Lovelace pays tribute to 19th century mathematician Ada Lovelace, who made a vast conceptual leap in anticipating our modern computer age from its early origins in mechanical calculators. The daughter of infamous bad boy poet Lord Byron, Lovelace coined the term “poetical science” to describe her synthesis of logical analysis and intuitive imagination.

Expanding from its four inch square into a faceted sculptural form, Lovelace features risograph-printed designs based on the diagrams in an 1882 manual on Jacquard weaving held at Letterform Archive. The punch card technology first invented to automate complex weaving patterns was subsequently employed by early computers to input programming—a direct lineage from textiles to artificial intelligence.