A tale of two cities, Birmingham, England and Mexico City, an abstract study on how as a global community we really aren't all that different from each other. The exhibit uses film (shot by Laureana in Birmingham and John in Mexico City) as well as sound, conversations between John and Laureana as well as, check this, a loop of just John's bass recorded from a Duran Duran show this past summer. Interesting visual and sonic elements at play.
Another part to it was a newspaper, PROXIMO, that I was asked to create. This was a fun project for me as I had free reign in a way of what I could do. I used the conversation between Laureana and John in the film to comprise the text of the paper, but I took it all out of order and abstrated it a bit. I pulled lines that stood out to me and used them as main headlines, thus creating little 'articles' out of a conversation. I then pulled still images from the film that, to me, fit with the text and added some visual sense and excitement. A completely abstract excercise really, John and Laureana told me to just run with what I felt from it!
So the paper is 8 pages, with one side printed in English, then you flip it over and the other side is in Spanish... printed on the coolest, vintage-looking peachy-pink newsprint paper, which I love. Both sides meet in the middle with a 'centerfold' image of two cities colliding. And it is free to take for those who attend.
Now unfortunately this is only going on for a few more days until November 8th at the Eastside Projects gallery in Birmingham, but for those in the area there is still time to check it out! For the rest of us, perhaps this exhibit will make its way to another gallery in another city one day as well.
For more info: http://www.eastsideprojects.org/
That's sweet Patty. Wish I was able to check it out. Did you write the spanish version as well? :) I can totally see this paper on the stands down the streets of Mexico...a little kid coming up to me selling me his chiclets and the Proximo. :)
ReplyDeletehaha chiclets definitely! Fortunately Laureana translated it into Spanish for me. I took 3 years of it in school, but I'm just embarrassing.
ReplyDeleteThe newspaper is beautifully designed. John and I spoke about what we wanted out of the Proximo publication, and then gave control of the design decisions to Patty... and were absolutely happy with the results!!
ReplyDeleteIt looks vintage enough, the fonts are so well chosen, the layout is very classic, and the color of the paper totally closes the circle... although the theme seems too abstract, it could perfectly blend into any news stand, either spanish or english...
Thank you Patty!!
xL.
So cool, Patty! As a newspaper junkie, I get all misty-eyed over the vintage patina....put it on a T-shirt and you'll get some more money out of me:)
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