Presenter
Tyler Miles
Document Type
Poster
Publication Date
2026
Abstract
Created for GDES 2000, STANDARD ISSUE explored the font Helvetica and rigid masculinity using archival military testing imagery. The project deconstructed the typeface's neutrality, personifying Helvetica as a clinical figure of, "structured, pervasive, and subverted" nature. By juxtaposing 1950s Swiss design with the physical vulnerability of military experimentation, the work examined the "bureaucracy of language," ultimately framing the "standard" as a form of armor that humans wear as much as it wears them.
Faculty Mentor
Tim Cox, M.F.A.
Academic Discipline
College of Arts & Sciences
Repository Citation
Miles, Tyler, "Standard Issue" (2026). Student Research Design & Innovation Symposium. 302.
https://scholarsarchive.jwu.edu/innov_symposium/302
