tapetypo

I am an Austrian tape artist combining typography and pixel-based aesthetics.

My typography is shaped by the material of adhesive tape itself. Its qualities, edges, tension and limitation determine letters, alphabets as well as whole fonts that range from clearly readable to coded and even cryptic forms.

I honor tape as an everyday, functional object that can become image, language or surface.

Experimenting with pixel characters and styles is a fascination rooted in the visual worlds of the computer games I grew up with.

My works are often perceived as fresh and wild visual statements with a sense of discovery for the audience. Many people are drawn by the idea that something as ordinary as tape can produce playful, precise images, typographic systems and bold compositions.

My roots lie in writing graffiti and I have been engaged in this practice since 1997. My interest in tape as a material emerges from my choreographic work where I have been shaping the dance company Hungry Sharks as an artistic director since 2011 and where duct tape became a strong visual yet accessible medium for creating stage environments. From this intersection of movement and material I have developed a distinct artistic language and have realized tape works across Austria and Hungary and the Netherlands and Switzerland.