Microbes are omnipresent at any moment. Over millions of years, we co-evolved to make the best of our relationship. Every human has their own unique microbiome, made up of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other organisms. Some of them harm us, but with whom we have learned to live, while some are friendly. To design an identity system for a museum about bacteria, I started to understand how bacteria behave. Two exciting characteristics of bacteria that I found are how they reproduce and communicate. The division of bacterias inspired the forms of the custom typeface. The ink-traps represents a part in bacteria called “receptor,” which allows them to receive messages from other bacteria. Each bacterium knows two different languages; one is universal, the other is for its kind, so each of them has two different receptors, which is represented by the two different forms of ink-traps on the typeface. The flexible forms of the identity system have also been applied to the iconography, infographics, and patterns.
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