Deconstruction Construction is an undergraduate typographic project that explores the act of mark-making. The exercise begins by asking participants to make marks with quotidian objects not designed to do so. The participants' explorations culminate in a formal taxonomic analysis. The findings, both formal and conceptual, are reconstructed in the form of an alphabet. ΒΆ The act of mark-making is a primitive impulse, one of the first steps humanity took to keep ideas from the hands of time. As a design project, mark-making is a reflective exercise meant to distract students with their own musings, confront them with their own work habits, but most importantly, allow them to approach their subjective impulses with scientific and artistic objectivity.