Omid Nemalhabib

Writing doesn't have to be clear. This project begins with that refusal.

Struggling Writing investigates writing as a material, performative, and temporal practice, asking: how can opacity, accumulation, and illegibility become productive conditions in contemporary design? Drawing on Siyahmashq—a Persian calligraphic practice where letters accumulate until legibility dissolves—the research develops this centuries-old tradition into a rigorous methodology for contemporary typography, demonstrating that disciplined excess generates forms of knowledge unavailable to transparent communication.

This project proposes typography as cosmological practice: not designing for the world, but designing worlds. Grounded in Henry Corbin's imaginal realm, Federico Campagna's world-making, Theodor Adorno's essay as constellation, and Situationist détournement, the research treats typographic systems as active propositions for alternative modes of existence and knowledge production.