This is the final visual archive book for my graveyard collection. I chose to keep the images as the central focus of the book, and use them to show the unique characteristics of graveyards in the Czech Republic. The text is obituaries from people that are buried in these graveyards. i wanted these texts to be related but not specific to the images that i included in the book. I still have to print and bind it, but here are some spreads to show my progress.
3 finished folio pieces (and 1 detail)
These are a little sample of the strange imagery i have found in the graveyards around the czech republic. Graveyards are extremely interesting places here. The strange headstones, statues, portraits, and tombs makes them very eclectic, giving each gravesite an individuality. There is a wide range of typographic treatments to the tombs, graves, and headstones that also distinguishes one from the next. Perhaps the strangest of the things there are the porcelain portraits of the dead. They are set into the headstones and from a distance strangely float over the graves surrounded in white with gold decoration.
For this archive, i plan to make a book that draws out these pecularities to look at graveyards as interesting places without playing to heavily on the cliches that are so strongly tied to them. I have a ton of pictures to go through and find those unique qualities.
the spiritual music inspired this.
some more type work, its getting closer.
This is my large poster for the advanced studio show at home in raleigh. Its hard to see the details, and i dont even know how its going to end up printing out... but putting it all together was actually really good. I am pretty certain everyone had a good time in studio that day and it was fun to goof around with everyone making the class photos. It was a good semester with very interesting and challenging projects. Its crazy how fast time like this goes.
It is really inspiring to see the work of a designer who worked for formal beauty. In looking at the posters of Zdeněk Ziegler you get a sense of how he just feels it...or how did he put it..? "There's something in the air." Something along those lines... His posters for Czech and American films are beautifully made without losing a sense of experimentation or freedom in making. His posters also capture a sensitivity to the artistic quality of designing and typesetting, and I think a little of that won't hurt anybody. Such great stuff. AND! It's all hand made...makes me want to unplug the apple for a while.
letter acrobatics... still in progress... roughly 2 weeks to go
These are my final....(ahem, other than acutally making) versions of the Velvet Revolution characters. These would all be handmade here in the CZ, and they would be collected materials that would make up the clothing. The stitching would be exposed, and give a materiality and texture to the fronts of each. There would be consistency in how some of the more specfic characters such as Václav Havel, Jan Palach (illustrated here), Jan Opeltal, would be made in multiple. Ideally the demonstrators would change and never look the same, this would make for a collective group of all different figures, giving each a personality. The Revolution was about the masses of people that came together, and by varying the look of each figure they would begin to echo that important role of the common people.
The backs would be made up of portions of original posters, silkscreened or printed on the fabric. The full poster would be represented on the back of the information card that would accompany each figure...err (ugh) doll. The intent of these characters would be to represent them in a way that would be inviting to a 'souvenir shopper' and teach them something important about the recent history of Prague and the Czech Republic.
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