'Library' - James Peel
Is a collection of translations of the word 'love' in 700 different languages. The piece also features reference numbers with a world map so that the viewer is able to see where the word comes from acorss the world. 3 elements - the archive, index and a map.
Experimental Jetset
Is a small, independant Amsterdam based Graphic Design studio. They focus on small printed matter and site specific installations - describing methodology as "turning language into objects." The studio has an online archive, like a taxonomy of their work. It features a varied amount of work that creates an index - arranged in a democratic grid, each project has equal importance, nothing stands out - they are all the same, meaning all their work is to high standards.
'Mmm - skyscaper, I love you : a typographic journal of New York' created in 1997 by Karl Hyde and John Warwicker. The journal features heavy use of layers and overlays to create feelings of energy and emotion, it makes the reader 'feel' as they respond to the visuals, they aren't concerned with langauge and written narratives they can see this through the drawings. The journal is the opposite to a modernist journal there is no structure, grid or importance of everything, the journal is post-modern abstraction of feelings.
'J Street Project' - Susan Hiller 2002 - 2005
Based around Berlin a street called 'Judenstrasse' meaning 'Jew's Street.' The project follows a democratic grid structure, each image is the same size and scale. (Similar to the typology of the Beckers) All the photographs taken (303 images) fit the wall, there are two images left over - making the viewer question whether this is an ongoing archive. Hiller added a map as an index of the writing - the same set of elements as James Peel.
'Crossing Paths' - Vivian Maier
Maier took photographs of things she saw and liked in New York, she deliberately placed herself in the space and time of the photograph. By doing this Maier created a narrative of the image, turning it into an event so the photograph eventualizes the place - makes it more interesting. Maier also liked to create reflected images by placing herself in the background using glass as a reflective surface in order to super impose herself into an imaginary stack of layers.
'Wanderlust' - Joseph Cornell
A fabric book showing structured grids, images and objects combining as composites (creating repetition), sequence of images as narratives and concertina's.
Ghostsigns
These are faded remains of advertising from the late Victorian era up until the 50's and 60's. The project has been created so that we can see how they used to look when they were first painted - using light projections to see them today. The project itself is research lead - looking into the companies and finding visual references so that reconstructions can be made and projected onto the buildings to see what the signs looked like 80 years ago.
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Keywords:
Situations / narratives
Advertising / images
Signs / texts
Fringes / edges
Palimpsests / opposistions
Way finding / navigation
branding / inconpgraphy
movement / stillness
movement / typologies
inside / outside
frames / scale
image / text
