Typographic Index of Groenewoud

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Robyn Sonntag is a Swiss-based designer working across spatial design, product design and design research. Through hands-on material experimentation, conceptual research and visual storytelling, she explores the intersections of design, environment and industry, and the relationships between people, the spaces they inhabit and the systems that shape them.

She works between digital and analogue methods, from sketching and form studies to modelling, prototyping and full-scale execution. Her work is functional, yet it aims to invite people to think differently about how we coexist with our surroundings.

Education

Bachelor of Arts in Design
Design Academy Eindhoven (NL) Cum Laude

Exhibition

Graduation Show 2026
@Dutch Design Week (Eindhoven, NL)
“Soft Transit”

Blind Spot
@Dutch Design Week (Eindhoven, NL)
“80 Years – 8 Seconds – 180 Grams”, with Paula Schulte

Covilhã Design Triennial
(Covilhã, PT)
“Fountain Scapes”

Glass Room
@Dutch Design Week (Eindhoven, NL)
“Felt Dirty”

We were here
@Salone del Mobile (Milan, IT)
“Curtain of Host and Commensal”, with Bureautobeconfirmed

Fields of Industries
@Z33 (Hasselt, BE)
“Rhine‘s transformation‘”, with Studio Technogeographies

Email, Instagram

This mapping project explores the visual identity of Groenewoud, an area in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, through its distinctive typography and symbols. By documenting typefaces found across restaurants, shops, street signs, graffiti, and other public displays, the project provides a detailed view of the neighbourhood’s typographic character. Each font was photographed in its natural context, analysed for its unique traits, colors, and origins, and cataloged into a comprehensive archive of Groenewoud’s visual landscape.

The final outcome includes two large-format posters. The primary poster is a structured index, presenting each font in visual overviews that represent individual shops and establishments. The second poster reinterprets an online description of Groenewoud itself, using the area’s own typefaces to convey this narrative. Additionally, this poster includes a color-based map of Groenewoud, highlighting the observation points where each typeface was documented. This blend of documentation and typographic re-creation captures the unique essence of Groenewoud, conveying its atmosphere through the very fonts that define its streetscape.

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