Typologies - Travel Ephemera

I collected lots of strange pieces of ephemera and documented them using the themes of time and travel.
The ephemera was strange and unique because they were collected from different places throughout the world. I wanted to highlight the contrast between the pieces which ranged from supermarket receipts to cigar boxes.

I used a LATCH system within my work on this project. I found this system really interesting because it was a valuable way to collect and show all the data.

My LATCH systems were:

LOCATION – Arrangements of selected pieces from the collection, and representations of these on a map to show their origin.

ALPHABET – Alphabet was taken using letters represented on some of the selected tickets. There were only certain letters represented.

TIME – Time was related to certain times printed on some of the pieces of ephemera.

COLOUR – Colour was represented using all the collections. I grouped them into collections with the same colour. I even did some sections to represent the colours with more than one colour on them, and called them the mixed colours.

HIERACHY – I related hierarchy to each piece of the collection that had pricing printed on them. I then separated them into the highest and lowest according to price.

My final idea within this project was to create some postcards using certain aspects of the collections to show travel and where they were collected from, I really enjoyed the diversity of the project and would like to extend my collection for the future, because there was so much information and data to talk about with everyday collected pieces of ephemera.