King George III Interactive
The New York-based studio KUDOS used various cuts of the larger Dover family to typeset materials in an interactive exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York, about the toppling of a statue. A set of ropes invite the museum guest to experience what it would have taken, back in 1776, to tear down the statue of the king. It’s a fitting pairing to use Dover for this, as an English design reimagined by a foreign type designer.
KUDOS was commissioned to create “The Toppling of King George III at Bowling Green,” an interactive multimedia installation that reimagines one of the Revolution’s most iconic acts of defiance. Visitors are invited to grasp a pair of hemp ropes and work together to pull down the 4,000-pound statue of King George III, channeling the collective energy of the Sons of Liberty. The statue was later melted down in Connecticut and repurposed into musket balls for the revolutionary cause.
The case study, with video, is on the KUDOS website.
