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Take a seat and say something
Same as before but thought of as an installation/live type.
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As Thomas Fuller used to say…
A book that is shut is but a block. I thought of this experiment as a tautology: shut books that are therefore just blocks used to talk about the fact that shut books are just blocks.
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Book as a block, block as a type = booksetting
The adaptation of Thomas Fuller’s phrase “A book that is shut is but a block” in the previous bookshelves installation was illustrated by my use of the book for their shape and colour, rather than...
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Love 2009!
This week, instead of going to work, I asked dozens and dozens of strangers to stop whatever they were doing to draw a heart with their hands.
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Love rubber
Research on contextual lettering, or how to get a word to say more than it reads. The typeface made of blue rubber gloves is called Marigold, the black leatherish one is Mapplethorpe.
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Fred Astaire vs Tony Blair
Rhyming slang is a form of English slang in which a word is replaced by a rhyming word, typically the second word of a two-word phrase (so stairs becomes “apples and pears”, feet “Plate of meat”, etc)...
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Mapplethorpe ll
mapplethorpe ll This is a second version of the Mapplethorpe alphabet, using the American photographer’s world as a mood board. This is part of my research on how to get a letter to mean more than it...
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Legttering/Body type
Body as letter form This experiment takes advantage of the fact that a lot of the typographic vocabulary is based on the human body: anatomy, body size, head piece, footers. Same thing for the book: a...
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Clerkenwell Design Week 2011: Stop Motion Typography workshop
Typographic performance at Liverpool Street Station (18:00:00 – 19:00:00) For Clerkenwell Design Week 2011 DesignMarketo is setting up at the Farmiloe Building on St John Street in collaboration with...
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Show: Word Art Collective
Some of my video and photography-based typographic work will be shown by the Word Art Collective at the Hoxton Arches from Wednesday 21st November to Saturday 8th December 2012. The Word Art Collective...
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