Memories Diptych
Project Details
- Student Designer
- 4011 Advanced Typography
- Length: 5 weeks
Project Structure and Goals
As the final project for 4011 Advanced Typography, this project was meant as an exploration of using type to communicate the personal feelings of memories. The project revolved around choosing two memories (and two bodies of secondary text) that work side by side to communicate as a single story in the form of a diptych.
Idea Development
I initially had trouble deciding which memories I wanted to focus on, and for our first group critique, I ended up fully fleshing out and presenting two alternating directions. My first direction involved the last day of high school before my town shut down to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, combined with the death of my mother, which coincidentally happened on the same day. My second direction revolved around two very different emotional states seeing fireflies at different points in my life. My classmates encouraged me to go with the first direction because I seemed more invested in it, despite it being a more emotional and more risky topic.
Poster Iterations
My first iteration involved my secondary text, taken from tarot associations, being placed into card-like rectangles that opposed the written memories. I gave each memory text an introductory paragraph at the top of its page.
I then removed the card rectangles and moved the secondary text to the background, to act more as a textural element than something that could be read clearly. For the final version, the introductory paragraphs would end up being removed.
Final Posters
