This works are from CSLA Graduate Thesis Exhibition 2009. I'm just displaying 3 images that I found interesting as it relates to typography. These images are from graduate student, Yi Lu.
The Ming chair and the Hui Pattern are typeface compositions created from one single image. For example, in the Ming chair picture, all the shapes of each letter of the alphabet come from the shape of the chair, and the shapes of each letter in the Hui pattern picture are all related to the hui. When I was looking at these pictures, I was trying to analyze how each letter came to be an alphabet from one single overall composition. One has to appreciate how difficult it is to come out with a whole alphabet by using exactly the same structure.
This is cool. I like the Ming Chair one the best...however, I'm not sure I like the fact that the "a" and the "e" are lowercase letters while the others are capitals. I think the artist could have easily came up with a capital A and E. I wonder what their reasoning for this was?
ReplyDeleteHaving taken the Typography class, we can really understanding the difficulty of creating letter forms. I too have an appreciation for this process!
I like them too. And I totally understand the difficulty of creating letter forms...especially by using chinese stoke...
ReplyDeleteLike the ming chair alphabet the colors seem calm and melow but that chair looks like a pain to sit on for a while.
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