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Typographic reaction to a contemporary phenomenon through a series of Posters | Part 1
A Project that I did in my Typography course on my exchange at H.I.T, Israel.
We were each given a random link to any website, or artist or a video to which we were supposed to react to, through typography. We were also told to pick a medium. I chose to do it through a exhibit of a series of Posters.
I was given an Israeli-born artist called Absalon (original name- Meir Eshel). He designed inhabitation cells (“Cellules d’habitation“) which are six living pods for a single person.
The “cellules” are his last and most famous work: conceived for himself, each one was to be placed in a public space of a different city (Paris, Tokyo, New York, Tel Aviv, Zurich and Frankfurt). The minimal living units were thought to let the artist embrace a nomadic lifestyle, and at the same time an ascetic and isolated existence, protected from an oppressive society. They were also an element of protest. In an interview for the Cellules exhibition he stated: ‘These homes will be a means of resistance to a society that keeps me from becoming what I must become’. His scultptures were stark white and completely minimalistic, often being referred to as mute sculptures.
Project Guide : Oded Ezer
Images of Absalon's Inhabitation cells
I went through a process where I read and tried to decode the meaning of his work and started creating parallel concepts. Then I intervened with type by extracting latin letterforms from his architectural models.
The core concept of Absalon's work
Poster Series #1
Seeing Type in the architecture
To continue to the next part of the project, Series #2 and Series #3 go to the following links,
Here's a sneak peek of the Final display
For a better understanding of the entire process refer to the following link,
http://issuu.com/noopurrrrchoksiiiii/docs/absalon_final_presentation_21may201
http://issuu.com/noopurrrrchoksiiiii/docs/absalon_final_presentation_21may201
