This is the American Military Industrial Complex under Trump in 2017, has the world really become a safer place since he was voted into office? The recent events in Iran prove that this appears to be far from the case not to mention his disastrous executive orders, rescinding from the Paris Climate Agreement or normalization of domestic far right wing terrorism. A defense budget of $2.5 trillion would needlessly increase their militaristic grasp around the world which his administration and previous ones constantly touted as spreading “democracy.” The disease this machine inflicts has progressed to a point that is not only political and economic but more significantly racial and environmental, which the latter we are on borrowed time. With the looming threat of war these infographics are more akin to the horrors and atrocities that lay in store for our planets future let alone the war machines omnipotent grip over the world and all life it harbors.
All data on infographics credited to: David Vine, "List of U.S. Military Bases Abroad, 2017, derived from research for Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2015)"
Infographic examining the asset flow of NBC Universal
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I’ve always had an appreciation for blackletter calligraphy, specifically their angled strokes, embellished serifs and ornamentations. With this typeface I took those elements and tried to simplify them into a modern form.
During this project I was in a point in my life where i had to make a change. I had been living my life in a very destructive, unproductive and unhealthy way, both physically and emotionally. I felt if I didn’t make a change I wouldn’t be happy with my self ever and would keep going down hill from there. At this time I was reading a lot of self reflective material and one of the many points that stuck out was admitting my faults to the people around me but more importantly to myself.
Sadly these are the only images I have of this typeface, I lost the original file on a cloud server and thought i had backed it up. The main direction i was going for was to have the fonts based within a triangle and I just took it from there.
Much of my life has been filled with doubt and almost no confidence. This had hindered me to the point where I could not maintain a healthy balance for my life in terms of inter and intra relationships weather it be personal or professional related. But one thing that never wavered was that i wanted change society and peoples understanding, or lack of understanding, for the better. To this day there have been an unimaginable number of injustices to people around the world, and this project was conceived to reinforce and remind people that there are still people like us that actually care.
During this project I was working on crypto currency contract and had been tasked with creating banner ads and social media assets. Ideas around circuitry and pvc boards came to mind which lead me to eventually making this typeface. First I had to come up with a general shape of the font that was readable then from there I had to fill in with the elements. Consistency and a fixed set of rules are typically the way I design fonts and this typeface was no exception. Each font was individually made with no repetitions except for the elements themselves.
This is a quote from astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson and because of people like him astronomy has come to fascinates me to no end. The universe began 14 billion years ago at the size smaller than a single atom and has been expanding ever since. This completely blows my mind. Knowing my place, let alone the human races place, in all of this made me realize how fleeting and insignificant our lives are compared to the cosmos. All of our prejudices, egos, popularity, clothes, cars, mansions, politics, wars and hate are petty compared to it. We control nothing, let the chips fall where they may.
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Like my conflict with self doubt, depression was the largest problem I had to battle growing up. Unaware at the time all of these issues were interconnected in a vicious cycle that always stemmed from the others. This only brought me deeper and deeper into that hole i dug myself. Eventually i made the choice to get help, but many of these times it was only superficial, and the underlying issues were still festering. Sometimes I believed that i was stable enough to move forward so I’d tell myself to keep going and not let my emotions get the best of me.
Design speaking I always had an inclination to connect typography in some form. Here I took that idea and went as far as i could go and the result was one single line with embellishments of the blending tool.
At the time of this project I was attending a couple recovery and fellowship groups. This was the first time I had admitted to myself that I had and still have a problem. It was all very foreign to me and I had learned many things including my bottom lines. These are the habits we turn to when in distress, doubt or fear. Drugs have been a problem since my teenage years and still continue to be this day, but the difference is that I know that I had been using them to escape and numb myself to my emotions and problems in my life.
The same can be said about my past relationships and video games. I would lie and use people just to feel some sense of worth or value for myself. On top of these I would check out from reality and isolate myself in a fantasy world where i didn’t have to deal with anything. My bottom lines would typically be interconnected in a cycle that would only make things worse not just for me but for everyone around me. I realized this had been destroying my chance of any real happiness and why I had been in denial for my entire life.
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According to Wikipedia confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that affirms one's prior beliefs or hypotheses. Because of this people are hesitant to reach out and understand another’s point of view, belief, etc. It’s more apparent in today’s society and has come to a point where we are forced to choose a side. With this project I wanted to play with that concept of hidden vs seen or known vs unknown.
When i have spare time I like to doodle around in Illustrator, make letter forms or try to come up with new creative avenues I haven’t explored yet. These are some of the projects I ended up with.
