Director Anne H. Berry, Professor Sharon Oiga, Visiting Associate Professor Lisa Armstrong’s digital media class, and Design alumni Astha Thakkar and Guy Villa Jr. were selected to exhibit their typographic work at this year’s Typeforce.
Typeforce is a showcase of type-based art based in Chicago, centered around community and a love of type. The exhibition, housed at Co-Prosperity, will run through February 15. Congratulations to all exhibitors!
Work on display includes:
Deconstruction for Reconstruction, part of 2125 Matriarchal Design Futures, by Sharon Oiga and Guy Villa Jr. Deconstruction for Reconstruction reflects on the sociopolitical ideology and practice of taking things down and reconstituting select parts, which had a significant role in leading to the prosperous, inclusive time of this first quarter of the twenty-second century.
Shared: Womanist Design Principles, part of 2125 Matriarchal Design Futures, by Anne H. Berry. Shared: Womanist Design Principles imagines a future where conversations about Black women are framed within the context of collective joy, exuberance, celebration.
Alphabet Loops, by Lisa Armstrong’s digital media class. Alphabet Loops is a collaborative project that explores processes, materials, and sequencing. Each individual was assigned two letters to create short typographically driven animations for. Participants include Ami Arcos, Daniel Castillejo, Frankie Salud, Issa Dizon, Jiaqi Wu, Leanna Ho, Lisa Armstrong, Man Binh Diep, MK Ko, Pearl Lomax, Phoebe Milles, Rasheed Hudson, and William Hug.
Typographic Snowflakes, by Astha Thakkar and the students of Savannah College of Art and Design. Each student was tasked to design a snowflake using the letters of their first and last name.
