Day 4: Type Play

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Experimenting with fonts and layouts was an interesting process. I was able to be playful with words and strengthen the mean of each word by portraying it in a communicative way. "Busy" is situated amongst repetitions of itself, "thin" uses thin lines and narrow spacing between each letter and "pinched" is situated between two fingers that are pressing together against the P. I would have liked to have used more colour, but I feel it would be most appropriate when using adjectives that are emotions or temperatures. I was surprised to find that so much planning was put into the presentation of words e.g. colour, type face, size, layout and context. I have a new found respect for typography as it's own art form. 

3DD: Spaghetti Structure

This project involved using the idea generation exercise to produce a number of designs for a structure made from 20 pieces of spaghetti and a glue gun, which could hold 3 plastic balls. The sketches seen here are my initial ideas of which the 5th one I base my final structure on. The structure managed to hold each ball, however, would not stay upright for long without blue tac. I also wish I used more spaghetti to strengthen it's aesthetic value.

Tine Bech Lecture: Playful Interaction (26.09.13)

 ("Catch Me Now by Tine Bech, Kinetica Art Fair, 2011" - found on http://www.leoalmanac.org)

I attended a lecture by Tine Bech where she spoke about the nature of her work, in further preparation for my essay. She is a dutch, freelance artist that is particularly interested in technology in art, creating interactive installations, such as, Catch Me Now, Tracking You and Light Pot. Bech brought up an interesting point about how interactive arts concept can be shaped by its receiver. For example, in Catch Me Now children ended up making games around the installation. It was basically an empty space with a spotlight in it and once someone entered it it would expand, change colour and then move to another area of the room. It acted as an invitation to play. 

During the course of this lecture an interesting quote was introduced to me:

"People tend to forget that play is serious." - David Hockney (1999:133)