Friday 13 January 2012

what's in a name?










nameplates
personal project


A while ago I started fiddling around with type compositions having fun simply exploring graphic form, limits of legibility, and color schemes.

More recently, I decided to create some concrete examples for a few friends' children as Christmas presents. Using Avant Garde Gothic Extra Light as a neutral and geometric font, each child’s name is set in either a landscape or stacked square-setting depending on which seemed to suit the name best. I then applied individual colour palettes – intuitively associated with each child – derived from direct physical attributes or recurring colours picked out from photographic portrait-reference.

Color-jet printed onto Canson paper and simply framed, some are clearly more legible than others, but in the end, I am not so sure that it's all that important to decipher the actual name as the piece takes on a life of its own and becomes a unique typographical portrait.

Try to imagine what each child looks like…

7 comments:

  1. I want one too!!

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  2. These have received so many compliments. And rightly so! Thanks again for these works of art. : )

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  3. And you managed to use Oliver's 3 favourite colours. He was more than impressed!

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    1. tx, ftim. it all just was kinda in the flow and took shape. they aren't icebergs, but heartfelt none the less ;-) tell oli, that i've got him figured out - ha! more than i can say for that little frankie. hope to see you all sometime soon. still got sand between your toes?

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  4. colour blocking at its best!

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  5. these are great, excellent color combinations too!

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