Concepts for Type IV Project

This is How I See the World (collaboration w/ Michael)

1) The Question: How does a person’s particular near or farsightedness affect the typographic form at different distances? Proposal: Gathering a group of people and placing type at a number of set distances. Having each person identify the affect of “poor vision” on the type at each distance, by adjusting the focus on a camera. We would then identify the amount of blur for each vision variant and match the results in photoshop to produce similar affects on other typography and imagery. The result could be represented as a poster and collected information could be organized into info-graphic material. Also an animated reconstruction of each subjects experience with the type.

2) Computer generated / randomly generated based on input to questions answered by survey by the user. Could I tie in an iPad app or iPhone app into this. Create a game or program that people could impute their data and get a letter form created for each person in their friends and family using their first initial possibly? They would then flesh out the entire alphabet and they could create words or sentences and print them off via Apple's AirPrint of send to e-mail.

3) Organic letterforms that decompose. Time-lapse or video of the process. This would take place in an aquarium with ants. The ants would. The video or time-lapse would be played backwards to make it appear as if the ants had built the typography.