Joshua Davis is a wizard of typography in the digital age

“I have a compulsion to make things and release them out into the world, but I don’t ever think, ‘I’m supposed to be doing this.’ One thing that I’m good at is not thinking too much. If I did that, nothing would ever happen” said Joshua Davis said in a 2013 interview with The Great Discontent. This New York-based artist, designer, and technologist who produces public and private work for companies, collectors, and institutions is a wizard of The Digital Ages. He’s been called a punk, a provocateur, the bad boy of Web design. For some people he is the Jackson Pollock of the Internet age and for good reason. His website, praystation.com, which he used to exhibit new design work and experiments using code, was one of the first to offer open source files for download. Here we present you with his 33 studies of Type as Texture using Decima Mono but he doesn’t care that much about how we perceive his vision. “I think if you care about leaving some kind of legacy, then maybe the work that you’re doing isn’t truthful. Legacy is for others to decide. You should just shut the fuck up and make stuff—if a legacy happens, then it’s just sprinkles on the ice cream” he added. Check more of his mindblowing experiments here.