Echo & Bone

The same four patterns kept showing up across unrelated projects. A brand identity, a narrative structure, a household routine. Hero, Shadow, Wise Old Man, Trickster. I wasn’t looking for mythology. I was looking at why certain structures hold weight across completely different materials.

Stoicism is the first test case. Three prints. Each one pairs a Stoic concept with a single visual symbol. The constraint: the visual element encodes the same content as the text, through a different channel. Type and symbol form a single diagram.

The same structural logic shows up in the Order of the Ætherwright’s glyph system and the character design in New City. The taxonomy gives you the structural logic. The specific assembly is where it becomes something you can build with.