“VECTOR, SPIN, STROKE. is an ongoing project explores the role of tools within design investigations. To position design as an investigative activity is to favor a bottom-up approach. As such, a tool stands between oneself and their outputs—it sets up the conditions within one’s processes. Thus, tool-making is an activity through which I choose how to structure my investigations within graphic design. The toolset for this study aims to construct and deconstruct type through three categories: VECTOR, SPIN, and STROKE”