Design Translation · 2011

Pixel Painting

Inspired by Dentsu London's iPad Light Painting, Cameron and I experimented with motion and typography.

Medium
Long exposure photography
Moved
An iPod Touch, in six rows
Typeface
Akzidenz Grotesk
Collaborator
Cameron Zotter
Featured at
Quipsologies, No. 167
A long exposure of white and blue light on black, forming a letter A out of horizontal bands inside a curved trail

Method

An iPod Touch, moved in six rows against videos of Akzidenz Grotesk

We moved an iPod Touch in six rows, countering videos displaying sections of Akzidenz Grotesk. A long exposure photograph captured each session, and every letterform came out different.

Collaborated with Cameron Zotter, Featured at Quipsologies, No. 167

Letterforms

Every letterform came out different

The alphabet from A to Z in six rows, each letter built from grey bands of light on black
Twelve rows of light-painted letters in cream, pink and navy on a dark ground, set as a block of text

Two posters of the letterforms.

Six rows of blue light on black, a block on the left and a second block on the right
Six rows of blue light on black, stacked in one block
Six short bands of blue light on black, stepping down the frame
Two blocks of blue light rows on black, the left one fuller than the right

Performances

One long exposure photograph for each session

Twenty-two black and white portraits of people holding a phone, each beside the striped light letterform from a session
A dim room with a black and white portrait of a man holding a phone, projected beside his striped light letterform, and people standing in the background

Closing

No two performances are the same.

2011/03/04

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