Richard van de Laken and Eric Wie: Tapewriter

One of the first typographic experiments of Autobahn is Tapewriter: a font basing its form to the grid of a football cage. The width of a roll of duct tape, the ‘writing material’, matches the space between two bars of such a cage construction perfectly. The idea behind the font is that anyone who is in possession of a roll of tape, can submit his or her message to the world. Tapewriter clearly demonstrates you can write with anything and any surface can be a sheet.

Tapewriter is developed during a HKU seminar of Richard van de Laken and Eric Wie and was later worked out into a type specimen. In this specimen a lot of photos of the font production and surroundings were added deliberately: it shows the creativity and fun of writing with tape.