Dominique FallaDVA Candidate Tactile Typography in the New Aesthetic

Supervisors:Dr. Donal Fitzpatrick (Theory) Dr. Dale Patterson (Visual)

Confirmation presentation, 17 October, 2012

Baby and mother [image: New Mom] Braille [image: Wikipedia] (top) Patting dog [image: Parenting Magazine]

Apple iPad Apple trackpad (top) Microsoft mouse (bottom)

Smart Phones Tablets (top) Computers (bottom)

Tactile Typography

Three Stages of Research1. Designer/Artist2. Tactile Typography3. Tactile Typography in the New Aesthetic

Research Question #1Is there a third, distinct group of visual artists who inhabit the gap between graphic designers and fine artists?

Designer/Artists.

Beci Orpin Fleur Harris (top) Tuesday Bassen (bottom)

Stefan Sagmeister Anna Garforth (top) Marian Bantjes (bottom)

Flat White Spacesvinyl on MDF board

Research Question #2In an age where an abundance of digital technology and mass production has instigated a return to craft and the handmade, is there a place for “Tactile Typography”

Fresh Crisp Morningsvinyl on paper

Shared Vision laser cut paper (top)

Colourblind Test buttons on canvas (bottom)

Ideas are 1% inspiration99% perspiration 8000 map pins and foam core

Griffith 40th Anniversary Food typographymade from edible gum paste

Cut vinyl70th Birthday Invite

Dominic Le Hair Yulia Brodskaya (top) Evelin Kasikov (bottom)

Evelin Kasikov CMYK Embroidery.

Relax & Unwind Nails and coloured thread

I could do anything ...If only I could decide what it wasembroidery thread and nails

“We Are all a Part of the Same Thing” “Relax & Unwind” (top) “I could do Anything” (bottom)

Pinterest www.pinterest.com

Shared 22,204 times from one source on Tumblr. (typeworship.com)

“Some people have a lot of patience” “I wish I had your patience” (top) “I also wish I had her patience” (bottom)

Goodbye HelveticaPin and string wall installation. 4.5m x 2.4m

I cheated on you once ...paint on concrete

Foam core giant a and vinyl window installation

Photos of the installation by Camille Santiago

“Reach out and touch it”

Haphazard and eclecticspread from Novum Magazine [Nov 2012]

String Art

Sorting buttons Sanding a piece of Goodbye Helvetica (top) Gluing a typographic cake (bottom)

Digital aesthetic reproduced in analogue, from “Goodbye Helvetica”

Cross Stitched QR Code Pixel Portrait [Dulux paint swatches] (top) Beautiful Bitmaps “Q” [ribbon] (bottom)

Douglas Coupland voxel sculpture Harvey Nicols ad (top) Voxelated Water in New York (bottom)

Mitsubai Tokyo Za Bor Architects (top) Geometric Marilyn (bottom)

Research Question #3Is there a place for Tactile Typography within the emerging “New Aesthetic” Movement?

Space Invaders graffiti Design Milk building (top) Interface pillow (bottom)

Uniate: data-bending Thomas Squire: glitch Iggy (top) James Hatley: animated gif (bottom)

Automatic light painting Michael Kosmicki: glitch book covers (top) Sound Waveform bracelet (bottom)

Philip Stearns Glitch Textiles

The work might also be about touch itself, for example:

• touch a nerve• like a slap in the face• handy to have around• rub you up the wrong way• get under your skin• put your finger on the problem• hands tied behind your back• out of your hands• a little heavy-handed.

Touch

Final body of work will be tactile, typographic and presented in a gallery in a way that encourages touch.

• large format art book• new aesthetic furniture• new aesthetic furnishings.

The Future?

In Conclusion

Heat-fused beads