Anachropomorphism!
THESIS BOOK | MFA Thesis
This book is the physical and conceptual cumulation of my 3 year odyssey at the Rhode Island School of Design’s Graphic Design masters program. The title, anachropomorphism! is a portmanteau of the words anachronism and anthropomorphism, with a little joyful exuberance thrown in there at the end. A digital version is available via the RISD Library’s Digital Commons.
This body of work seeks to visually communicate historical and cultural conventions, especially through motion, embodiment, and gesture——a visual and physical interpretation that leverages both thought and emotion. Mine is a practice of visual and bodily (re)enactment.
This book is the physical and conceptual cumulation of my 3 year odyssey at the Rhode Island School of Design’s Graphic Design masters program. The title, anachropomorphism! is a portmanteau of the words anachronism and anthropomorphism, with a little joyful exuberance thrown in there at the end. A digital version is available via the RISD Library’s Digital Commons.
This body of work seeks to visually communicate historical and cultural conventions, especially through motion, embodiment, and gesture——a visual and physical interpretation that leverages both thought and emotion. Mine is a practice of visual and bodily (re)enactment.
The book has four main parts: a series of short essays, an interview, eight groupings of work, and two appendices (one of gesture and one of props). It was typeset in MAD Sans and Eldorado, and printed on Mohawk Superfine 80#T Eggshell in Softwhite and Ultrawhite, on an Indigo digital press by Puritan Capital. Ten copies were printed in total.
Making the book was both a challenging and familiar process for me. My work didn’t sit easily on the page, being all video or performance-based. It took several iterations before I landed on a design scheme that felt right. On the other hand, I found processing my past three years into writing to be extremely rewarding, tying my humanities-centered prior academic experience to my art school journey.
