https://stephaniemoore.org Stephanie Moore Tue, 28 Nov 2023 02:04:27 +0000 https://stephaniemoore.org en https://stephaniemoore.org/Index Thu, 01 Jun 2023 23:07:06 +0000 Stephanie Moore https://stephaniemoore.org/Index https://stephaniemoore.org/Lucid-Journal Wed, 31 May 2023 22:30:24 +0000 Stephanie Moore https://stephaniemoore.org/Lucid-Journal .image-gallery div div div img { border: 1px solid #ddd; } .image-gallery div div div img { padding: 0px; } p { margin-top: 1rem; } Lucid Journal Editorial DesignProfessional work, University of California, Irvine2020—present Lucid was founded in 2019 at the University of California, Irvine, and published its first issue a few months after the COVID lockdown began. Our original mission was to amplify the voices of first-generation students, but since the changes wrought on education by COVID, Lucid’s ambitions have grown. As co-founder Dr. Rachael Collins puts it, Lucid is now “dedicated to amplifying the work of everyone working in higher education to dismantle systems of oppression and create a liberatory future for education,” with a focus on modeling a new pedagogy of writing that centers student experience and expression rather than inducting students into an “impersonal” institutional style.<img width="1384" height="1107" width_o="1384" height_o="1107" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a081f2b2c44c18118f48008382152ac5ef9151903ff944ff4de11e922cba21cc/lucid_landingpage.jpg" data-mid="212503751" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a081f2b2c44c18118f48008382152ac5ef9151903ff944ff4de11e922cba21cc/lucid_landingpage.jpg" />(drawing by Erik Perez) Lucid was originally published as a PDF flipbook on Issuu but has since become a website. Issue #1: Borders &amp; Belonging Lucid began as a showcase for first-generation student work in UC Irvine’s composition program. Co-founder Dr. Rachael Collins was trying some innovative stuff in her classes and the work coming out of them was special, so she wanted to show other teachers the results of these teaching methods and to promote and advocate for her students, most of whom were the first in their families to go to college and didn’t get a lot of support from the university. The journal developed conceptual ambitions beyond just publishing good student work. Many students wrote about their status as outsiders or newcomers to higher education, or to the United States, or to both, and this mattered for the design; we wanted each piece to have its own visual “voice” while maintaining a consistent design language across the issue, and we wanted the designs to celebrate each piece and each writer. The issue needed to be colorful and playful and suggestive of a vibrant world full of varied experience, and the layout of each piece needed to be evidence of a loving, handmade attention to its contents. To organize this variety, we used some beautiful drawings by our cover artist Mayra Sierra as a unifying motif. Her work was youthful and playful but with a utopian-futurist vibe that exactly matched our vision. In her line drawings—I started thinking of them as “doodle futurism”—past, present and possible realities all crowded into one lively imaginative space . . . and if that didn’t sum up what we wanted Lucid to be, what would? Mayra’s drawings became a recurring motif that spoke to each writer’s work without flattening the individuality of their voices. <img width="2606" height="1686" width_o="2606" height_o="1686" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/803ed53c1bee75eace73ab3265de9d10c089fe6f7a79e2150b9397fe332da352/issue1_bryan.jpg" data-mid="212856910" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/803ed53c1bee75eace73ab3265de9d10c089fe6f7a79e2150b9397fe332da352/issue1_bryan.jpg" /> <img width="2606" height="1686" width_o="2606" height_o="1686" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/28dcdc0bcd5d62cd2a9484f837f2576a893e541e53e6102e69caefa8e776f852/issue1_leslie4.jpg" data-mid="212856916" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/28dcdc0bcd5d62cd2a9484f837f2576a893e541e53e6102e69caefa8e776f852/issue1_leslie4.jpg" /> <img width="2606" height="1686" width_o="2606" height_o="1686" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/049a149567cbe4301706e2ca0d7589e3e70cc95ed493f68e0a522c7085b23639/issue1_mariel1.jpg" data-mid="212855497" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/049a149567cbe4301706e2ca0d7589e3e70cc95ed493f68e0a522c7085b23639/issue1_mariel1.jpg" /> <img width="2606" height="1686" width_o="2606" height_o="1686" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/960425386839ed71b035a516386dc4e4f26c9246df94dd1ecbef2e22eadba523/issue1_cameron1.jpg" data-mid="212856908" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/960425386839ed71b035a516386dc4e4f26c9246df94dd1ecbef2e22eadba523/issue1_cameron1.jpg" /> Tracy Lam’s “A Lifelong Struggle”Tracy Lam’s piece is an ambitious, genre-experimental piece that called for some idiosyncratic design solutions. For instance, it uses photographs and their captions in narratively inventive ways, and I wanted to highlight that inventiveness but still play along with the performance of journalistic detachment that made the captions so funny. <img width="2606" height="1686" width_o="2606" height_o="1686" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9cde6e97b8ba423edc2d4bb5e0637c6e30fb844a15cd30265fe8fa8f34525d47/issue1_tracy1.jpg" data-mid="212855249" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9cde6e97b8ba423edc2d4bb5e0637c6e30fb844a15cd30265fe8fa8f34525d47/issue1_tracy1.jpg" /> <img width="2606" height="1686" width_o="2606" height_o="1686" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9907aa27a212282019b787d4f942a16e57d787b5e7320ca3c3963ddad54343c3/issue1_tracy2.jpg" data-mid="212855250" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9907aa27a212282019b787d4f942a16e57d787b5e7320ca3c3963ddad54343c3/issue1_tracy2.jpg" /> <img width="2606" height="1686" width_o="2606" height_o="1686" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de7c510e7a72cc66bb071a916f9bb4569a645915c3e303ebab713f6d63112e09/issue1_tracy7.jpg" data-mid="212856639" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/de7c510e7a72cc66bb071a916f9bb4569a645915c3e303ebab713f6d63112e09/issue1_tracy7.jpg" /> <img width="2606" height="1686" width_o="2606" height_o="1686" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/473a6b22e58b3d8a1bf94c4a62f8a118517f83f5ea16c534fc7edcab0e0debbd/issue1_tracy3.jpg" data-mid="212855251" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/473a6b22e58b3d8a1bf94c4a62f8a118517f83f5ea16c534fc7edcab0e0debbd/issue1_tracy3.jpg" /> There were also several moments when the text took an unusual form, for instance when a poem suddenly intervenes, or when Tracy inserts a letter she wrote to her brother or a screenshotted text message to her roommate. There was no way to just drop this material into a grid and call it a day. <img width="2606" height="1686" width_o="2606" height_o="1686" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/85ded540827b34450d7b21fdc106b46ca21c6a982d1b2fa58d9a254613c33ddd/issue1_tracy4.jpg" data-mid="212855484" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/85ded540827b34450d7b21fdc106b46ca21c6a982d1b2fa58d9a254613c33ddd/issue1_tracy4.jpg" /> <img width="2606" height="1686" width_o="2606" height_o="1686" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/27a4199ed6150afef10cbbf99ee13cad8e7c0f4a49e9cc218099d5c35c6d1f02/issue1_tracy6.jpg" data-mid="212855478" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/27a4199ed6150afef10cbbf99ee13cad8e7c0f4a49e9cc218099d5c35c6d1f02/issue1_tracy6.jpg" /> <img width="2606" height="1686" width_o="2606" height_o="1686" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e42ee7eef142dd6987f9a23635c881bd75113bf78dc7af9a1c795c6f42a05c4e/issue1_tracy8.jpg" data-mid="212856641" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e42ee7eef142dd6987f9a23635c881bd75113bf78dc7af9a1c795c6f42a05c4e/issue1_tracy8.jpg" /> <img width="2606" height="1686" width_o="2606" height_o="1686" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/47f3fc22e769212294ea9d284e5e9faefe01eb15625e0d8e5e551d1b957efac3/issue1_tracy5.jpg" data-mid="212855483" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/47f3fc22e769212294ea9d284e5e9faefe01eb15625e0d8e5e551d1b957efac3/issue1_tracy5.jpg" /> The poem forms a pivot point in the piece, so visually I treated it that way, as a bridge reaching across from the first half of the essay to the second. I used the letter in a similar way. In both cases, I made these generic departures typographically disinct but related to the main text, and spatially set off but still clearly positioned in the order of reading. I wanted them to feel like departures or interruptions, but not digressions—changes in pace and tone but not outside the flow of the narrative. “Interview with Mariel Calva” The piece submitted by Mariel Calva bore the marks of a college writing assignment more than the others, so we thought it would shine more if readers knew the details of that assignment. We framed the piece with an interview Mariel’s teacher conducted with her about the experiences behind her essay, an authoethnography centered on her Mexican mother’s largely untreated chronic migraines. We also asked Mariel to make some notes in the essay’s margins explaining her thoughts, identifying writing choices she might make differently now, and expanding on points she didn’t have the space to go into at the time. We laid out the essay with its original MLA formatting and Mariel’s amazing marginal notes alongside the interview and allowed each to elucidate the other: <img width="2606" height="1686" width_o="2606" height_o="1686" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e0d6a2267be97c4cf013e08067fb7faa99909a3c63349497128d0beb126fe406/issue1_mariel3.jpg" data-mid="212855493" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e0d6a2267be97c4cf013e08067fb7faa99909a3c63349497128d0beb126fe406/issue1_mariel3.jpg" /> <img width="2606" height="1686" width_o="2606" height_o="1686" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/01c2b298c94204ad4b21e4b219a89cf6b0999c2f42c20003a723c204af8fd2c7/issue1_mariel4.jpg" data-mid="212855495" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/01c2b298c94204ad4b21e4b219a89cf6b0999c2f42c20003a723c204af8fd2c7/issue1_mariel4.jpg" /> This was the most overtly pedagogical piece in the issue, since it foregrounded the process and not just the results of a composition assignment. Before I started designing, I worried that the interview might come across as an attempt to control Mariel’s work too much, but in the final piece, even the pedagogical case-study aspect fell into the background and we were left with a portrait of a really impressive, thoughtful person who had a lot to say to the UC Irvine community, particularly to faculty and administrators who neither understand nor know how to ask where their students are coming from.&nbsp; Issue #3: The Worldbuilding ProjectRachael stepped aside for issue #2, which was edited by co-founder Scott Lerner. When we returned for issue #3, Rachael had new ideas she wanted to try: instead of making a traditional journal with its emphasis on “literariness” and merit-determined exclusivity, this issue would be a purely descriptive assemblage of daily experience: interviews, audio field recordings, photographs, napkin drawings, written descriptions of things or places or events, autoethnographic research—anything that illuminated some corner of the student’s world. Rachael called it “the worldbuilding project.” The task was to figure out how we would present all of this heterogeneous material—audio, video, images, text. Initially we considered setting the issue up as a tagged and searchable archive, not as a linearly organized publication; but we had to delay this idea until issue #4. In a PDF journal format with embedded media, the question became how we would realize the concept of “worldbuilding” through visual design. How would we build that world visually? I wanted to make the whole issue feel like an interior or geographic space, so I hit on the idea of a graphic “horizon line” that would run from page to page. Later, I was drawn to maps and aerial photography. Both ideas survive in the final design, although the map motif took over as the theme of southern California geography emerged: how where the students are from shapes their identities, how they often feel they must disavow their place of origin to belong at school; one piece focused on a student’s grueling commute to Irvine from the South Bay of Los Angeles. The final designs for several pieces incorporate actual maps of the Los Angeles area to show visually how geography affects the students’ daily lives. <img width="2606" height="1686" width_o="2606" height_o="1686" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/039c1584e2382292bf82cbfd517e8feb14a6ea49b513ccc7833dc3a962d1a19e/issue3_mercedes.jpg" data-mid="212855517" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/039c1584e2382292bf82cbfd517e8feb14a6ea49b513ccc7833dc3a962d1a19e/issue3_mercedes.jpg" /> <img width="2606" height="1686" width_o="2606" height_o="1686" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e2632ee0e3cbcca8f3cd19785b1b109ed6fa76c645e4df5185a5cfc26a49c70d/issue3_alejandro.jpg" data-mid="212855510" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e2632ee0e3cbcca8f3cd19785b1b109ed6fa76c645e4df5185a5cfc26a49c70d/issue3_alejandro.jpg" /> <img width="2606" height="1686" width_o="2606" height_o="1686" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c197f23cb862bd3aa877c3a98eb8f65c7faba023c9cdb577cdd0625324ba429/issue3_christopher.jpg" data-mid="212855511" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8c197f23cb862bd3aa877c3a98eb8f65c7faba023c9cdb577cdd0625324ba429/issue3_christopher.jpg" /> <img width="2606" height="1686" width_o="2606" height_o="1686" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f6e0cd4cc94f1f53ebc27f34eb23dbf2e0888766db6af60537da133ba2c4d409/issue3_joy.jpg" data-mid="212855516" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f6e0cd4cc94f1f53ebc27f34eb23dbf2e0888766db6af60537da133ba2c4d409/issue3_joy.jpg" /> <img width="2606" height="1686" width_o="2606" height_o="1686" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9b3d9d5dd7eb2ebcabb54262d2778e470598b3999ebd4a0e23e74380a1144aef/dayana.jpg" data-mid="212807493" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9b3d9d5dd7eb2ebcabb54262d2778e470598b3999ebd4a0e23e74380a1144aef/dayana.jpg" /> <img width="2606" height="1686" width_o="2606" height_o="1686" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/94f9ea19d63ef2e899c4545f1dfb4e9817a3256c53e262939e577472fbe81985/issue3_helena.jpg" data-mid="212855515" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/94f9ea19d63ef2e899c4545f1dfb4e9817a3256c53e262939e577472fbe81985/issue3_helena.jpg" /> <img width="2606" height="1686" width_o="2606" height_o="1686" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b001e3116832af8ad173f4f319c45342b464c3e22a2cbb30dda009d5d182134e/issue3_cindy.jpg" data-mid="212855513" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b001e3116832af8ad173f4f319c45342b464c3e22a2cbb30dda009d5d182134e/issue3_cindy.jpg" /> <img width="2606" height="1686" width_o="2606" height_o="1686" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/770748639005f9af8d82d24cba7fb35fcecc81fced6670adf9c9a4db9db05e19/issue3_deena.jpg" data-mid="212856298" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/770748639005f9af8d82d24cba7fb35fcecc81fced6670adf9c9a4db9db05e19/issue3_deena.jpg" /> Issue #4: Educate! Emancipate!The theme of our fourth issue was system-affected students, and for the first time we commissioned a few pieces—in this case, by formerly incarcerated graduate students. (Their campus organization, Underground Scholars, brought a lot of additional submissions to us.) The format of the PDF journal had been limiting us for a while so we used issue #4 to transition to a proper website. Among other things, it would display much better on mobile devices, be more accessible to users looking for specific content (via tags), and allow us to to create more interconnections between pieces. I designed and built the site on Webflow, and we welcomed a few undergraduate design interns onto the team. A principle of the journal’s design that remained central to its mission was the avoidance of uniformity; we still wanted each piece to have its own visual voice. The nature of the medium, however, made this more difficult. We did not want the pieces to feel like “content” dropped into a pre-built container, so in addition to the unique layout each piece received, we created color palettes that changed from piece to piece. <img width="2040" height="1650" width_o="2040" height_o="1650" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2ce4995bc20330b4fb2ce5b3bb13ae0076a884fbb7b1ad84b7bc354b62096836/issue4_corbin1.jpg" data-mid="212869748" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2ce4995bc20330b4fb2ce5b3bb13ae0076a884fbb7b1ad84b7bc354b62096836/issue4_corbin1.jpg" /> <img width="2040" height="1650" width_o="2040" height_o="1650" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/63ac0d07cd0a6df10b92486b5722bd31d97140f7d0151f43ef4938c8af343d2a/issue4_corbin2.jpg" data-mid="212869749" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/63ac0d07cd0a6df10b92486b5722bd31d97140f7d0151f43ef4938c8af343d2a/issue4_corbin2.jpg" /> <img width="2040" height="1650" width_o="2040" height_o="1650" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/667c2cdc755f0f298740e7a7d7af1c1d88c557d47c69697e67ef13bce573336d/issue4_john1.jpg" data-mid="212869750" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/667c2cdc755f0f298740e7a7d7af1c1d88c557d47c69697e67ef13bce573336d/issue4_john1.jpg" /> <img width="2040" height="1650" width_o="2040" height_o="1650" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e2b818b2b3196dcff54cca61cde2e6dd2dd440b1422c4abceab64bee89adbc37/issue4_john2.jpg" data-mid="212869751" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e2b818b2b3196dcff54cca61cde2e6dd2dd440b1422c4abceab64bee89adbc37/issue4_john2.jpg" /> Martha Trujillo’s “My Foolish Life: Diaries of a Girl”Martha Trujillo’s piece was a selected transcript of several years’ worth of journals she’d kept throughout middle and high school. We thought it important to convey the physicality of these journals and we wanted the design to suggest handmade-ness, but at the same time we didn’t want to create a false presence or intimacy. So rather than affecting a handmade quality in the design itself, for instance by setting the transcript in a handwriting font, we included high-res scans of the pages and typeset the transcript in a monospace font that suggested an exhibit of archival materials. (We even redacted some of the text and blacked out parts of the page images.) Some of the pages were displayed as a jumble, echoing the organization of the journals; others we made browsable as if in a microfiche viewer. <img width="2040" height="1650" width_o="2040" height_o="1650" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/82500f2290b4fe3ccab65fb85233ce3ab35f3f13266672ef35d98c9101613075/issue4_martha1.jpg" data-mid="212855533" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/82500f2290b4fe3ccab65fb85233ce3ab35f3f13266672ef35d98c9101613075/issue4_martha1.jpg" /> <img width="2040" height="1650" width_o="2040" height_o="1650" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d061e4fd5e17b0beeb09d1607da56996a92d4e8c66caa04b164c4ac98eae825d/issue4_martha2.jpg" data-mid="212855534" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d061e4fd5e17b0beeb09d1607da56996a92d4e8c66caa04b164c4ac98eae825d/issue4_martha2.jpg" /> <img width="2040" height="1650" width_o="2040" height_o="1650" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f8ebdec3e1702843e19b9c1f8b0783004f3454b20111e676c884af64b8d9beed/issue4_martha4.jpg" data-mid="212855526" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f8ebdec3e1702843e19b9c1f8b0783004f3454b20111e676c884af64b8d9beed/issue4_martha4.jpg" /> <img width="2040" height="1650" width_o="2040" height_o="1650" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eff492e74a3fb4848eb4725827faf64d97ce5aee87ad987f3cadf3bd3b8f5fc8/issue4_martha3.jpg" data-mid="212855537" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eff492e74a3fb4848eb4725827faf64d97ce5aee87ad987f3cadf3bd3b8f5fc8/issue4_martha3.jpg" /> https://stephaniemoore.org/Lucid-Logotype Tue, 28 Nov 2023 02:04:27 +0000 Stephanie Moore https://stephaniemoore.org/Lucid-Logotype Lucid Logotype Logo designProfessional work, University of California, Irvine2023 Logotype for the relaunch of Lucid Journal.<img width="4678" height="2425" width_o="4678" height_o="2425" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/94bfeb2c3d3799a29238c7750c3c21816eca83bd20043ad15fe4ff3a090d7833/logotype_process.jpg" data-mid="198585803" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/94bfeb2c3d3799a29238c7750c3c21816eca83bd20043ad15fe4ff3a090d7833/logotype_process.jpg" />Lucid is devoted to education activism and the amplification of marginalized student voices, so we wanted a logo that evoked protest typography both past and present. We also wanted it to suggest heterogeneity and non-conformity. Process Our visual inspiration consisted mainly of: 1) hip hop logos, and 2) feminist, anti-racist and anti-war protest signs, posters, and publications. (We spent hours with Silas Munroe’s Strikethrough!: Typographic Messages of Protest.) <img width="5100" height="6600" width_o="5100" height_o="6600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c1ce5df298608024c44a1c4550b6761d8e1009658c710cc0ac8acc1fae267d9/logotype_process2.jpg" data-mid="198014030" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1c1ce5df298608024c44a1c4550b6761d8e1009658c710cc0ac8acc1fae267d9/logotype_process2.jpg" />To get some initial ideas flowing, I made mockups using typefaces by other designers. I also drew a few of my own, by hand and digitally. We settled on four favorites, then generated a list of qualities and associations that drew us to the ones we’d chosen. <img width="1500" height="1632" width_o="1500" height_o="1632" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a9879806f90b9758d514c2a6fb6059504530827ac02c6745a0679cf0aea85723/logotype_process.jpg" data-mid="212863815" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a9879806f90b9758d514c2a6fb6059504530827ac02c6745a0679cf0aea85723/logotype_process.jpg" />We liked the feel of the mockup using Steve Mehallo’s Alta California the best, so I generated more ideas based on the mismatched/handmade concept of that typeface. I printed out some letters, cut them up, mixed and matched them, and photographed them. I vectorized a few and did some more mixing and matching and rearranging . . . <img width="5100" height="3895" width_o="5100" height_o="3895" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dce0295ffc14a7c6301ae8215a138215fa0c14d626f66f9d8487309eacaaa04b/logotype_process6.jpg" data-mid="198014154" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dce0295ffc14a7c6301ae8215a138215fa0c14d626f66f9d8487309eacaaa04b/logotype_process6.jpg" />. . . and didn’t end up using any of them! We kept coming back to the proportions and arrangements of the letters as set in Alta California.What I liked in the Alta California mockup was the relationship of the L to the tall skinny U, and their position relative to the wider, squatter I and D. I really wanted to preserve the shape of the baseline created by those relationships. I drew a few versions in Robofont . . . <img width="5100" height="5221" width_o="5100" height_o="5221" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f18beaef45b22e49f9a2ad5cde33783426cf7e7e7a00c258eb7c4fdffd33025/logotype_process7.jpg" data-mid="198014028" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6f18beaef45b22e49f9a2ad5cde33783426cf7e7e7a00c258eb7c4fdffd33025/logotype_process7.jpg" />. . . then recreated one of the designs using the photographed printed letters so the type wouldn’t look too mechanical. <img width="1500" height="1176" width_o="1500" height_o="1176" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c09bffc75708ed100680153f2b057ce90b76f3b7b5fedaa5aeefda4dee16ab79/logotype_process8.jpg" data-mid="212860463" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c09bffc75708ed100680153f2b057ce90b76f3b7b5fedaa5aeefda4dee16ab79/logotype_process8.jpg" />The challenge in adapting the Alta California letters was to preserve the uneven weight and spacing (which harkens back to the protest posters) but keep the overall design balanced. The I and D were too heavy; we needed some counterbalancing weight at the beginning of the word, so I drew a new L. To make the logotype read better at small sizes, I reduced the contrast and simplified some of the letterforms. (To close up some negative space, I made the C dangle off the serif of the I, which we thought was appropriate for a publication full of stories about hanging on by your fingernails.) Here are some adorable tote bags designed by Autumn Hoff: <img width="3024" height="2362" width_o="3024" height_o="2362" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/824767725bcb42bdb1d174b741bc63c139da9dd9b091f28a1c876aa6cbaec66a/IMG_6462.jpeg" data-mid="198586101" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/824767725bcb42bdb1d174b741bc63c139da9dd9b091f28a1c876aa6cbaec66a/IMG_6462.jpeg" /> The logo also appears on our new business cards, and of course on our website. <img width="4000" height="2668" width_o="4000" height_o="2668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bebba999a43e267bbbd54f50800223ff03dead82e5d7de61c7aa14c280a74207/Untitled-1.jpg" data-mid="198586505" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bebba999a43e267bbbd54f50800223ff03dead82e5d7de61c7aa14c280a74207/Untitled-1.jpg" /> https://stephaniemoore.org/Sibylline Wed, 31 May 2023 22:50:06 +0000 Stephanie Moore https://stephaniemoore.org/Sibylline Sibylline Type Design Student work, Type@Cooper Extended Program, Terms 2 &amp; 3 2023 I began this text typeface for use in an edition of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner I was designing and illustrating. It still has &nbsp;ways to go. As I refine the design and expand the styles and weights, I’m trying to make a type family specially suited for poetry, particularly multi-lingual poetry. Included here are slides from a presentation I gave at the end of the T@C extended program, plus a few specimen materials. <img width="1650" height="1319" width_o="1650" height_o="1319" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b41e5b7eb4f381d01fe7071b7d376b31f289f661264a3fac21b9fb8529745d21/specimen_for_website.jpg" data-mid="212450677" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b41e5b7eb4f381d01fe7071b7d376b31f289f661264a3fac21b9fb8529745d21/specimen_for_website.jpg" /> <img width="1650" height="1319" width_o="1650" height_o="1319" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/829f7123211136456b1c91caaf433457da18e4d63a72a8a15a585aa32bcdf73a/specimen_for_website15.jpg" data-mid="212450675" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/829f7123211136456b1c91caaf433457da18e4d63a72a8a15a585aa32bcdf73a/specimen_for_website15.jpg" /> <img width="1650" height="1319" width_o="1650" height_o="1319" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3fb248256215fe93788d0f2c5dadbef4c53d02631b3b5a0903b4ed6049e212b4/specimen_for_website16.jpg" data-mid="212450668" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3fb248256215fe93788d0f2c5dadbef4c53d02631b3b5a0903b4ed6049e212b4/specimen_for_website16.jpg" /> <img width="1650" height="1319" width_o="1650" height_o="1319" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/77753af214b481a61be4eeba8462779ab14e5fe170584d17c4b52fcce1e9d88a/specimen_for_website17.jpg" data-mid="212450669" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/77753af214b481a61be4eeba8462779ab14e5fe170584d17c4b52fcce1e9d88a/specimen_for_website17.jpg" /> <img width="1650" height="1319" width_o="1650" height_o="1319" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c6d301d0623934803c0c78a9b4101006fc3db031340500ac0430a249eb144eb/specimen_for_website18.jpg" data-mid="212450670" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5c6d301d0623934803c0c78a9b4101006fc3db031340500ac0430a249eb144eb/specimen_for_website18.jpg" /> <img width="1650" height="1319" width_o="1650" height_o="1319" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d4308c8144fc22e5b41fb15df1854f529174734a7c4dd58ac52d38d44f0ba814/specimen_for_website19.jpg" data-mid="212450671" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d4308c8144fc22e5b41fb15df1854f529174734a7c4dd58ac52d38d44f0ba814/specimen_for_website19.jpg" /> <img width="1650" height="1319" width_o="1650" height_o="1319" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/63dcef7f60d72db1709ddf59b3c1265d05be10126c7033d71c75f464ec35c05c/specimen_for_website21.jpg" data-mid="212450673" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/63dcef7f60d72db1709ddf59b3c1265d05be10126c7033d71c75f464ec35c05c/specimen_for_website21.jpg" /> <img width="1650" height="1319" width_o="1650" height_o="1319" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9ffd8997dcf5b4baac421b0e95bf7be1850695021873114dce87565b68b95a05/specimen_for_website20.jpg" data-mid="212450672" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9ffd8997dcf5b4baac421b0e95bf7be1850695021873114dce87565b68b95a05/specimen_for_website20.jpg" /> Here are a 22”x44” specimen poster and four pages of a “yearbook” for our T@C extended program session: <img width="2000" height="3230" width_o="2000" height_o="3230" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66bd823a779e0f32196c708b33eb6cc3948e2833174af01ab95bbc41f20aa477/moore_exhibitionposter_2023.jpg" data-mid="212503449" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/66bd823a779e0f32196c708b33eb6cc3948e2833174af01ab95bbc41f20aa477/moore_exhibitionposter_2023.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="2862" width_o="2000" height_o="2862" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a07c37d108c1d6ca07a8c543ac9df27a1f01a476e613d99667b17d4725d6a906/TypeCooper_Yearbook.jpg" data-mid="212503453" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a07c37d108c1d6ca07a8c543ac9df27a1f01a476e613d99667b17d4725d6a906/TypeCooper_Yearbook.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="2863" width_o="2000" height_o="2863" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5122ee162293cbf639fa901d4677d8043738e49a82baeb331ddcbe9bee09a28f/TypeCooper_Yearbook2.jpg" data-mid="212503454" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5122ee162293cbf639fa901d4677d8043738e49a82baeb331ddcbe9bee09a28f/TypeCooper_Yearbook2.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="2861" width_o="2000" height_o="2861" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4a60c9c0011c191af4c37a6d4a878ec5ccea5bce8053f28f2bc404a3801eebbf/TypeCooper_Yearbook3.jpg" data-mid="212503455" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4a60c9c0011c191af4c37a6d4a878ec5ccea5bce8053f28f2bc404a3801eebbf/TypeCooper_Yearbook3.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="2862" width_o="2000" height_o="2862" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4455871a82e3eefee12eb9540165ce88b36a04bc211f7771571d814c2130089c/TypeCooper_Yearbook4.jpg" data-mid="212503457" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4455871a82e3eefee12eb9540165ce88b36a04bc211f7771571d814c2130089c/TypeCooper_Yearbook4.jpg" /> https://stephaniemoore.org/The-Thing Wed, 31 May 2023 22:42:50 +0000 Stephanie Moore https://stephaniemoore.org/The-Thing The Thing Type DesignPersonal work2022 If you've ever driven within a hundred miles of Tuscon, Arizona, you have seen the contemporary descendents of an old handpainted billboard for "The Thing." What is it, you ask? Take exit 322 off I-10 and pay a dollar to find out. The new billboards aren't as cool as the old one on which I based this spooooooky display face. <img width="1035" height="557" width_o="1035" height_o="557" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1d5cdc2fd4d4c3a13ad6ec591de0eaee7220e8696855706897cb70251a2208f7/the_thing_billboard.jpg" data-mid="212503764" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1d5cdc2fd4d4c3a13ad6ec591de0eaee7220e8696855706897cb70251a2208f7/the_thing_billboard.jpg" />(If anyone knows who painted this sign, drop me a line. One name I’ve run across is George Borum but I can’t confirm it.) <img width="1650" height="1150" width_o="1650" height_o="1150" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b64e352701b1b20b08393841717db192751b010e31ef1da1b4dda0d1b8971538/the_thing_specimen.jpg" data-mid="212503925" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b64e352701b1b20b08393841717db192751b010e31ef1da1b4dda0d1b8971538/the_thing_specimen.jpg" /> <img width="1650" height="1319" width_o="1650" height_o="1319" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/19f5a4580f5d55cbd4f8a3d8896b78771279e86776bccd37b152f2535c8240b6/the_thing_specimen2.jpg" data-mid="212503926" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/19f5a4580f5d55cbd4f8a3d8896b78771279e86776bccd37b152f2535c8240b6/the_thing_specimen2.jpg" /> <img width="1650" height="942" width_o="1650" height_o="942" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/86bf8d34118837ab210fd830051ff7eaf66b4356b3c6eca83bcb66f99a483d53/the_thing_specimen3.jpg" data-mid="212503927" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/86bf8d34118837ab210fd830051ff7eaf66b4356b3c6eca83bcb66f99a483d53/the_thing_specimen3.jpg" /> <img width="1650" height="1150" width_o="1650" height_o="1150" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4a6a1cc08831afe2f03c74af6c804090d7ebc708e7d2518bcbd35701c06a9f47/the_thing_specimen7.jpg" data-mid="212503929" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4a6a1cc08831afe2f03c74af6c804090d7ebc708e7d2518bcbd35701c06a9f47/the_thing_specimen7.jpg" /> <img width="1650" height="1150" width_o="1650" height_o="1150" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b7d8c2b37775a5a601fc3ff62c9722549d20411ff199ad6ea4860fbca23e6c3f/the_thing_specimen8.jpg" data-mid="212503930" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b7d8c2b37775a5a601fc3ff62c9722549d20411ff199ad6ea4860fbca23e6c3f/the_thing_specimen8.jpg" /> Supports 317 languages, believe it or not: <img width="1650" height="942" width_o="1650" height_o="942" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1aaa2391acae644dd711c5d54d4950c877c61a7354af2ff54d78cac3054fcb4c/the_thing_specimen5.jpg" data-mid="212503928" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1aaa2391acae644dd711c5d54d4950c877c61a7354af2ff54d78cac3054fcb4c/the_thing_specimen5.jpg" /> ProcessThe original letters, designed only in relation to each other, did not want to form an evenly spaceable system. I also wanted the letters to have their weight at the top and get lighter as they went down, and not every letter lends itself to this contrast model (especially N, which I redrew many times). <img width="1650" height="1150" width_o="1650" height_o="1150" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b1127844fbca4712da4ee03fd07685aee6f076d90347c4346af926e9bbff595/the_thing_specimen9.jpg" data-mid="212503931" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5b1127844fbca4712da4ee03fd07685aee6f076d90347c4346af926e9bbff595/the_thing_specimen9.jpg" /> My solution was to create a grid based on O and H and fit the other letters to it. The grid keeps the weight in the right places and enables even spacing. To create that trapezoidal shape without introducing huge amounts of white space at the bottom, only the left side is slanted and the right side is nearly vertical (although the angles around it keep it from&nbsp;feeling&nbsp; upright). <img width="1650" height="942" width_o="1650" height_o="942" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/04cef523912a9c4cac57cb38a601c5d1dca54f2bb178a0bf9e34ad6b5a87815b/the_thing_specimen11.jpg" data-mid="212503933" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/04cef523912a9c4cac57cb38a601c5d1dca54f2bb178a0bf9e34ad6b5a87815b/the_thing_specimen11.jpg" /> <img width="1650" height="942" width_o="1650" height_o="942" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6518ddbfabb94826e9b05c1e0457bffaa131d2b9d5473509ccaf3bdd9e88dcf2/the_thing_specimen10.jpg" data-mid="212503932" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6518ddbfabb94826e9b05c1e0457bffaa131d2b9d5473509ccaf3bdd9e88dcf2/the_thing_specimen10.jpg" /> (Originally, I wasn’t going to distinguish the round from the straight letters, but the B looked so weird that I added some larger-radius curves. It changes the character of the typeface but in a good way, I think.) https://stephaniemoore.org/Rime-of-the-Ancient-Mariner Wed, 31 May 2023 22:17:46 +0000 Stephanie Moore https://stephaniemoore.org/Rime-of-the-Ancient-Mariner Rime of the Ancient Mariner Book Design, Illustration, LetteringStudent work, RISD Continuing Ed, Graphic Design Final Studio2023 I’m designing and illustrating a book of Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner, for which I’m using my own typeface, Sibylline. The concept of the book is the poem’s many textual layers—multiple published versions, handwritten revisions, a later marginal gloss added by the author, not to mention its framing narrative and a detour into dramatic dialogue —and how they come together with the poem’s imagery of veiled and distorted perception. For the main text, I’m using the one from Coleridge’s 1817 collection Sibylline Leaves; textual variants from the 1798 and 1800 Lyrical Ballads are hand-lettered underneath the typeset text, as is the marginal gloss, which tries to cram itself into the spurious “spaces” created by overlapping layers of color.(This is a work in progress. The final version won’t have type occluded by the spine, for instance!) <img width="2896" height="2317" width_o="2896" height_o="2317" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca6b30586dab826d01493f5573a2b650469a8e9cea4bce31423f0d22a560db46/mariner1.jpg" data-mid="212439697" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ca6b30586dab826d01493f5573a2b650469a8e9cea4bce31423f0d22a560db46/mariner1.jpg" /> <img width="2896" height="2317" width_o="2896" height_o="2317" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b56bb181e8316cf5b147f118a8ebd01094b1dc96bb68edfdceb0b67ef7f3ad41/mariner2.jpg" data-mid="212439698" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b56bb181e8316cf5b147f118a8ebd01094b1dc96bb68edfdceb0b67ef7f3ad41/mariner2.jpg" /> <img width="2896" height="2317" width_o="2896" height_o="2317" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e8a6ace7f29145e3ce7a351a6ab7627254d7d250b39c984743c8386cea27c938/mariner3.jpg" data-mid="212439699" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e8a6ace7f29145e3ce7a351a6ab7627254d7d250b39c984743c8386cea27c938/mariner3.jpg" /> <img width="2896" height="2317" width_o="2896" height_o="2317" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/907d16fc97eb4ee9a47f9503d2ffcb62b93a33a4858c09b4d5a8f1ae0e7a1add/mariner4.jpg" data-mid="212439700" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/907d16fc97eb4ee9a47f9503d2ffcb62b93a33a4858c09b4d5a8f1ae0e7a1add/mariner4.jpg" /> <img width="2896" height="2317" width_o="2896" height_o="2317" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a75f29c95153ffdb95c21c5ea82ceb8836cf3b39ae53b54c4e1b27eda4c25667/mariner6.jpg" data-mid="212439701" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a75f29c95153ffdb95c21c5ea82ceb8836cf3b39ae53b54c4e1b27eda4c25667/mariner6.jpg" /> <img width="2896" height="2317" width_o="2896" height_o="2317" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b0c9260b044cfa4a876b5ee6ee3d4efac6268234bb922af237ffd1867d9c0f0c/mariner7.jpg" data-mid="212439702" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b0c9260b044cfa4a876b5ee6ee3d4efac6268234bb922af237ffd1867d9c0f0c/mariner7.jpg" /> <img width="2896" height="2317" width_o="2896" height_o="2317" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a4eaa6e43b406ac6824baaa34dce64120a30a0441fbd9c4e0fd628e8733682de/mariner8.jpg" data-mid="212439703" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a4eaa6e43b406ac6824baaa34dce64120a30a0441fbd9c4e0fd628e8733682de/mariner8.jpg" /> <img width="2896" height="2317" width_o="2896" height_o="2317" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5cb99de0e5dc99fb52564675b00741a204c09c685143999e89240c83980ebf87/mariner9.jpg" data-mid="212439704" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5cb99de0e5dc99fb52564675b00741a204c09c685143999e89240c83980ebf87/mariner9.jpg" /> <img width="2896" height="2317" width_o="2896" height_o="2317" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/023c591a132425b42d79ac4eede9a56764a34cf69ef879bbf2b945d6ca5480a6/mariner10.jpg" data-mid="212439706" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/023c591a132425b42d79ac4eede9a56764a34cf69ef879bbf2b945d6ca5480a6/mariner10.jpg" /> <img width="2896" height="2317" width_o="2896" height_o="2317" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fee96bc6abf491793fb674aef34f58700d90eb7cb0cbe963cc4c8e01a3adc41b/mariner11.jpg" data-mid="212439705" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fee96bc6abf491793fb674aef34f58700d90eb7cb0cbe963cc4c8e01a3adc41b/mariner11.jpg" /> https://stephaniemoore.org/Mrs-Eaves-and-the-Quest-for-the-Perfect-Letter Mon, 29 May 2023 19:02:38 +0000 Stephanie Moore https://stephaniemoore.org/Mrs-Eaves-and-the-Quest-for-the-Perfect-Letter Mrs Eaves and the Quest for the Perfect Letter Book DesignStudent work, RISD Continuing Ed Online (Graphic Systems + Structures)2021 The ever-popular typeface booklet project. Mrs. Eaves led me on a research tour from its designer Zuzana Licko to John Baskerville and his wife Sarah Eaves and back to Licko's pioneering bitmap fonts. The brief asked us to teach the reader some basic information about type along the way, and of course to use our typeface expressively. (For a companion poster project, see The Ghost &amp; Mrs. Eaves.) <img width="1221" height="977" width_o="1221" height_o="977" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3b44b320b329368559e132883300f07eb7b85e177c8bbb55b030396cdced8e03/mrseaves_detail1.jpg" data-mid="212439282" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3b44b320b329368559e132883300f07eb7b85e177c8bbb55b030396cdced8e03/mrseaves_detail1.jpg" /> <img width="1221" height="977" width_o="1221" height_o="977" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0a2fbe0176100f56a3e133d3c61a57609f248a7c3cf452a07be19c1da1055c9b/mrseaves_detail6.jpg" data-mid="212439287" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0a2fbe0176100f56a3e133d3c61a57609f248a7c3cf452a07be19c1da1055c9b/mrseaves_detail6.jpg" /> <img width="1221" height="977" width_o="1221" height_o="977" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/50ccb53c20d70775d89aba2310edf0fe3ebe882bcd89288be7255e9405c84595/mrseaves_detail3.jpg" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6b57ec113b476669932b396114cabf9b9d32414c2e4c3eb1f442f8da2c13ce92/mrseaves8.jpg" data-mid="212439297" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6b57ec113b476669932b396114cabf9b9d32414c2e4c3eb1f442f8da2c13ce92/mrseaves8.jpg" /> <img width="1221" height="977" width_o="1221" height_o="977" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aeb4e94ca88e0780fbb9073487d0edc84748a90e75c2405ebba565cad96d079e/mrseaves9.jpg" data-mid="212439298" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aeb4e94ca88e0780fbb9073487d0edc84748a90e75c2405ebba565cad96d079e/mrseaves9.jpg" /> <img width="1221" height="977" width_o="1221" height_o="977" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/19e40151e26913964d1e221214f2d7661315ddfb4618b438138ab47d867fdffe/mrseaves10.jpg" data-mid="212439299" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/19e40151e26913964d1e221214f2d7661315ddfb4618b438138ab47d867fdffe/mrseaves10.jpg" /> <img width="1221" height="977" width_o="1221" height_o="977" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/00476606cf560327a56fb161d0e6262f8c0e8156d6485367a975f5099587ac18/mrseaves11.jpg" data-mid="212439300" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/00476606cf560327a56fb161d0e6262f8c0e8156d6485367a975f5099587ac18/mrseaves11.jpg" /> https://stephaniemoore.org/The-Ghost-Mrs-Eaves Wed, 31 May 2023 22:28:10 +0000 Stephanie Moore https://stephaniemoore.org/The-Ghost-Mrs-Eaves The Ghost &amp; Mrs Eaves Poster DesignStudent work, RISD Continuing Ed Online (Graphic Systems + Structures)2021 A companion project to Mrs Eaves and the Quest for the Perfect Letter. We were to imagine, and then advertise, a scholarly talk on our typeface, and I thought it would be fun to evoke a haunting in a talk about a revival.(The sans serif typeface used on the posters is of course Mr Eaves.)<img width="4001" height="3201" width_o="4001" height_o="3201" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6242d032c03cd9bc8a1e6bb33c1dca08afc4eed85f81338f1b4ea2c3f7803ca4/mrs_eaves_poster3.jpg" data-mid="181521040" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6242d032c03cd9bc8a1e6bb33c1dca08afc4eed85f81338f1b4ea2c3f7803ca4/mrs_eaves_poster3.jpg" /><img width="4001" height="3201" width_o="4001" height_o="3201" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fdc8f69c11812436eec0d6c2ac24c7122c9e3b049d5178f92f179e530565b5cf/mrs_eaves_poster1.jpg" data-mid="181521038" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fdc8f69c11812436eec0d6c2ac24c7122c9e3b049d5178f92f179e530565b5cf/mrs_eaves_poster1.jpg" /><img width="4001" height="3201" width_o="4001" height_o="3201" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/93f2a91ef5755cdff2abd1e596131d4911b27be821cd9702ce682f62ce9cf88c/mrs_eaves_poster4.jpg" data-mid="181521041" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/93f2a91ef5755cdff2abd1e596131d4911b27be821cd9702ce682f62ce9cf88c/mrs_eaves_poster4.jpg" /><img width="4001" height="3201" width_o="4001" height_o="3201" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8709dbb8a301a4bfb4d018a3e07e647c33312a9b5314e6a41377f53c44c62a10/mrs_eaves_poster2.jpg" data-mid="181521039" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8709dbb8a301a4bfb4d018a3e07e647c33312a9b5314e6a41377f53c44c62a10/mrs_eaves_poster2.jpg" /> https://stephaniemoore.org/Nothing-Stirred-in-the-Air Wed, 31 May 2023 22:25:25 +0000 Stephanie Moore https://stephaniemoore.org/Nothing-Stirred-in-the-Air Nothing Stirred in the Air Editorial Design, IllustrationStudent work, RISD Continuing Ed Online (Typographics I)2021 Design for “Nothing Stirred in the Air” by Stephen Dillon, published in Places journal, about the notorious women’s high-security unit at Lexington Federal Prison that used sensory deprivation as a form of disciplinary violence. I tried to invoke the bare, white, fluorescent-lit environment of the unit with the layout and illustrations. I also drew imagery from other buildings with disciplinary designs, such as the slot windows and roof exercise yard of Chicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Center. <img width="2104" height="1683" width_o="2104" height_o="1683" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b14f9a1ba1f2b7139087f6ce0f31d36a29786c6f8dbf0fa266ae7bbba128a692/nothingstirred1.jpg" data-mid="212439584" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b14f9a1ba1f2b7139087f6ce0f31d36a29786c6f8dbf0fa266ae7bbba128a692/nothingstirred1.jpg" /> <img width="2104" height="1683" width_o="2104" height_o="1683" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/40a7735acf26d0a6cb58bc05659a08e7335885834d589c24c550a6e0cf1b3bb2/nothingstirred2.jpg" data-mid="212439585" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/40a7735acf26d0a6cb58bc05659a08e7335885834d589c24c550a6e0cf1b3bb2/nothingstirred2.jpg" /> <img width="2104" height="1683" width_o="2104" height_o="1683" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/355a04ae5b22724698d8d64cce8ce920ddaa61445e74f963209b9644db47583a/nothingstirred3.jpg" data-mid="212439586" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/355a04ae5b22724698d8d64cce8ce920ddaa61445e74f963209b9644db47583a/nothingstirred3.jpg" /> <img width="2104" height="1683" width_o="2104" height_o="1683" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c0665eeb2b5caf1b6291f49a9044b72d875ac81eef1e86498c2907484f245c9/nothingstirred4.jpg" data-mid="212439587" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2c0665eeb2b5caf1b6291f49a9044b72d875ac81eef1e86498c2907484f245c9/nothingstirred4.jpg" /> <img width="2104" height="1683" width_o="2104" height_o="1683" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/954ceb22bbe15f0984e5d6808793e5632a66bd5036d3a3dad79a22b28731193b/nothingstirred5.jpg" data-mid="212439588" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/954ceb22bbe15f0984e5d6808793e5632a66bd5036d3a3dad79a22b28731193b/nothingstirred5.jpg" /> <img width="2104" height="1683" width_o="2104" height_o="1683" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e96c747f7c4c5e5e85603b37eaf3370708168395f2b61fb24d3716d7d8202cd1/nothingstirred6.jpg" data-mid="212439589" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e96c747f7c4c5e5e85603b37eaf3370708168395f2b61fb24d3716d7d8202cd1/nothingstirred6.jpg" /> <img width="2104" height="1683" width_o="2104" height_o="1683" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0bf338cea28cd823937afd375a14f386fc86574b01c177a4b6721e71b7e95240/nothingstirred7.jpg" data-mid="212439590" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0bf338cea28cd823937afd375a14f386fc86574b01c177a4b6721e71b7e95240/nothingstirred7.jpg" /> <img width="2104" height="1683" width_o="2104" height_o="1683" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3ff5ad0a4a8038649a04df64b4828a0f8151e4b9003fdaa321bca9fcad42793f/nothingstirred8.jpg" data-mid="212439591" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3ff5ad0a4a8038649a04df64b4828a0f8151e4b9003fdaa321bca9fcad42793f/nothingstirred8.jpg" /> <img width="2104" height="1683" width_o="2104" height_o="1683" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bdf82a1efbc6b3060be7e2a7efe2351669db24a35de913f9a7ab5f43f28e7680/nothingstirred9.jpg" data-mid="212439592" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bdf82a1efbc6b3060be7e2a7efe2351669db24a35de913f9a7ab5f43f28e7680/nothingstirred9.jpg" /> <img width="2104" height="1683" width_o="2104" height_o="1683" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b9d3aa64ee0bc6bf8f8e9709b9047d6f5a0c3ca1d2924dc73e2160bccd9c7c93/nothingstirred10.jpg" data-mid="212439593" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b9d3aa64ee0bc6bf8f8e9709b9047d6f5a0c3ca1d2924dc73e2160bccd9c7c93/nothingstirred10.jpg" /> <img width="2104" height="1683" width_o="2104" height_o="1683" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6ceeb061977c3508b515e950e8c46d9f2ac2ab744d3dbe351d69f84bdae7f474/nothingstirred11.jpg" data-mid="212439594" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6ceeb061977c3508b515e950e8c46d9f2ac2ab744d3dbe351d69f84bdae7f474/nothingstirred11.jpg" /> https://stephaniemoore.org/The-Art-of-Memory Wed, 31 May 2023 22:23:01 +0000 Stephanie Moore https://stephaniemoore.org/The-Art-of-Memory The Art of Memory Postcard Design, Conceptual, PhotographyStudent work, RISD Continuing Ed Online (Type + Image)2022 This assignment asked us to create a series of postcards that engaged in some way with a poem—I chose “This Room and Everything In It” by Li-Young Lee, which is about a doomed attempt to tie fleeting insights to sensations in the memory. The postcards depicted these sensations as photographed objects that begin to merge and confuse themselves with the text they’re supposed to anchor, eventually burning a hole in the “memory” of the postcards. This Room and Everything in It By Li-Young Lee Lie still nowwhile I prepare for my future,certain hard days ahead,when I’ll need what I know so clearly this moment.I am making useof the one thing I learnedof all the things my father tried to teach me:the art of memory.I am letting this roomand everything in itstand for my ideas about loveand its difficulties.I’ll let your love-cries,those spacious notesof a moment ago,stand for distance.Your scent,that scentof spice and a wound,I’ll let stand for mystery.Your sunken bellyis the daily cupof milk I drankas a boy before morning prayer.The sun on the faceof the wallis God, the faceI can’t see, my soul,and so on, each thingstanding for a separate idea,and those ideas forming the constellationof my greater idea.And one day, when I needto tell myself something intelligentabout love,I’ll close my eyesand recall this room and everything in it:My body is estrangement.This desire, perfection.Your closed eyes my extinction.Now I’ve forgotten myidea. The bookon the windowsill, riffled by wind . . .the even-numbered pages arethe past, the odd-numbered pages, the future.The sun isGod, your body is milk . . .useless, useless . . .your cries are song, my body’s not me . . .no good . . . my ideahas evaporated . . . your hair is time, your thighs are song . . .it had something to dowith death . . . it had somethingto do with love. (The images below are arranged as though you are flipping through the postcards like pages in a book; the left-hand card is the back of the previous right-hand card.) <img width="3300" height="2200" width_o="3300" height_o="2200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/47aa9466772ac75c973e59559b81b4b0b0d063cb445d86fc43bed1599a09c84c/postcard_sidebyside1.jpg" data-mid="180604833" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/47aa9466772ac75c973e59559b81b4b0b0d063cb445d86fc43bed1599a09c84c/postcard_sidebyside1.jpg" /> <img width="3300" height="2200" width_o="3300" height_o="2200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1a4ce0fbd255c6d6e50600856d4184855c7468f0d29009953d4fc09dcee7bfe4/postcard_sidebyside2.jpg" data-mid="180604834" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1a4ce0fbd255c6d6e50600856d4184855c7468f0d29009953d4fc09dcee7bfe4/postcard_sidebyside2.jpg" /> <img width="3300" height="2200" width_o="3300" height_o="2200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6645663a309072a290c05b9ec9730157eee1f98c555624926254012739fa4903/postcard_sidebyside3.jpg" data-mid="180604835" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6645663a309072a290c05b9ec9730157eee1f98c555624926254012739fa4903/postcard_sidebyside3.jpg" /> <img width="3300" height="2200" width_o="3300" height_o="2200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dbec38a1494c022f96df2ea118c6e7bf55c3415a2e4f505988ab95ed45a48ece/postcard_sidebyside4.jpg" data-mid="180604836" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dbec38a1494c022f96df2ea118c6e7bf55c3415a2e4f505988ab95ed45a48ece/postcard_sidebyside4.jpg" /> <img width="3300" height="2200" width_o="3300" height_o="2200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f2cf950e6349066603752780a7e95c5b394ec3e753a2a3c056e383c144adf409/postcard_sidebyside5.jpg" data-mid="180604838" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f2cf950e6349066603752780a7e95c5b394ec3e753a2a3c056e383c144adf409/postcard_sidebyside5.jpg" /> <img width="3300" height="2200" width_o="3300" height_o="2200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f7b4dbcc91c8d62a558f042b7d89d39ac5e76cef933259feb8399e01a1d7030d/postcard_sidebyside6.jpg" data-mid="180604840" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f7b4dbcc91c8d62a558f042b7d89d39ac5e76cef933259feb8399e01a1d7030d/postcard_sidebyside6.jpg" /> <img width="3300" height="2200" width_o="3300" height_o="2200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/34c8ebcd179cd77397021022bd1bd7a9c9a84d6e414cec94e1f2e5f77b86ac1b/postcard_sidebyside7.jpg" data-mid="180604842" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/34c8ebcd179cd77397021022bd1bd7a9c9a84d6e414cec94e1f2e5f77b86ac1b/postcard_sidebyside7.jpg" /> <img width="3300" height="2200" width_o="3300" height_o="2200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3d9b725f5ee90552b458fe5a6fcc4b40e792ff751a0c9f52b7ab0b21c7d9cddd/postcard_sidebyside8.jpg" data-mid="180604844" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3d9b725f5ee90552b458fe5a6fcc4b40e792ff751a0c9f52b7ab0b21c7d9cddd/postcard_sidebyside8.jpg" /> <img width="3300" height="2200" width_o="3300" height_o="2200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9f8178a6952a46264db3adcabb29ef882e030bf88f07d0c2cb5a37d87947f148/postcard_sidebyside9.jpg" data-mid="180604845" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9f8178a6952a46264db3adcabb29ef882e030bf88f07d0c2cb5a37d87947f148/postcard_sidebyside9.jpg" /> <img width="3300" height="2200" width_o="3300" height_o="2200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f305d7bc0ea2a37ef71adb43688c4b022e001c3901c5e3e56740fabe0317d4f8/postcard_sidebyside10.jpg" data-mid="180604846" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f305d7bc0ea2a37ef71adb43688c4b022e001c3901c5e3e56740fabe0317d4f8/postcard_sidebyside10.jpg" />