variety of visual languages. For The Veranda of Floating Threads, RNDR was invited to use the consistent visual vocabulary of the patterns, the rhythms and the variation in complexity in the interweaving of horizontal and vertical lines of 'kente' (textile of the Ashanti and Ewe people of Ghana) as point of departure for an exploration in creative coding. The test strips used in the offset printed publication have been created by this specially devised software program using the letters and words in the essay about the kente fabrics by Christel Vesters.