Ink Calendar
Oscar Diaz has designed a calendar that uses the capillary action of ink spreading across paper to display the date. Each month, a bottle of coloured ink spreads across a sheet of paper embossed with numbers, colouring them in as it goes.
Ink Calendar makes use of the timed pace of the ink spreading on the paper to indicate time. The ink is absorbed slowly, and the numbers in the calendar are ‘printed ‘ daily. One a day, they are filled with ink until the end of the month. The calendar enhances the perception of time passing and not only signaling it. The aim of the project is to address our senses, rather than the logical and conscious brain.
The ink colors are based on a spectrum, which relate to a “color temperature scale”, each month having a color related to our perception of the weather on that month. The colors range from dark blue in December to three shades of green in spring or orange and red in the summer.
Recycled Type
Character takes dismantled and discarded signs, which have been part of the cityscape for years, even decades, and gives them a new life by replacing the neon tubes with LEDs.
Alida Sayer
Sayer's work is inspired by the world of illustrative and experimental typography and gives a different dimension to illustration and visual design.
"Much of my work begins as hand-drawn images or letter-pressed prints which I usually then scan and manipulate digitally. I also often work across several sheets of semi-transparent paper to plan out or structure work in order to create a relationship between layers of information. I also use a lot of paper cutting techniques, which I do by hand with a scalpel. The forms are created very much instinctively. Although I do have a general idea of how I want it to look, much of the layered cutting grows naturally with each piece informing the position of the next.
The prevalence of mundane digital fonts is forcing designers to cast their nets wider in order to create typography with a unique voice. This includes experimenting with more unusual or 'analogue' materials and processes before re-incorporating them into a format suitable for dissemination across the rapidly advancing digital communications channels. I feel that this is a very exciting time for design, where traditional craft methods are not only being revisited but are also combined with complex digital processes in order to create truly innovative and astounding, yet still very tactile, work. The key to truly forward thinking design is to harness both the capabilities of digital technology and the important lessons we learn from traditional materials and processes and combine them using our own unique creative personality. Computers are tools to be used. They do not create beautiful design - people do.
I have always tended to stick to a more monochrome colour palette, I suspect due to the influence of my photographer father who works predominantly using black and white film. I adore colour but often find it difficult to use in my own work. Perhaps it is because I always end up thinking about it far too much! I often find that the times when I use colour most effectively are those when it appears accidentally."
Find more on her blog.
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