105907: Eye Witness

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Brief

Translate a written, first person account of a significant event, into a typographic experience that is designed as a site-specific installation in a gallery of your choice.

Produce an item (either physical or digital) that the gallery can sell to visitors celebrating/recording the event. This should include the eye-witness account as a more traditionally set piece of long copy, although the ‘rules of readability’ will depend on the format chosen.

The intent of the project is to communicate the direct experience of the event.

Concept/Solution

The Zodiac is an infamous serial killer operating in America in the late 1960's. He attempted to murder 7, and killed 5. One of the two surviving victims, Bryan Hartnell was interviewed in hospital after his stabbing attack.

The transcribed interview has been translated into a walk-through exhibition using only typography. The exhibition aims to educate a new audience and type-lovers on this tragic event.

Expressive typography and various typographic treatments create a gesture along the exhibition walls, evoking the emotional stress and trauma in which Hartnell suffered. The layout of the exhibition and the path it forces you to take is metaphorical for being at the mercy of the Zodiac, in addition to mimicing the clinical environment of the hospital.

105907 is the police case number of the incident and also the name of the exhibition. The accompanying booklet to be sold to visitors contains the interview as properly set body copy, and also incorporates extracts from the real police report.