This constellation made me giggle. I like how “Super-Ego” and Freud are next to each other in the illustration… I’ve never been a huge fan of Freud.

For this micro-assignment I experimented with the 3D functions in Illustrator. Taken from this sentence: “[...] three-dimensional structures held together by lines, planes and volumes of text through which a reader may travel [...].

http://www.bornmagazine.org/projects/no_longer_think/

“I Can No Longer Think” by Emma Ramey, Moto Interactive and Isaac Ruiz is a beautiful piece that emulates confusion within ones thoughts. That is done with clever use of video sequences that are always blown out, unclear, unstable, that are continuously playing at a fast pace. The words of the poem appear within the frame unrelated to the video sequence, but the theme of confusion is always present, and it ads to the path that thoughts follow within our heads.

I chose this video because I really liked how the theme was interpreted. The poem is beautiful and is very well represented with the fast pace camera work. I find this work to be very inspiring and would love to emulate something like this in my future projects.

1.2

I love the Caslon ampersand so much that I decided to get it tattooed on my back. So that’s the first photograph. After that is a graffiti, and then the third photograph is of an exposition. Fourth (please excuse the quality of my cellphone camera) is of a magazine and fifth is of a restaurant called Juliette & Chocolat. Last photograph is of a metal ampersand that can be purchased on the web.

1.3

While I’m not sure if I got this question right, I tried to recreate the ampersand with everyday objects. Caslon with post-its, Davilo Book with sunglasses and Baskerville with a necklace.

1.4

For my typographic treatment, I decided to create a piece that would slowly, but never completely, reveal itself to match the feelings of the woman in Bringhurst’s poem.
I did some experiments before starting the project and none were satisfactory. I wanted to purchase vinyl letters, but that solution would have been too costly. Luckily, Dollarama had cheap white scratch on letters usually used for scrapbooking, and even if the fonts were horrible, they did the job.
The letters and paper being white, it is almost impossible to read the words of the poem. Once on the wall, I used some wood varnish to create the droplets and make the message appear more clearly. The varnish made the paper darken while the scratch on letters remained white.
** Accidents: I had to purchase 15 sets of scratch-on letters for this project, and I still ran out of Es. That didn’t matter because most of the letters fell off during the varnishing process. Also, the effect is only temporary as varnish spreads on thin sheets of paper (like the one I used) quite fast. Thought, when I brought the sheet outside to let it dry, I realized that all the letters of the poem were shinning in the sunlight. That might not have been part of the project but it was nevertheless a very nice surprise.

1.5

For this project I decided to mix analog and digital: my drawings and some retro font. For the typography I simply created a new gradient, applied the gradient to each letter and changed the rotation for the gradient depending on the letter. The drawings were all taken/scanned from my sketchbook (which explains the bad quality).

To do each letter, I agitated glowsticks in front of my camera (with slow shutter speeds and in a dark room). I know it’s been done before but it was a lot of fun to experiment with movement, time, lighting and volume to create each letter.