Aaron Gillett - Occupied Mono

Aaron Gillett is an Australian graphic designer, currently working at Josephmark in Brisbane. He has a background in architecture and industrial design and interested in the ideas and motivations behind thoughtful, clever design!

We decided to feature one of his school project; Occupied Mono.

A monospaced display typeface was developed as an offering towards a visual common ground for the occupiers. Selected type specimens were overprinted on copies of the News Corp. owned paper, The Australian. The newspaper effectively became ‘occupied’ with the existing design adopting a whole new meaning. The movement’s diversity is of course one of its central strengths and characteristics, so the typeface is not intended as a kind of brand homogenization. Rather, the design is a visual equivalent of the unifying verbal devices used by the occupiers, such as their very nomenclature (i.e. Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Brisbane) and slogans like "we are the 99%". Designed in collaboration with Luke Robertson.