Final project Conceptualization

Project proposal and initial sketches.

For the final project I would like to work with Transparencies. Integrating transparency and text into a functional working object is the ideal outcome.

The initial notion for the project revolved around a cube, with reference to the Rubik’s cube 6 sides and 9 sections on each side creating 54 sections all together.

The content of the sections; the type and typefaces.

Some of the sections would be left blank, some filled with text and others filled with color trying not to create too much of a visually cluttered object.

There were so many possibilities for the content; one was to take the top 10 words associated with computational arts and randomly place them in selected sections of the box with different treatments applied to each word. Ex: media, interactive, design, technology, sound, digital, graphics, typography…

Another possibility for the content of the text is a little more elaborate.

I would take the top 4 religions of the world, each one corresponding to a side and bring them together within the cube; Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Judaism. Using text taken from each of there sacred books and there associated language, Hebrew, Arabic Urdu, and English or Latin, the text would be fashioned in the nature a collage method.

Materials:

Initially I had like the flexibility of thicker acetate to print on, but upon further experimentation, the idea did not work. Printing on plastics such as a think sheet of plexiglass gives the cube a stronger structural basis. One way to transfer the type onto the actual object would be done by gel transference; other forms are currently being looked into.

Size:

The size of the object is being experimented upon, if the object is too small them the information and message placed on it might be transformed into a box of clutter. If the object is too big then, then the too much white space might create a sense of detachment.

Illumination of the actual cube is also a possibility. To project onto the other surfaces and then having individuals interact with the projected image would perhaps create an alluring end product.