Typography 10ft Word

In this project, I was paired up with John West in the making of a 10ft word that he and I felt described typography. Typography is thought to be a dying breed, but people are still creating varieties of different and new typefaces.  John and I felt that the word character best explained typography because, honestly, what is a typeface made of? Characters. The typographical definition of character is "A symbol in writing. A letter, punctuation mark or figure" thanks to http://www.proximasoftware.com/fontexpert/terms. Our chosen medium was tissue paper pasted on foam core board in a flower-esque effect.  This project will be displayed in front of the Mane de Leon salon on June 1st during my first Art Walk.  After approximately 26+hrs of work and $70 spent, this is what we came up with:

 John outlining the text of our word on a homemade transparency

 On our way down the elevator

 I can't take a candid photograph

 In the art room

 Setting up 

 We have the word all written out on the foam core

 Creating pixels 

I finished my first one after John finished 2 

 I cannot make a straight line..

 The paper in the flower-esque effect

 He's havin a good time

 And obviously hard at work

Supplies :)

 At the beginning, everything pixeled and color cordinated

 We added the blue to help contrast the other colors in the shape of the letter

 It definitely looks better, no?

 John had the first one finished. Looks awesome!

 Hmm..

 After day two

 After day three

 We finished by day four

 Definitely one of the coolest things I've ever done

 Have to share the success with everyone

 Yay!

 What a successful day :)

I shall post more after the Art Walk this Friday June 1, 2012