vägra!

‘‘if something did go terribly wrong in human history—and given the current state of the world, it's hard to deny something did—then perhaps it began to go wrong precisely when people started losing that freedom to imagine and enact other forms of social existence to such a degree that some now feel this particular type of freedom hardly ever existed or was barely exercised for the greater part of human history.’’ —david graeber and david wengrow

vägra! started out as a typographic idea in watercolour and was then hand-drawn in my notebook over the course of a few weeks, digitalised over a whole summer. i experimented with the coherence that could be created outside of directly visible rules, starting without restrictions and then finding guiding principles along the way. through this dynamic process, vägra! achieves a certain amount of legibility while also distancing itself from conventional type categories.