When The Body Speaks
Year 2022
Print / Typography
107 x 167mm, 148.5 x 210mm, 190 x 250mm, 1210 x 297 mm.
Completed as a Final Year Project of the BA in Design Communication Level 3 Programme at LASALLE, exhibited in “Proximate”, Lasalle Show 2022.
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Publication was exhibited at The State of Print by Fable Studio at Singapore National Design Centre, 2022[︎︎︎]
When The Body Speaks is an interdisciplinary project that seeks to embody humanistic qualities in letterforms, using our body as a medium to explore the possibility of new type expressions through the visual interpretation of dance movements and creating the awareness to bring type back to its core which is our body — an organic entity.
Through the method of light painting photography, 7 dancers were gathered to perform a 30-second choreography of their own, with no restrictions in the choice of music they would move to and the freedom to express themselves. Picking out a wide range of variations of letterforms from the dancers’ light paintings would examine the parallel between dance and type, with the main objective of showing how expressive our bodies can be by telling the dancers’ story through dance movements and how that could influence type, which is a carrier of expression.
Click to watch the video & view the project website.
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Through the method of light painting photography, 7 dancers were gathered to perform a 30-second choreography of their own, with no restrictions in the choice of music they would move to and the freedom to express themselves. Picking out a wide range of variations of letterforms from the dancers’ light paintings would examine the parallel between dance and type, with the main objective of showing how expressive our bodies can be by telling the dancers’ story through dance movements and how that could influence type, which is a carrier of expression.
Click to watch the video & view the project website.
