compositions by felix sandvoss With such rapid technological advancement over the past few decades the design world now predominantly exists online. It’s therefore increasingly rare to come across a designer who not only works with analogue, hands-on techniques, but one who also strongly advocates for them. Felix Sandvoß is one such designer. Seeing softwares like Photoshop and Illustrator as “limiting creativity”, he tries to work away from his screen as much as possible. “In this fast paced digital graphic world things are often based on work we find on Instagram or other socials,” the designer elaborates, “so I’m trying to counteract that, and build ideas based on shapes found in nature.” It’s this approach and search for “forms that can’t be found anywhere else” that Felix sees as having helped him to constantly push typographic boundaries. Before starting any project Felix explores various “structures, textures, fragments, shadows, liquids and objects” before he lands on a combination that has the potential to result in a typeface. Then, he will spend hours sketching and trialling different visuals with a pencil, before he “knows the curves by heart”. This attention to detail is instantly apparent in Felix’s work. While there is such variation throughout each of his typefaces, what unifies all of them is the way in which each glyph artfully and seamlessly glides into the other, almost appearing like an aqueous substance.