Posts categorized “Inspiration”.

Typeworkshop.com

http://www.typeworkshop.com/Florence_12_2005/final-result/florence-final-07.jpg

http://www.typeworkshop.com/Florence_12_2005/final-result/florence-final-07.jpg


Typeworkshop.com shows various results of workshops by Underware, a design company specialized on type design and production. Students work with different media and show different approaches to thematic titles such as ‘darkmark’, ‘Movable Type’ or ‘Applied Type’.

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Sandy Smith

http://www.sandysmith.co.uk/artwork/computers/sunset/sandy_smith_sunset_01.jpg

http://www.sandysmith.co.uk/artwork/computers/sunset/sandy_smith_sunset_01.jpg

http://www.sandysmith.co.uk/artwork/poststuckism/image5.html

http://www.sandysmith.co.uk/artwork/poststuckism/image5.html


Sandy Smith’s ‘Mauritian Sunset’ is a wall of computers and screens and ‘Please don’t break my heart’ was made from around 100 sheets of mounting board glued together to form the sentence “All the time I was making this I was thinking of you”. It fell during the exhibition as it could not stand without scaffolding. I think in combination with the title and the text this unintended transformation due to the physical construction becomes a significant part of the art work.

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Type Posters

http://daniellaspinat.com/images/bierut/1.jpg

http://daniellaspinat.com/images/bierut/1.jpg

by Daniella Spinat

http://www.graphicthoughtfacility.com/images/gagosianposter_web.jpg

http://www.graphicthoughtfacility.com/images/gagosianposter_web.jpg

by GTF

http://mciancio.com/work_images/english/english.jpg

http://mciancio.com/work_images/english/english.jpg

by Michael Ciancio

http://www.flag.cc/woodcuts/pics/woodcuts_04.jpg

http://www.flag.cc/woodcuts/pics/woodcuts_04.jpg

by Bastien Aubry

http://www.manystuff.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/task01.jpg

http://www.manystuff.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/task01.jpg

by Alex DeArmond

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TSANG Kin-Wah

http://www.tsangkinwah.com/image/megART7.jpg

http://www.tsangkinwah.com/image/megART7.jpg


TSANG Kin-Wah makes wall installations in the form of taped text or text-patterns.

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Perhaps the Horizon


Type and material physically animated.

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Mike Mills, Blonde Redhead - Silently

http://mikemillsweb.com/filmandvideo_br_silently.html

http://mikemillsweb.com/filmandvideo_br_silently.html


With ‘Blonde Redhead - Silently’ Mike Mills made a music video that creates images with just plain white text on a black ground describing scenes different to the lyrics of the song.

In 1959 McLuhan said “flickers, as the movies were once called, are really built into the printed form. The printed form is itself a flicker in which you are constantly transferring from this shot to that shot. This shot, the image lingers while you look at that one, and while you look at the next one, there’s a fingering, wavering, doubtful no-man’s land.” (Essential McLuhan, p.282)

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Ernesto Neto, Tara Donovan, Tomas Saraceno, Tobias Putrih

http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/neto/7.jpg

http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/neto/7.jpg

http://www.acegallery.net/artists/donovan/TD-UntCupsLA.jpg

http://www.acegallery.net/artists/donovan/TD-UntCupsLA.jpg

http://maxprotetch.com/MEDIA/00178.jpg

http://maxprotetch.com/MEDIA/00178.jpg

http://www.re-title.com/public/exhibitors/936/archive_1940_TanyaBonakdarGallery-2.jpg

http://www.re-title.com/public/exhibitors/936/archive_1940_TanyaBonakdarGallery-2.jpg

Artist work in the field of installation and sculpture: Ernesto Neto, Tara Donovan, Tomas Saraceno and Tobias Putrih give examples of creative space, usage of materials with high availability and modular construction.
Ernesto Neto is mostly working with light, flexible fabrics in nylon or cotton resulting in spaceous installations whereas Tara Donovan uses various everyday materials such as tape, drinking straws or plastic cups to form large-scale abstract floor and wall works.”She considers patterning, configuration, and the play of light when determining the structure of her works but the final form evolves from the innate properties and structures of the material itself.”(Hammer Museum, Los Angeles 2004) Tomas Saraceno used elastic rope to realize installations like ‘Galaxies Forming ALong Filaments, Like Droplets Along the Strands of a Spider’ which I got to see in New York this year. Among Tobias Putrih’s work especially the usage of cardboard or projection screens are interesting references.

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Augmented space, Edges light-installation

http://www.pablovalbuena.com/imgs/quebec.jpg

http://www.pablovalbuena.com/imgs/quebec.jpg

http://www.framebox.de/creations/3d/edges/till_stefan.jpg

http://www.framebox.de/creations/3d/edges/till_stefan.jpg

With his augmented sculptures and urban installation Pablo Valbuena shows great effect with a simple method. A combination of light and object at it’s best. Stefan Golz and Till Nowak were doing some light installations with a similar idea. They also used some typographic elements in Edges but ulike Pablo Valbuena they did not project them considering the three-dimensional distortion of the projection.

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Theme Tunes Posters

http://www.tommunckton.co.uk/images/them_tune_2.jpg

http://www.tommunckton.co.uk/images/them_tune_2.jpg

Tom Munckton explored the relationship between typography and language and designed a poster series that show how lyrics for an instrumental song could look like. Reminded me a bit of Dada but seems much more fun to me.

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vvvv Typography sketch


typo sketch 0.1 from phl on Vimeo.

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