homonyms - work in progress

Good Impressions:

"Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours" -Swedish proverb

Small, intimate letterpressed cards (not much bigger than a calling card) with 4 word phrases taken from the above Swedish proverb. The blank cards are meant for giver to write a note to the recipient, and kept as a keepsake by the recipient.

bluepoolroad via Felt & Wire

I imagine the cards being blind debossed (example above) with the phrases. A possible border or edge treatment might be considered as well.

Just Vandy via Felt & Wire

I see the size being similar to these "just a thought mini notes". 32 2"x3.5" notes for $12.

By using a blind deboss, the message would keep it's intimate and subtle quality while not taking away from the hand-written note to the recipient. Additionally I see the texture of the deboss as something that can be rubbed—like worry stones. Something to keep idle hands busy during times of needed encouragement. A colored edge would allow the card to be easily found in a wallet.

pecha kucha recap

Last week, I gave an in-progress presentation in the style of Pecha Kucha. I looked at it as another project brief—a different way to get my ideas across. Pecha Kucha is a trademarked presentation style with 20 slides, and 20 seconds per slide. I quickly found I had much more I wanted to talk about than the 6.666 minutes allotted. On top of the time restriction, I also volunteered to speak in front of visiting designer, and new Pentagram partner, Eddie Opara. I was the first to present in front of him, and I tried my best to remain casual and confident. After all, I had to come across as the expect of wordplay. He was familiar with Pentagram designer, Harry Pearce's book and recommended to listen to podcast(?) of him speaking about his book.

After the presentation, I am unsure of some of the "nyms" I have chosen, and am looking to revise a few of them. I have to keep reminding myself I can continue pursuing these aspects of wordplay in my future work.

antonyms - work in progress

Consonants & Vowels, December 2010

homoynms - work in progress

Alpha-Mail, started in December 2010

antonyms - inspiration

Constellation & Co. via Felt & Wire

Starshaped Press via Felt & Wire

Dolce Press via

antonyms

Going back to Sesame Street for some inspiration on opposites.

project brief revision

After a lot of research into wordplay and realizing the incredible broad topic that it covers, I thought it best to narrow my thesis a bit. I will be focusing on "-nym's". I will be looking at 5 different "-nym" categories, responding to these through design.

1. homonyms (sounds the same, but are spelled differently. have different meanings)
2. antonyms (either of a pair of words that have opposite meanings)
3. synonyms (one of two words that have the same meaning)
4. bacronyms (the reverse of producing an acronym; taking a word which already exists and creating a phrase using the letters of the word as initials)
5. oronyms (a string of words which is homophonic with another string of words)

two other possible topics:
1. heteronyms (one of two words that have the same spelling, but different meaning, and sometimes different pronunciation too)
2. autoantonyms (a word that can take two opposite meanings)

rebus cont'd

My dad said he stood in a record store staring at this album cover repeating "stone-bun" over and over, until he finally realized it says "rock and roll".

colloquialisms/idioms

A colloquialism is a that is common in everyday, unconstrained conversation, rather than in formal speech, academic writing, or paralinguistics.

1. characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal. 2. involving or using conversation.

Some examples of informal colloquialisms can include words (such as "y'all" or "gonna" or "wanna"), phrases (such as "old as the hills" and "graveyard dead"), or sometimes even an entire aphorism ("There's more than one way to skin a cat").

Colloquialisms my grandparents said:
"I wouldn't wear that to a dog fight if I knew both dogs."
"She came right off the spool"
"Drier than the heart of a haystack"
"Fat and sassy"
"Nervous as a whore in church"