Thonik "brings graphic design to the streets" with its Amsterdam studio

Graphic design studio Thonik's co-founder Thomas Widdershoven and MMX Architecten have transformed a bold typeface into a simple monochrome pattern that covers a six-storey building block in Amsterdam.
Built as an office for the Dutch graphic design studio, the entire exterior is covered in a simple combination of black and white lines that were pulled from the Mexcellent typeface – a trilinear-stripe font that was created for the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City.As with the typeface, Wid