Back in my March entry in this page I noted that inspiration can come from unexpected things. This observation applies equally well to August’s alphabet.

When walking through the City of London I noticed a small detail of the façade of the former Midland Bank branch building in Leadenhall street, designed by Edwin Lutyens. Above the keystone of each arch was a rhomboidal recess, into which was inserted an oval form that fully occupied the width and height of the form that contained it. This seemed to me to create a tension - the oval pushing to expand and escape, the enclosing quadrilateral seeking to prevent this occurring.

This basic concept of curvilinear shapes constrained within a regular enclosure evolved into this font, in which individual letters are animated, squirming and pulsing, struggling to escape the imposed conformity of their environment.