Lost in Translation/Symbol Dialogue

Sorry for the long BLOGOUT. The Semester started off and things have been crazy since. But now I want to show you some results of the last week. This year I’m attending Joost Bottema’s Project called “Writing Images”. We’re still in the process of finding the our subjects for the final product of this course. We started off symbolizing “monkeysounds” and translating these symbols into a dialogue which was picked individually. I chose a dialogue from “Lost in Translation” where Bob talks to his wife on the phone. I tried to develope a symbol system for each character and it’s degree of interaction with the other person. It was more important to work with what is not said or what is actually meant–the “subtext”, if you will. The next step was to create some kind of “moodboard/booklet” to get closer to a topic or what could do develope out of it. I haven’t really found the right subject nor do I know where this going, yet. But I think it might be going in the direction of “estrangement in a relationship”. A couple more months to go on this project, though. I will keep you updated!

The A5 Booklet:

The Symbol Dialogue:

November 4th, 2009 | Entry Filed under: Graphic