Angela Tavernese — (8 months of) TYPE INTERPRETATION | 2020.ocadu.gd

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Angela Tavernese

(8 months of) TYPE INTERPRETATION

At the beginning of this project, my vision was unclear, fast forward eight months, and I have created lettering and typographic explorations that have allowed me to construct a creative process for myself as a designer. This body of work I created contains explorations which are deeply rooted in documentation of my process. The idea of exploring unconventional handwriting tools and processes has played a significant role in my project from the early stages. It may be hard for me to pinpoint exactly the issue or problem my work is attempting to address but I would say this project demonstrates how I created a process for myself when it comes to creating typographical exploration responses to content that reflects these explorations. This process I created for myself while working through these projects has allowed me to find where my personal practice lies in the world of graphic design.

Exhibition Design

Typography

Editorial

About the designer

Hey there, Angela here! I am a Toronto based multidisciplinary designer, I've always been a part of the creative world- studying dance, music, art, and now focusing on my career in design. I am very passionate about my craft and my process and I’m always looking for new ways to challenge myself!. I enjoy working within areas of design such as - typography, editorial design, experimental typeface design, package design, and any new project/task that can allow me to create work that inspires myself, others and creates positive change.

Ragged or Justified?

Justified

TAPE LETTERFORMS
A few spreads from my process book summing up my first project. I created letterforms by making a process of taping a square and flooding the square with ink and acrylic paint (later digitizing them), creating very minimalistic counters, alluding to an emotion inspired by a quote.

INVISIBLE LABOUR
Inspired by the subversive history of women using thread as ink & wages for housework campaign. Using 70 yards of thread and 17 hours of labour to stitch the final garment. I stitched the lettering inside out to expose the labour that would usually be hidden on sewn garments.

MINI EXHIBIT
This was my mini exhibit I created at the midterm mark. The main goal for this exhibit was to make the labour and process of the projects I had completed to date be visible to the viewers.

QUARANTINE EXPERIMENTS
These few spreads encompass a few exploration created during quarantine, which allowed me to keep my momentum going. The two projects shown are 1. customizable pull tab poster 2. black thumb press inspired letterforms.

These final few spreads showcase the few booklets that came out of this body of work. I designed a Zine to give more context to my invisible labour project, a Women in typography booklet, and the TYPE book cover is my process book which encompasses everything from this thesis project!