So, I just had an in-class critique with Graham, and he suggested the I do the following to further my project (I’m writing this down now, before I lose the scraps of paper I wrote on):
- Look at Bruce Mau’s “Massive Change”: read the manifesto and look at his exhibition
- Maybe my letterforms can be much larger objects, like archways (symbolic of when Roman soilders come home from home, and must pass through the city’s archway to commemorate “coming home”)
- Look at the Behance network for ways in which projects can be presented
- Try varying my letterforms in different sizes and fill up a room with them
- Maybe my letterforms can be so giant, they form a word from the sky, and on ground level people can walk through the letters like a museum walk-through of “the history of type”.
- Major things I must consider within the next couple of weeks:
- Choose the material I want to work with
- Finalize the scale I wish to work at for my scale model
- Create a high-quality scale model, so I can use it for different applications
- Think about the possible context of the project (i.e. type as an icon, maybe it is a museum exhibit, etc.)
- Figure out how to document it (photograph, scale model, video, etc.)
- I will continue to experiment with different materials and scale (translucent material, and larger scale).
- I will pick my material and scale by next class (leaning towards corrugated paper, and a larger scale, maybe 3x the size of what I’ve done so far).
