Cross pollinate for Inspiration
3D Word Search | Type Installation | Environmental Design
Working with a partner, we watched a TED Talk and created a typographic installation inspired by a theme expressed by the speaker. Marian Bantjes discussed the idea of borrowing from other designers’ work to make something uniquely your own.
Rather than referencing the work of designers we admire, we appropriated their names, transforming them into a three-dimensional crossword puzzle featuring our favorite designers. As viewers move around the installation, new perspectives reveal hidden names and ultimately the title of the project.
Director - Leon Sun
Collaborator - Levii Sleight
With this being an experimental type installation, the names aren’t in your typical wordsearch orientation. To find the names for the left and right view your eyes have to find the lines in which the words are split up.
Left View - Crosspollinate
Right View - Inspiration
Similar to the left and right view you may have to move around the installation to be able to view the name. Some of the letters are placed on the top face and bottom face of the pyramids to complete the name.
Down - Aicher, Brodivitch, Brody, Glaser, Hoffman, Lubalin, Rand
Across - Bass, Kid, Lois, Matter