Sarah Milton x Printer of Dreams

posted by Marcroy March 1, 2014

Sarah Milton x Printer of Dreams presents ‘Helvetica Folded’. Over the next fortnight, surface pattern designer, Sarah Milton will be taking over the Printer of Dreams window display with her unique take on typography. The window exhibition will run for two weeks, with all three of her signed Limited Edition Sarah Milton x Printer of Dreams Giclée prints available in our online shop here.

Sarah Milton specializes in striking geometric prints that both beguile and confuse viewers, as they attempt discern what is so familiar about the strange shapes they are staring at. Currently based in East London, Sarah Milton’s typographic wallpapers and artist Print’s have won her plaudits around the globe, from York to New York. Her unique style is the result of an almost obsessive fascination with the process of abstracting and distorting typography.

Beginning with only a chosen font, Sarah prints particular characters onto small squares and then methodically begins an unplanned journey of distortion via a series of origami folds, until she has created and carefully composed an entirely alien pattern. The result here is a bold and rhythmic collection that playfully questions the viewer to trace what is legible and what is not?

Awarded the Timorous Beasties Award by the Wallpaper History Society in 2011. She launched her first Wallpaper Collection at DesignJunction during London Design festival in 2012. Her work has been featured in a host of publications including; Wallpaper, The Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times.