Gajana Aslanjan (Tashkent, 1997) is a graphic and type designer based in The Netherlands who works in assignment but also initiates work herself. The work varies from print, type design, video, illustration and digital work. Currently working as a graphic designer for Lightyear in Helmond, the Netherlands.
These styles originated from the research on the movement of flat nib writing tools such as the flat brush and flat brush markers and the search for the tension between static and dynamic, the translation of movement, and an interest in the Gaelic handwritten script. I tried to show the acceleration and deceleration in speed while handling the tool and how it translates itself into the different styles within the family. Anguilla embraces its static as well as its dynamic shapes and combines them into something coherent whilst showing the individual movements of the original stroke-making, embracing the classic shape structure that is needed to maintain legibility. The proces was vast, but also very interesting. I made sure to try out everything I was interested in and in the end it gave me many different opportunities for new projects and interests.
