TOP’ I AM

TOP’ I AM
Object Typography Exploration
This work began as an experiment with the question:
Is it possible to assemble typography not from letters, but from the relationships between objects?
The starting idea was simple — each letter should exist as an independent scene and remain readable as a form.
Project rules:
— letters are not drawn directly;
— the object must retain its own logic;
— the form appears as a trace of action, not as a pre-constructed sign.
Examples:
T — a person on a bicycle forms the vertical and the crossbar;
O — a lifebuoy becomes a spatial pause;
P — the action of a fisherman forms the outline;
I — presence instead of construction;
A — the body of an animal creates the shape;
M — the connection between characters becomes the structure of the letter.
During the work, a shift occurred.
Initially, the goal was to create decorative typography.
Later, the focus shifted to another question:
what happens if part of the work is left for the viewer to recognize?
From this came: — different levels of letter readability;
— traces of construction;
— variable density of details;
— local anomalies of materials (glass as an event, not as a style);
— preservation of negative space.
The final idea of the project:
not to illustrate text,
but to build a system where the viewer first sees the world, then discovers the letters, and only after that assembles meaning.
Result:
not object lettering and not illustration,
but an experiment at the intersection of typography × worldbuilding × narrative composition.