Fook Regular
Walter Battiss (South African painter) conceived his Fook Island Script between 1965 and 1967 and continued using it in his work and correspondence until his death in 1982. I was briefed in 2015 by Jack Ginsberg from the Wits Art Museum (WAM) and the Ampersand Foundation, to develop the script into a digital font, for its 50th anniversary on the occasion of the exhibition Walter Battiss: “I invented myself” at WAM, Johannesburg, 2016. This year the font, Fook Regular, would be applied to a broadside or type specimen poster and featured in an essay of Battiss' manuscript lettering.
Art Direction, Fine Arts, Typography
Wits Art Museum (WAM) and the Ampersand Foundation