I have only just come across Caroline's work and it is fascinating. Each piece of her work is unique with a true meaning or story behind it.
'Pictures taken in a supermarket
and then redrawn as color graphics using dominant colors of each packaging. Afterwards I translated the visual graphic into a text form according to a color code I had devised before (typeface system in which each letter was replaced by a different colour).'
'Typeface system in which each letter was replaced by a square with a different colour. Use of this code through a pedagogic text of the National library.'
I love the interaction factor involved with these books, one sure way to get your audience interacting with your work.
What is the area covered by a letter?
All these experiments consist in erasing the recognition of the letters to underline their structural specificities. The black quantity of the letter is reduced to
a geometric basic shape – while respecting and using its production space – to isolate some specific characteristics: the light and the proportion of density of black and white.
Wow. This is definitely some inspiring work right here. I now feel I want to make my own code to use in this manner in relation to sweet packaging.
'Graphic visualisation of the black and white area covered by all the letters inMemoirs of a Madman in Scala Regular font, 10pt size, then in OCR-B Alternate font, 10pt size.'
'Research and (typo)graphic experiments about writing systems, black and white area of a letter and images.'
The concepts of her work are quite simple once they are revealed to you and understood, yet she has used them to create some alluring pieces of design.
