Onari Projects is a design studio run by Anina Amacker and Laura Moor. Commissioned to design the signage for an educational centre, Onari Projects took the school’s interior design and its notion of diversity as a starting point for an overarching design concept. Charlotte Rohde’s New Edge served as the project’s basis because of its dynamic typeface characterised by contrasts of corners and curves, thus fitting perfectly into the context of the building itself. 

Using methods ranging between the digital and analogue, such as laser cutting, thermoforming, 3D scanning and printing, the letters are expanded from a two-dimensional surface into a three-dimensional body. The third dimension intensifies the characteristics of the letters and gives them an individuality bordering on the limits of legibility. The letters’ silver surface reflects the colours of the building and, as such, gently interacts with the architecture’s space. 

Onari Projects’ ambition, costs and the architectural structure of the building itself were decisive for the production method and materials employed.