Abstract typeface
This is the abstract typeface that I will be using in this project. It is a very simple design made from taking strips away from a solid black cube, the letter A is as stripped down as the typeface becomes, L is the fullest, letters after L are variations ensuring each letter form is unique. The typeface has a quality about it that resembles a musical composition, this is partly due to the fact that the typeface is partly based on the Ching Divination used by John Cage to make his compositions.
Philippe Parreno Serpentine Gallery
Philippe Parreno turns the Serpentine gallery into a scripted space where a series of events take place. He heightens the viewers sensory experience through the use of sound and image. Much like my own work he uses sound that is site specific to the Serpentine, bringing sounds from around the gallery's surrounding streets and gardens into the gallery environment.
Workshop 3 / Sound As Typography [outcomes]
Voice recording of "I do everything I think possible to escape from this trap of language" edited and distorted using Audacity.
Escape this trap of language by thomasdurrans
Even further distortion to the quote, more layers are used this time repeating certain parts of the recording.
further distortion of voice recording by thomasdurrans
Sound piece created by scanning my handwriting, digitalising the image, saving as a TIFF file and then importing the file into Audacity as raw data. This sound is saying 'language'.
TIFF as sound by thomasdurrans
Escape this trap of language by thomasdurrans
Even further distortion to the quote, more layers are used this time repeating certain parts of the recording.
further distortion of voice recording by thomasdurrans
Sound piece created by scanning my handwriting, digitalising the image, saving as a TIFF file and then importing the file into Audacity as raw data. This sound is saying 'language'.
TIFF as sound by thomasdurrans
Workshop 2 / Everyday Typography (continued)
My outcome for this workshop was to directly copy some of the signs that I found around the market. I found in almost every case this to be a very easy task as basically every sign appears to be made in 'Microsoft Word' with a simple use of wordart and different coloured/sized fonts included in the programme. The only exception was an open sign designed in a font that appears to be dripping, I could not locate this exact font but a similar one can be seen, The purpose of this was to put myself in the designers shoes and experience the exact design choices made.
Workshop 2 / Everyday Typography
For this workshop I was recording everyday typography at the Leeds Kirkgate indoor market, the biggest of its kind in the U.K. With such a high concentration of typography I needed to find a focus for my research. Although not hand drawn in the conventional sense it is the low quality signs produced on word processing programmes that interests me the most. These signs are mostly created by people with little to no knowledge of typographic or graphic design and with minimal computer based skills. Due to the primitive design of these signs they possess a hand drawn quality.
Workshop 1 / Words And Things in Space
The outcome for this workshop was to produce a visual essay in response to a walk that had been mapped out around the city of Leeds in a way that it would spell 'Here'. To make my visual essay coherent I came up with a system of documenting my walk. My system was to only record what I could find on the ground throughout the walk. This seemed like an interesting point of focus as when looking for typography in space be it obvious or something that only appears typographical, ground level is not where the majority of typography is found. I am more interested in the words and things in space that are not usually noticed, when walking you are looking around your environment not at your feet. This focus would hopefully lead to a more interesting piece of work.
By only focusing on the typographies I could find on the floor in the contemporary city scape a lot of what I have documented has a very temporary feel to it, mainly from builders and technicians marking the ground for construction, some marks been very obviously typographic but many consisting of unrecognizable marks and symbols which in the different contexts of the city scape could be read very differently. All of the typographical pieces I recorded create a narrative for the environment they were made.
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