Seeing and Reading

This is a project that I did earlier in the year and wasn't that pleased with it, since I didn't get to experiment much on the typography area. So I've decided to rework it and finally got around with it. This is the previous poster that I handed in - I used one of Rachel Whiteread's pattern work as a template for the poster. It was very simple, at that point I wanted to express the idea that most of Rachel Whiteread's work are about sculpture and through the repetition of pattern, somehow a 3D image is created.

This is an improvement of the poster. I played around more with the idea of legibility, but at the same time consider the visual aspect. To do this, I considered the title "I am not here" being invisible thus I decided to experiment with the idea of erasing some parts of the letters and consider at which point it will still be legible as a letter. Also 'overlaying' all texts onto the background gave another layer to the poster - making the bookshelf seemed to be popping out and the texts acts as a wallpaper.

More Development... (Final)

Typography has never been my strongest area. When it comes to inventing a new kind of type, I had to do more experimentation than usual.

By cropping off some parts of a letter - making it just enough to notice what letter it is, the notion of seeing and reading simultaneously is confronted - to which extent it is still readable as letters. The idea of positive and negative space is used to closely relate to the meaning of the title 'I am not here'