Paul Elliman

Paul Elliman is a London-based artist and designer interested in the mutual impact of technology, language and economic production. Along with the typeface ‘Found Fount’, derived from an ongoing collection of industrial parts in which no letter-form is repeated, Elliman also engages the human voice in many of its social, technological and linguistic guises, from popular songs to public announcements and radio discussions. Sirens Taken for Wonders, a recent project commissioned for the New York biennial Performa09, initiated a series of discussions about the coded language of the city's emergency vehicle sirens.