Dead Celebrity Society
"every painting," he said, "is a drop of my blood."
The prompt for this pair of posters was to celebrate the life of a dead celebrity given certain specific constraints. Using keywords taken from a page of text corresponding to the age at which Pablo Picasso died (91), my goal was to retell his story in both images and with type.
The biography used for this project was picked precisely for its bias: Francoise Gilot's "Life with Picasso" was written only ten years after their separation, while the artist was still alive.
Part of the exercise included typographic exploration: how to use just the letterforms of the celebrity’s first name to convey five distinct attributes about a person? (attributes, in order: 1: signature, 2: lover of women, 3: horny, 4: cubist, 5: bullfighter.)
The biography used for this project was picked precisely for its bias: Francoise Gilot's "Life with Picasso" was written only ten years after their separation, while the artist was still alive.
Part of the exercise included typographic exploration: how to use just the letterforms of the celebrity’s first name to convey five distinct attributes about a person? (attributes, in order: 1: signature, 2: lover of women, 3: horny, 4: cubist, 5: bullfighter.)
