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Erik Brandt’s Ficciones Typografika
Ficciones
Typografika is a project dedicated to typographic exploration in a public space
and is curated by Erik Brandt. The exhibition surface is a 72”Wx36”H poster
board which can host three 24”x36” posters at a time.
Call
for Submissions:
Typographic
work in your native language is encouraged and most welcome. Ideally, the
poster should be B&W only and have no bleeds (these can be accommodated,
please include crop marks). Content and theme are completely up to you but keep
in mind the space is public. Available paper colors are plain white, light
green, light blue, light yellow, or pink bond paper.
This
is a continuing project so there is no deadline. Please submit your work via
email to erikbrandt (at) typografika (dot) com in PDF format, and please
include crop marks if you require bleeds.
Submission
Notes:
1.
Not all submissions will be accepted. Those that are accepted will be notified
but it may take some time before your poster is wheat pasted.
2.
Your poster, along with a link to your preferred website, will be featured on
the project Tumblr and the Facebook Page.
3.
Posters are printed at the curator’s own expense. If you agree to participate,
a collection of these posters may be printed sometime in the future in a
newsprint format, same size. Any profit gained from that will be reapplied to
the next publication. Contributors will receive one copy of the publication
gratis, if and when it is created.
Detailien:
1.
Ficciones Typografika: “Typographic fictions.”
2.
Poster dimensions: 24”(W) x 36”(H) or 60.96cm x 91.44cm;
vertical
orientation only.
3.
Color: Black only. You are encouraged to leave a .25” white border
on
all four sides but bleeds can also be accommodated, please include
crop
marks if so.
4.
File Format: PDF, greyscale, flattened.
5.
Optional paper colors/ground: Plain white, light green, light blue,
light
yellow, or pink bond paper.
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Ficciones Typografika is well renowned
platform, with a great social media following, the platform explores
typographic exploration in a public space and digitally.
The attraction for creatives to participate
with the project may derive from interest in conceptual practice alongside the
sufficient professional publicity, whatever the intent for submission, the
project is one of love – it is not run for profit.
My intent in participating in the project
derived from the ability to showcase results from my creative exploration,
there are little platforms that promote self-initiated experiments. The
sufficient publicity and pride as a result of being accepted was also a
pleasure.
Without a brief in it’s traditional sense,
the platform asked for typographic experiments, the result of unorthodox,
concept driven practice.
The aesthetic within my submission ‘FUN FUN
FUN’ derived from exactly that, the practice of enjoying the ability to explore
new typographic forms that may not be freely available in a commercial
environment.
The visual language found within the
submission was then, not an immediate derivation from the traditional idea of
fun but a more personal practice of art – expressing emotion through the visual,
in this case, 2D image.
The technical abilities and explored
through practice I developed in this piece can be seen as a reward, allowing
myself to learn while experimenting developed my skills on Adobe program,
Photoshop.
To have my submission accepted was
brilliant of course, be it to put on a C.V, add to my digital presence or even
use it as an excuse to talk to other contributors – why would I have not
submitted?!
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