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International Society of typographic designers. 

A typographic interpretation of the events around "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess.
Screenprinted and laser cut perspex sheets.
 
Burgess created a complex and conflicted picture of how Art and real life interact; the aim of the work produced in response the ‘Eyewitness’ project is to question our relationship with Art and how Art can act as a lens with which we can view ourselves and society as a whole, to ban it is to ban debate and potentially human resolve.
Using the content of two articles written by Burgess as an eyewitness account, the project is to communicate the lasting controversy, which surrounds A Clockwork Orange. The articles provide the main typographic content for the work but iconic moments from the books are used as a way of contextualising Burgess’ reflections.
A Clockwork Orange has polarised audiences for decades. It’s content has been deemed inaccessible because of it’s extreme use of Nadsat slang, making it all the more intriguing as the content for a typography project. Oppositional forces, good vs evil, fiction vs reality, utopia vs dystopia, optimistic vs pessimistic are referenced in contrasting colours and approaches, formal structures are distrupted and subverted in order to present a visual undercurrent and unsettle the viewer.

This work was awarded a PASS from ISTD 2016.