Check out http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2003/09/20030904_b_main.asp and look at View display panels. Also think about matting and framing a few specimens just like a drawing or print. Mat or mount with plenty of space around your work so it is isolated and can be looked at without distractions. If you use 32x40 inch panels five or six in a 20 foot area are enough with space between.

You could also look at using your designs in a practical way, maybe making your space a catalogue or wayfinding system for the rest of the exhibition, I’m thinking of distinguishing the craft from the art.

Is there an opportunity for an interactive work, a projector, a computer and a keyboard inviting the audience to contribute (criticism, rambling thoughts, probably obscenity etc)?

Alternatively you could create words/letters on a magnetic medium – kind of huge fridge poetry.

I’m not entirely sure that this gives you the opportunity to demonstrate your process (in fact I’m not clear what you mean by that).

Tim

Somewhere on his site, Erik van Blockland has photos from last years Type [ Media master’s degree student exhibition. Maybe that could give you some ideas? They seem to all plot out large, tall banners showing off their type in various sizes.

I know someone in Offenbach who filled a room with his thesis typeface. He had a foot high banner running around the room, black, with white type on it. I think it was a continuous text about typography. Then made three foot high blocks, sort like the chips in scrabble. These were all black, each with a white letter on them. They stood in the middle of the room, and spelled out the typeface’s name. Lastly, he had a podium behind these blocks. On that was a book, which described the process behind the typeface’s design.

I have made posters in the past myself. 6 x DIN A0 (I think). Each was framed, and they hung in two rows of three.

And then there is this project of mine. Better photos from the exhibition are in this Typophile thread (scroll down a little).

Thanks Tim and Dan.

I’m still working on it and hope it’s in good enough shape to display that large when it comes time. I’m also trying to integrate a time-based information design into my display, for another class.

Tim
I guess process is just this, I spent about 7-8mo’s on something else, which wasn’t well received here, so I started over. I’d like to find some way to integrate that (I have a ton of process on that one) and what I have on this one.

I was thinking I could split my process/results into a month by month progression or something.

Dan or Tim,

If you’ve got any ideas for a progression type thing, share please!

Thanks guys.

> large, tall banners

Sounds anti-type, even anti-human.
Portrait format is fine for... portraits, but for
type especially I suspect the main reason it’s
prominent is that you don’t (sometimes) have
to go to two columns to make things readable.

Horizontality is much better. Like picture a continuous thick line going around the room, at a gentle incline, so that it wraps around repeatedly without a break: people can follow the spiral, sort of becoming part of the motif even.

hhp

I was thinking I could split my process/results into a month by month progression or something.
That sounds good, some kind of calendar or almanac with an image of that month’s problem overcome (or not) with days & dates and any special type events set in the type as it existed at the time (if that is a possibility, month one could use sketches, month two more finished etc). There was another thread which came to a similar conclusion. You could print up some copies as giveaways. Alternatively some kind of morphing animation from sketch to finish.

Tim

I’m getting some polished stainless letters laser-cut to mount on my space above my work, and was wondering if anyone had a solid method of keeping everything staight, since all the letters have to be applied individually. and especially the italic, which not of it rests on baseline.

Thanks