Goshuri — Slanted Magazine #40, Experimental Type
Nelli Kamaeva
Poster
On whether Georgian script can wear a borrowed blackletter tradition without breaking — Goshuri, familiar forms fitted with unfamiliar armour, and the strain is where the interest is.
The piece is Goshuri, which drags Georgian Mkhedruli script into blackletter territory — the letters rebuilt with the thick strokes, sharp terminals and dense vertical rhythm of Gothic type, familiar forms wearing unfamiliar armour. The experiment is plain: take a script with its own deep history and test whether a European tradition can fit it.
The main composition stacks them into a tight block, and the full alphabet runs down the side as a specimen, so you see the system, not just the showpiece.
Mostly it holds — and where it strains, that's where the interest is. The work appears in Slanted Magazine #40, Experimental Type, an issue collecting letters built on accident, system and mistake.
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The piece is Goshuri, which drags Georgian Mkhedruli script into blackletter territory — the letters rebuilt with the thick strokes, sharp terminals and dense vertical rhythm of Gothic type, familiar forms wearing unfamiliar armour. The experiment is plain: take a script with its own deep history and test whether a European tradition can fit it.
The main composition stacks them into a tight block, and the full alphabet runs down the side as a specimen, so you see the system, not just the showpiece.
Mostly it holds — and where it strains, that's where the interest is. The work appears in Slanted Magazine #40, Experimental Type, an issue collecting letters built on accident, system and mistake.
Links & coverage. Official: https://www.slanted.de/product/slanted-magazine-40-experimental-type/ · https://www.instagram.com/slanted_publishers/ · https://www.facebook.com/slanted.blog.magazine/ · https://www.slanted.de/product/slanted-40-experimental-type-2-0/ · https://www.behance.net/gallery/156007021/Slanted-Magazine-40Experimental-Type. Press & coverage: Abduzeedo — https://abduzeedo.com/slanted-magazine-40-experimental-type-2 · The One Club (Type Directors Club) — https://www.oneclub.org/awards/tdcawards/-award/46344/slanted-magazine-40experimental-type/ · Slanted (official) — https://www.slanted.de/making-of-slanted-magazine-40-experimental-type/.
Goshuri — Slanted Magazine #40, Experimental Type
Nelli Kamaeva
