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32 Immaterial Textiles
Saddle stitch booklet with 32 close up scans of my clothes with a removable dust jacket. Laser print on translucent vellum, cotton thread, vintage secondhand lace tablecloth.
- I was interested in the tactility of clothing, and the way the scans reproduced almost abstract visual textures without tactile feeling. The dust jacket, in contrast, is a physical truly tactile textile.
- I chose a translucent paperstock to reenforce the “ghostly-ness” of the scans
- The removable dust jacket’s semi-hidden inner spread has the printed vellum sewn in and features an index to all the pages, the outside of the dust jacket and the inner pages of the booklet is devoid of text.
- The left opening flap of the dust jacket features an abstracted “lace” pattern constructed from the number 32, the same 32 wordmark is not revealed until the right back flap where the title and description is. The 32 wordmark was designed with simple geometric lines and when overlapped reproduces a lace-like floral pattern. The lines also parallels the lines formed by the cotton thread.
Notes on “Camp” by Susan Sontag
Stab-stitched 72 page book featuring Sontag’s iconic text on “Camp.” Front and back covers printed on light pink cardstock with punched corners, inner pages printed on dusty pink paper, sleeve of decorative floral paper, binded together with polyester ribbon.
- Sontag’s text explores the idea of “Camp” especially as it relates to notions of artifice, aesthetics, taste, and gender.
- I’m interested in the idea of form over content, or rather form as content. I wanted to be respectful of Sontag’s text while pushing stylization and ornamentation.
- The book is near-tabloid size as I wanted it to be floppy and almost humerous. Its size also contrasts the small body text. I wanted the form of the book to be a little bit mischievous. As such, the book is stab bound and refuses to fully lay flat.
- The decorative sleeve helps keep one’s place in the book and also prioritize decoration over the title of the book.
- The main body text is set conservatively in a strict box. Minor quirks appear as the initals of each paragraph are sized larger and in a more florid typeface. Quotations marks, when they appear, are set comically large.
- As Sontag goes into a numbered list, the numbers are exagerated and float around the main body text. As the numbered list goes on, ornamental typographical glyphs are introduced and eventually overwhelm the page.
- Sontag includes quotes from Oscar Wilde throughout her text. These quotes are set on their own pages and appear with oversized quotations marks. Each of these Wilde quotes are also set in a different typeface each time they appear (9 different typefaces in total). The particular typefaces chosen embody elements of camp (ie. kitschy, overly decorative, stereotypical, overly serious, “low-taste”)
Precious Clover
Modular Typeface
- Precious Clover is a modular typeface constructed from circles and the negative space formed by circles
- I’m interested in readability/legibility and wanted to create a typeface that was decorative but still mostly readable.
- Precious Clover reflects my interest in artifice and the relationship artifice has with nature. I believe in artifice and overt-stylization as a form of authenticity. As such, Previous Clover is sincere, a little bit cloying, but genuinely and unabashedly pretty.
Hypothetical Exhibition Posters
Typeset in Google Docs
- Minimal posters created in google docs.
- I’m interested in limitations and pushing boundaries desipte restriction.
- These poster play with “roundness” and the audience-performer relationship implied by the title.
- I wanted to embrace the medium and have the posters look not too perfect though still labored over and visually striking.
I’ll Meet You at Twilight
Photo Booklet
- Quick photo booklet project featuring a digitalized handlettered cover. I didn’t want the design to overwhelm the photos, so I kept it minimal and just mysterious enough to provide context.
Hypothetical Book Cover Designs
Cover spread prototypes
- Given the context of Black Mountain College, these book cover primarily aim to embody and explore ideas of community. They feature bold experimental typography, and often take inspiration from the literal shape of a mountain or a mound.
- I wanted to slightly challenge traditional hierarchies of text and expectations of what a front/back cover/binding could look like.
Found Poster Redesign
Redesign of a Yale research study poster
Miscellaneous Work
Including type exercises, hypotheical work, and work that has actually been used