Izzy Snyder, Owen Rohm

We designed a Truchet tile inspired hexagonal font using only straight lines and arcs centered on the edges and vertices of a hexagon. The patterns on the tiles merge into continuous shapes because of their matching dark-light-dark edges. The tall piece reads “I cannot be free as long as you are not free” in both vertical directions, using the interconnecting shapes of the letters to underscore the message. The cube shaped piece uses each visible face for a stanza of a poem. The length of each line follows the sequence of triangle numbers. Since the text exists on multiple axes, it is unclear where it starts, and invites the phrases to be read cyclically. They read “I am one tiny piece”, “I am one vast space”, and “I am not here alone”.