36 Days of Type is an annual challenge where designers and
animators make one character a day, the 26 letters of the
alphabet plus the digits 0 through 9. For the 2021 edition I gave
myself one rule: every letter had to be a place, a person, or a
feeling from Chennai, the city I grew up in. That single
constraint did most of the work.
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The approach
A letter a day is a brutal, useful pace. There’s no time to
overthink it, you sketch the idea in the morning, animate it
across the day, and post it before midnight. Each was animated as
a short loop with sound. The higher-resolution versions with audio
live on Instagram, the grid below is the silent, at-a-glance
version of the whole set.
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iii.
The alphabet
A to Z, in order. Hover any cell to play its loop.
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