“S&S” Letterforms represent concept of marriage
Type patterns, framed art prints, Designer: Shawn Randall
(click on image for larger view of all three)
Recently I was asked to submit work for a local gallery show. My wife and I are coming up on our 8th wedding anniversary and so I decided to focus on the concept of Marraige in this triptic piece entitled “S&S”.
Each piece is framed in a solid wood black frame and was printed on a fine art velvet paper. The two smaller pieces measure 15 inches square and the center piece measures approx. 23 inches square.
Each piece was created from a single letter/symbol: S, &, S (Mine and my wife’s initials with an “&” in the middle). The letter was repeated, rotated, mirrored and composed by hand. Each piece has a short description of its content as well as of its concept:
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I guess this is better late than never! Just over a month ago I had the opportunity to attend “Presenting Data and Information: A One-Day Course Taught By Edward Tufte.”
I absorbed a lot in this one day course and came back excited to apply some of these techniques into some of the different applications in which we present data and information here at TONIC.
I was lucky enough to pick up a print of a statistical graph poster of Napoleon’s march to Moscow. As described on Tufte’s website: “Probably the best statistical graphic ever drawn, this map by Charles Joseph Minard portrays the losses suffered by Napoleon’s army in the Russian campaign of 1812. Beginning at the Polish-Russian border, the thick band shows the size of the army at each position. The path of Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow in the bitterly cold winter is depicted by the dark lower band, which is tied to temperature and time scales.
I also jumped at some signed press sheets from some of Edward’s books. Check them out below:
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