Reverting to Type



Reverting to Type.

4th–22nd Jan 2011



Reverting to Type is an exhibition of contemporary letterpress practitioners, showcasing how a centuries-old craft is being reinvented for modern day usage. I looked for visual typographic experience and was impressed by works on this exhibtion !

"The exhibition is curated by Graham Bignell of New North Press and graphic designer Richard Ardagh and features prints and publications by progressive practitioners from around the world. To coincide with the exhibition, New North Press has publishes the first in a series of collaborative prints by contemporary artists, designers and wordsmiths. The majority of the show’s unique exhibits will be for sale and the gallery will also host a working Adana press to hand-print your own personalised Christmas cards.

Reverting to Type aims to highlight the pioneers at the
helm of the current resurgence of interest in letterpress;
from computer-based designers with a desire to ply a craft
with a tactile immediacy that has been lost with modern
technology, to traditional presses finding a new way to
revitalise their design output."

http://www.new-north-press.co.uk/

Photo shoot ->

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The form and colours remind me Spunch Bob from children cartoon

Wish you where here :)

Useful advice :)

Alphabet by (I hope I'm not wrong) Chelsea College of Art and Design. 

Bright colours and uppercase letters, narrow space between letters together looks energetic, fast, non-static.

Guide to Good Typography.

Possibly it is

Yeah, not so far as Novosibirsk :)

And in this work as well : bright warm colours (red, orange, yellow/gold) , vectors of the shining yellow background - from the prize in the center of the background, imitating shining, 'number One' in the center of the whole composition, repeated exclamation mark - everything looks positive together :P

You need to spend few time trying to understand what's written there, but it's one of the examples when shapes of the letters become actually tools creating new forms, mixing and layiong them out

Captaion Obvious favorite poster

Ooh.. Oke

>_<

Love X possible ?

squap squared

Amazing, great idea!

!!!

And the last one, for the typographic dessert ! :)

As the result - I got new experience as emotions from the works and knowledge about typography as the design process. Also looked for contemporary art, which actually selling from the exhibitions. And it's interesting to look for what's trendy and how works showing together linked between themselves but created by different people.

Thanks for reading, take care.

GV Art Gallery : Brainstorm

Guardian about - http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jan/14/brainstorm-exhibition-brain-gv-art

I really like the idea of the exhibition, because brain is unique part of everybody. Place where we keep all information, inlcuding information how to operate our body. Our soul ? All emotions, dreams, feeling - everything which each person consists of.

Here we go.



Headache by Helen Pynor , C-type photograph on Duratran



From Within by Annie Catrell, photogram archivally printed

3D Brain :)

My Soul Glass by Katharine Dowson, laser etching of the artist’s brain. Lovely.



Sections of brain and spinal cord at the Tissue Bank, Imperial College. Truth)



Brainscape 17 by Susan Aldworth, etching and aquatint

Thanks.
New post coming soon, some typographic design and new expirements :P

ISTD : Flatland

Okey.
We started a typographic project based on the satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, called Flatland.
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland  - information about the novella.
http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~banchoff/Flatland/ - actually content.

The full name of the novella is "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions"
The plot beautifully described on the Wikipedia, so, read the link.

We were asked to choose a chapter for analyse and think about the themes. I decided to pick 14th chapter, where the square (actually the main hero of novella) coming back from the journey to the other dimension and trying to describe the King of Lineland the other dimension. And, as the result, he finally got that it's impossible to explain, because the King doesn't want to understand.
The main idea for me was the narrowness of thinking, the impossibility of making different point of view.
And I tried to mix dimensions, type and narrow angles :)

Experiments:

That's how we see letter in 3D world. We have X Y Z coordinates. There are just X and Y in 2D world. And if we imagine that Z from 3D becomes X or Y in another Flatland we will see just the part of the letter (which was actually it's volume) but it will be still possible to recognize it.

And I started cutting out the first letter from "Flatland"

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Difference between 2D and 3D letter

3D letter "F"

Cutted out

Then I got the cutted sides of the F letter and tryed diffirent variations.

F

3D goes 2D

So we can see just X and Y parts of the letter

Low-class party :) "..therefore, triangles, having only three sides, are at the bottom of the social ladder and are considered generally unintelligent.."

With shadow on the backgroung

2D letter based on the 3D

Shadows and transulent plastic

3F -> 3D

2D..

And shadows , which only exists in 3D world

I really like the reflections on the glossy surface of the heroes of the novella, which are actually 2D but the shining gives it depth. 

X flat F, Y flat F - Z 'shadowed' F. 3 letters - 3 dimensions.

X and Y "F" making a lovely shadow together

Oh, there! :)

If we imagine that one metal line is a Lineland, so two of them making Flatland, and the Flat universe must be something like this.