NOISE/STRINGS
author: Slavko Milenković

I remember the summer 2001 when I enjoyed creating an electronic piece Noise/Strings. I planned to present unpretentiously my already finished fonts (N&S) at many coloured compositions of square format. Somehow that playing prevailed and thus in some frames the letterforms are hardly found. Compositions are diversifiedand for me the unifying factor is the domination of pictorial in them which gave them individual artefacts life (I concluded humbly).

The work was packed on computer as stream of sequences and was exhibited at October's Salon in autumn 2001. It won the Museum of Applied Art Prize and now makes part of Museum's Collection.

Noise (1999)
This typeface was not complicated to execute. I was writing and erasing with mouse in “some” Photoshop, simplified the forms always with the same filter, made quick choices and did minimal interventions in Fontographer. I got distorted letterforms with contrast among thin and thick strokes and the association with “noise in fashion” was imposed, so the name came by itself.

Strings (1999)
I made sketches for the letters by the pointed quill in a sketchbook and when there were a lot of this stringlike forms in it I added numerals. The impression is opposite to Noise at the first sight, although, in some strange way, these sets harmonize well together.

Frames:
Noise/Strings (compositions)
Noise
Strings