#typeinspace

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Type in Space workshop

Alphatecture: Create a 3D freestanding typographic structure Using either triangle, circle, square, line shapes Size has to be 1 metre.

Chosen word: Unstable Chosen Letter: Q Creating a wide O shape in the letter Q with a wide roll of cartridge paper, with a tiny wire in place of the line shape holding the bigger structure up, indicating the unstable nature.

Typographic Intervention -Adapt a word spatially Chosen word: Assemble Assembling the fruit in a basket through carving letters into the fruit.

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Type in space introduction

The spatial

Audra Hubbel, Letters at Large

Sagmeister and Walsh, plays with idea of making an illusion

Shannon Etner, about context and narrative behind type, looking at scale

Axel Peemoeller, what is illegible and functional, applying type to objects in a space, interruption within urban environment

The Sculptural

Rob Lorenson, contrast between materiality and form, uses heavyweight material

Jack Featherstone, looks at individual letterforms, key shapes within text, becomes something abstract

Andrew Bryon, furniture became letterforms, letters in the sky (suspended) something interactive and playful

Aldo Van Eyck, letters from playground

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- Inhabiting space with relevant typography, the word we created out of paper as a group, ‘suspend’, can on be read when seen from above.