Drawing inspiration from the 1968 issues of the ™ Research Archive, I was inspired to create a potential cover that challenges and experiments the way the world interacts and considers typography.
In general, I wanted to photograph the typographic composition that I create. Focusing on experimental ways of creating type, I wanted to experiment with creating my own potato stamp and create the most precise line of a san serif character that I possibly can then using that as a stamp and photographing the potato with ink on it and the paper that was stamped. In this way, the viewer is able to see the process of creation.
Something I also wanted to consider was experimenting with nature and typography. An idea I had was to paste large characters to thin cardboard/cardstock and then cut it out with an exacto knife. Then, I wanted to try and paste pieces of bark to their cardstock so that the letters actually look as if they were carved from the bark of a tree. Then I wanted to either paste these bark letters to the tree bark and see how it photographs or to set the characters in the grass and play with the idea that letters that look so sharp are unnatural in an organic environment
Another route I am considering is manipulating the characters by printing them on paper and cutting, crumpling, or experimenting with water elements. I believe the water component could be an interesting statement about how the things that we create interact with the natural world. I am also considering printing things onto transparent paper and play with layering and what new shapes that are created within a composition.
