This project is a typographic experiment, in which I was looking for less noticeable typography with an underlying story. Because of the different street styles, I got inspired by Urban Cities like Arnhem and Utrecht. I noticed that an incredible amount of stickers around Utrecht city were pasted by random people. However, many people don’t pay much attention on them or consider the variations and the stories behind it. Beside, Utrecht is also a city of Arts, storytellers that speak through poems, and all the unique quotations tiled on the streets that engraved memories. Where you can endlessly follow the route and enjoy the street decor, canals and a daily life during city walks. That endlessness art and fusion through words, has inspired me to this project. Where I designed this book, that is entangled by endless patterns that arise from typography from the city. Followed by the poem, that lays in the streets of Utrecht, as an Ode to the city itself.
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Utrecht seen from a boat.
What a beautiful image.
Although I sail through it a hundred times.
Such a trip is something that never gets boring.
People enjoying on the yards.
De Oudegracht is overcrowded.
Nothing can spoil the fun here.
Wherever you look, everyone is having fun.
That trip through the canals of Utrecht.
I enjoyed that to the fullest.
The memories that trip brought me.
Is forever engraved in my memory.
The letters van Utrecht
