Mathematica bus shelter poster
This was a fun project. It was challenging because it required me to work on a macro level, which I'd never done before with typography; I find that typography is a learning curve of mine. The prompt was to find a historical art movement and or exhibition that impacted the design community throughout the eras. I’m a fan of Ray and Charles Eames and their approach to design. I did my first type specimen on them, and always seem to look for inspiration from their designs. I thought I'd bring them back around in my academic career. As a result, I chose Mathematica: A World of Numbers and Beyond. Eames has had not only a hand in graphic design but in every aspect of life, that involves design which some would never have thought it would be involved in. Math and Science.
Sketches
Through my research and sketch iterations, I never really made the connection between math, science, and design. It was fun to try and figure out how to translate math with the infamous Eames, and my design to represent them. I also did a lot of research on old math textbooks which I found to be more interesting than what math textbooks are today. Also, I must be frank, Math was not my strongest subject either. It has been a while since I’ve taken a math class, it was a bit of a refresher to research what I learned in the past. It was also refreshing to learn about theories I didn’t know about, for example, the Power of Ten and or the Möbius strip. I really played with the mathematic golden rule diagram, hexagons, and multiplication tables. I kept with geometric shapes to align with how linear math and science represent. For the Type treatment, I replaced the majority of a letter with numbers and glyphs. I wanted to connect all their art pieces within the exhibition as if they all connected themselves to relate to their argument that math is everywhere and everything surrounded by us.
