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Continue reading →: edits + swirls and dots and lines
Changed the terminals of the ‘v’ and ‘x’, added the first layer of detail…
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Continue reading →: edits
An updated version of the typeface. I’ll be adding the detail back in tomorrow afternoon. I miss some of the flourishes from the first version….but I know this one flows better. Not totally happy with the ‘x’ and ‘v’ again.
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Continue reading →: “pictorial polyphony”
[term: Paul Klee’s, definition: mostly mine] >>A style of simultaneously combining a number of parts, each forming an individual melody yet at the same time harmonizing – to create such a dense and dimensional imagery that such disparate forms create a unified whole. Every element is essential. Without the counterpoint…
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Continue reading →: japanese stab binding #8: sneeze, web, and campfire
Because I needed a break and a kinesthetic project. I tried some asymmetrical designs this time.
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Continue reading →: distilling my statement
What do I hope to communicate? That beauty can be found in the foreign and the unknown, that a different perspective of life and art can bring a person out of a narrow view and broaden his understanding of the world and others. Not only will he comprehend, but he…
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Continue reading →: coalescence specimen
Some of the connections between letters need work, and a few angles need adjusting. It’s definitely easier to see the flaws when words are being formed. I also have an alternate ‘w’, that isn’t as quirky…
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Continue reading →: additional letters
I think the ‘x’ is better, though the angle is slightly off…it’s hard to make sure it’s correct from page to page.
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I’m Becca!
Welcome to Becca Making Faces, a blog that started out as a grad school project and has become a place where I post experiments in Japanese stab binding.
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