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A Journey, 2022
7 images
Music video for "A Journey" by Hinako Omori. The video is an ode to the rich, immersive and healing soundscape that blends binaural field recordings with ambient synths. Inspired and guided by nature, the collected footage captures environmental glimpses that evoke fragments of a personal memory. A risograph-printed analog treatment echoes the voice in fleeting moments.
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Vector Festival, 2021
6 images
Vector Festival is a participatory and community-oriented platform devoted to showcasing digital and new media art practices. This year’s theme, Network Dependencies, asked what post-isolation co-existence might look like and explored new ways of being together, finding community, and sharing space through programming in both digital and physical spaces.
When approaching the design for this project, Rebecca Wilkinson and I embraced a process of making that encouraged us to connect to each other and to the outdoors after months of isolation. We began with an afternoon of plant collecting and cyanotype printing under the sun before turning to our usual design tools to create a layer of graphic connections between the analog and the digital. This identity features a flexible grid structure adapted to function across various digital and analog formats and platforms.
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KACHI-BUWA, 2020 (ongoing)
16 images
KACHI-BUWA investigates how graphic representation can communicate the nuances in connotations and culture-specific contexts expressed by onomatopoeia in the Japanese language. This project exists as a body of typographic work orbiting around a conceptual variable Katakana typeface which aims at bridging sound, form and signification while being embedded in Japanese visual culture.
✷ Onomatopoeic expressions speak their meanings through both sound and form, breaking linguistic barriers and granting a strictly iconic form of communication.
→ View KACHI-BUWA Live
→ View project website
→ View project video
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Apart—Together, 2020
7 images
Given the spatial and material constraints of the COVID-19 quarantine, designers Rebecca Wilkinson, Eric Francisco and myself wondered what it would look like to collaborate on a storytelling project from a distance during a time of social isolation. Taking inspiration from a point on John Baldessari’s 1970 CalArts assignment sheet, the project’s co-authors took turns photographing, writing, and combining the two to create new, unexpected meanings from these fragmentary pieces.
• Two-Colour Risograph
• Postcard edition of 180 copies
• Poster edition of 36 copies
• Postcards: 6” x 4.25”
• Poster: 11” x 17”
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Variable Axes & Superglyph Workshop, 2021 (Collisions)
3 images
Collisions is an independent and remote summer workshop hosted by studio basic. The workshop invites future thinkers to come together and explore the digital landscape, merging the disciplines of type design, variable type design, 3D sculpting, 3D landscape design, and digital fashion. I was invited to facilitate a workshop on experimental variable type design.
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Vector Festival, 2020
5 images
Vector Festival* is a participatory and community-oriented platform devoted to showcasing digital and new media art practices. Reformatted to take place virtually, this year’s festival explored themes of solitude, distanced interaction, digital art-making & curation as well as emerging forms of community, solidarity and care.
Tasked with creating an identity system that expressed Jordan Shaw's concept for a site that encourages a participatory viewing experience through visitors’ real-time anonimized data visualizations, Rebecca Wilkinson and I developed a visual language that celebrates the energy generated from a collective online presence. This graphic approach is paired with an eclectic typographic treatment that honours the diversity of artistic voices featured in the festival.
*Vector Festival is a project of InterAccess, based in Toronto, Canada. Working site developed by Jordan Shaw & Marcelo Luft.
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fettle Typeface, 2018 (w-i-p)
10 images
A typeface in which the design and typographic details of the letterforms are inspired by trimming and cleaning tools used in ceramics. As a display and text typeface, it is intended to complement ceramic-related photographs and content both in print and on the web. The letterforms represent the tools that are used to shape ceramic work, and concurrently, they are the tools that shape the message about that ceramic work.
• 27 Glyphs
• Bold and Regular Weight
• Type Specimen Book
• Type Specimen Posters
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Richmond-Adelaide Cycle Tracks, 2019*
5 images
The data story aims to inform about the recent success of the Richmond-Adelaide Street cycle tracks in Toronto, which is measured by an increase in security and a significant growth in cycling demand. We hope it will make people who currently do not cycle reflect on the state of Toronto’s cycling infrastructure and ultimately encourage cycling as a means of transportation.
• Data story newspaper: 11"x17"
• Data intervention in the city: 30"x40" (3 panels)
* Collaboration with Tyler Job
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Seeing Lines, 2018
7 images
Seeing Lines is a small collection of photographs exploring linear details found in the city of Copenhagen. The book is divided into three sections: Below, In Between and Above. They weave into each other to evoke the feeling of wandering the streets of Copenhagen, starting from looking at the ground, then looking across from you, and finally looking up to the sky.
• 44-page booklet
• Dimensions: 4.5"x7"
• Edition: 15
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ANSWER, 2016
2 images
A growing distrust in the media at a time of increasing social and political tensions has left people looking for answers elsewhere. This typographic installation reflects this sentiment and contextualizes the word “ANSWER” in a larger picture, the sky of an urban landscape.
• Corrugated coroplast covered with newspaper
• Dimensions of word installation: 40’’x9’’
• Photographed on location on 35mm film
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A Journey, 2022
7 images
Music video for "A Journey" by Hinako Omori. The video is an ode to the rich, immersive and healing soundscape that blends binaural field recordings with ambient synths. Inspired and guided by nature, the collected footage captures environmental glimpses that evoke fragments of a personal memory. A risograph-printed analog treatment echoes the voice in fleeting moments.
Vector Festival 2021
5 images
Vector Festival is a participatory and community-oriented platform devoted to showcasing digital and new media art practices. This year’s theme, Network Dependencies, asked what post-isolation co-existence might look like and explored new ways of being together, finding community, and sharing space through programming in both digital and physical spaces.
When approaching the design for this project, Rebecca Wilkinson and I embraced a process of making that encouraged us to connect to each other and to the outdoors after months of isolation. We began with an afternoon of plant collecting and cyanotype printing under the sun before turning to our usual design tools to create a layer of graphic connections between the analog and the digital. This identity features a flexible grid structure adapted to function across various digital and analog formats and platforms.
KACHI-BUWA, 2020 (ongoing)
16 images
KACHI-BUWA investigates how graphic representation can communicate the nuances in connotations and culture-specific contexts expressed by onomatopoeia in the Japanese language. This project exists as a body of typographic work orbiting around a conceptual variable Katakana typeface which aims at bridging sound, form and signification while being embedded in Japanese visual culture.
✷ Onomatopoeic expressions speak their meanings through both sound and form, breaking linguistic barriers and granting a strictly iconic form of communication.
→ View KACHI-BUWA Live
→ View project website
→ View project video
Apart—Together, 2020
6 images
Given the spatial and material constraints of the COVID-19 quarantine, designers Rebecca Wilkinson, Eric Francisco and myself wondered what it would look like to collaborate on a storytelling project from a distance during a time of social isolation. Taking inspiration from a point on John Baldessari’s 1970 CalArts assignment sheet, the project’s co-authors took turns photographing, writing, and combining the two to create new, unexpected meanings from these fragmentary pieces.
• Two-Colour Risograph
• Postcard edition of 180 copies
• Poster edition of 36 copies
• Postcards: 6” x 4.25”
• Poster: 11” x 17”
Vector Festival, 2020
5 images
Vector Festival* is a participatory and community-oriented platform devoted to showcasing digital and new media art practices. Reformatted to take place virtually, this year’s festival explored themes of solitude, distanced interaction, digital art-making & curation as well as emerging forms of community, solidarity and care.
Tasked with creating an identity system that expressed Jordan Shaw's concept for a site that encourages a participatory viewing experience through visitors’ real-time anonimized data visualizations, Rebecca Wilkinson and I developed a visual language that celebrates the energy generated from a collective online presence. This graphic approach is paired with an eclectic typographic treatment that honours the diversity of artistic voices featured in the festival.
*Vector Festival is a project of InterAccess, based in Toronto, Canada. Working site developed by Jordan Shaw & Marcelo Luft.
fettle Typeface, 2018 (w-i-p)
10 images
A typeface in which the design and typographic details of the letterforms are inspired by trimming and cleaning tools used in ceramics. As a display and text typeface, it is intended to complement ceramic-related photographs and content both in print and on the web. The letterforms represent the tools that are used to shape ceramic work, and concurrently, they are the tools that shape the message about that ceramic work.
• 27 Glyphs
• Bold and Regular Weight
• Type Specimen Book
• Type Specimen Posters
Richmond-Adelaide Cycle Tracks, 2019*
5 images
The data story aims to inform about the recent success of the Richmond-Adelaide Street cycle tracks in Toronto, which is measured by an increase in security and a significant growth in cycling demand. We hope it will make people who currently do not cycle reflect on the state of Toronto’s cycling infrastructure and ultimately encourage cycling as a means of transportation.
• Data story newspaper: 11"x17"
• Data intervention in the city: 30"x40" (3 panels)
* Collaboration with Tyler Job
Seeing Lines, 2018
7 images
Seeing Lines is a small collection of photographs exploring linear details found in the city of Copenhagen. The book is divided into three sections: Below, In Between and Above. They weave into each other to evoke the feeling of wandering the streets of Copenhagen, starting from looking at the ground, then looking across from you, and finally looking up to the sky.
• 44-page booklet
• Dimensions: 4.5"x7"
• Edition: 15
ANSWER, 2016
2 images
A growing distrust in the media at a time of increasing social and political tensions has left people looking for answers elsewhere. This typographic installation reflects this sentiment and contextualizes the word “ANSWER” in a larger picture, the sky of an urban landscape.
• Corrugated coroplast covered with newspaper
• Dimensions of word installation: 40’’x9’’
• Photographed on location on 35mm film
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