DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE, IN RGB
Google was founded on September 4, 1998 in Menlo Park, CA. I was born the next day, September 5, 1998 in Atlanta Georgia. I have never known a world without the digital space—we have grown up together—almost as siblings, and it’s hard to discern how much of my childhood and early adulthood was spent exploring the digital landscape as opposed to the real world. It’s hard to discern if the digital landscape is as real as the real world.
What does the digital space look like? Both infinite and finite—a user interface is designed to connect the individual rest to the world, and yet each users experience is a monastic and isolated experience. I don’t know what your curated digital space looks like, I don’t know the places you’ve been, I don’t know what you’ve felt as you’ve traversed, but I assume there’s some overlap between our experiences.
“Do You See What I See, in RGB” is a graphic and typographic exploration of these shared experiences in a large format, poster-fine-art hybrid form. As a graphic designer, my intention is that every aspect of the piece leads the viewer to the space we are exploring: the vertical compisitions, the use of primary colors (red, green, and blue), the strong and dominating typographic layouts, the fonts chosen, the recognizable icons, the phrases, the markmaking (pixels, dots, vertical lines) etc. My aim was for the the work to have a poster like quality while still maintaining a fine art presence by using themes found throughout art history, to both synthesize the struggles of the past with todays issues, and draw the viewer to a place of cultural critique and commentary. These include, the still life, the portrait, the female nude, and religious iconology.