Day 4448: Alphabet in Motion & China marker drawings.

"Collapse": digital collage.

 

  

Want music?

    

Click:  Marilyn McCoo, One Less Bell to Answer.

  

 

 

2GN2S

Pop-Up Letters Set the ‘Alphabet in Motion’ 

All images courtesy of Kelli Anderson,

This month, Anderson launches a remarkable, five-years-in-the-making project called called Alphabet in Motion: How Letters Get Their Shape, an ABC pop-up book about typography. She spent thousands of hours researching design archives and meticulously engineering kinetic and three-dimensional letters to show how type styles have evolved through the ages.

“If you look carefully at letters, you can see a secret history of the world—from the Bronze Age to the Information Age,” Anderson says. “But because many of these methods, tools, and machines are now obsolete, this history is challenging to follow. Alphabet in Motion leverages tactile, interactive features to help clarify how letters have transformed alongside technological upheavals and shifting aesthetic moods.

”The project is composed of two conjoined, detachable books. The pop-up section includes an interactive, seven-segment display cover that changes from A to Z, 17 moveable paper elements, and hands-on activities. The accompanying 128-page section contains an essay diving into the history and concept of each pop-up, plus 300 color images from the history of type design.

by Robert Oriol

Anderson’s book is already a crowdfunded hit; the project is successfully funded, but there are still four weeks remaining to chip in and order your copy. Follow along with her work on Instagram, and you might also enjoy another of her projects, This Book Is a Camera.

Mesmerizing Alphabetical Animations by Mr. Kaplin

2017 rewind

"In last Sunday's Mixed Media Play class, 

2017

I did some quick demo sketches on large paper  ...

This one started out as abstract shapes until I saw a face.

I liked the above sketch as is, so I brought it home and worked digitally.

Today, I took another demo sketch 

 this one with white acrylic on yellow paper ...

and again, played with it digitally."

(I think it might be an acquired taste?)

 

  

 

A  4+ minute video, Ladybug & snails, here

 

 

 

  

 

Just because ...

 

American Herring Gull

 

 

Wednesday's Smiles ...