prometheus — a typeface about how the inanimate gives birth to the living. At its core is Mary Shelley’s novel: a scientist assembles a body from borrowed parts and breathes life into it, yet cannot accept what they have created.
The typeface lives this story. Each letter is initially dead—just a collection of fragments. It becomes alive through the suture that holds the parts together and the current that runs through them.
The letters come out slightly imperfect and unsettling, with traces of assembly. They don’t hide their seams, just as Frankenstein’s creation cannot hide its own. This is a story about the creator’s responsibility and the beauty of imperfection.
Each sign is composed of four elements.
Bone is the load-bearing straight module.
Organ is the soft shape unique to each sign.
Joint is the double brace connecting the parts.
Seam is the stitching that joins the crossbeams.
Two renderings show two states of the same object.
shov — the body at rest, stitched with even stitches.
razryad — the same body at the moment a current passes through it: details are displaced, and the threads are torn in a zigzag pattern.
The typeface became the foundation of the exhibition «Prometheus: The Living from the Lifeless» identity. Five halls—Body, Current, Seam, Being, and Legacy—guide the viewer through Victor Frankenstein’s journey, from his first experience to his final night in the ice.
