kelseysnook
for Jona
On my first day of the MA Creative Practice for Narrative Environments course at the University of the Arts London, our first assignment was that we were sent off in pairs to get to know our partner and create a narrative environment about him / her. Jona Piehl was my partner and very shortly after we set about asking each other questions I knew we'd be friends. Without knowing at all what the other was doing, each of us set about the assigned task intending to create a gift for the other person. One week later we both presented the class with the narrative projects we had created. I (being a 3D designer) made a brooch for her, she (being a graphic designer) made a font for me. We both gave each other these items as gifts and as a token of our new friendship.
In our talk, she said she always wore a brooch. The brooch I made her was made of copper and the gemstones were bits of the most lively dried fruit I could find. Inside was a little pocket of comfort, filled with things which during our conversation she mentioned she likes, sometimes craved, sometimes secretly enjoyed. This included - blue skies, fresh fruit, clean sheets, Bruce Springstein, occasional gossip magazines and the author Paul Auster.
The font she made me, in a similar approach, was filled with all the things I liked, mostly food related. She had photographed and created vectors of all the food items I said I love, and carefully make each of these a character in the SNOOK font.
Six years after we met and exchanged narrative gifts, we are still friends.
for Jona
On my first day of the MA Creative Practice for Narrative Environments course at the University of the Arts London, our first assignment was that we were sent off in pairs to get to know our partner and create a narrative environment about him / her. Jona Piehl was my partner and very shortly after we set about asking each other questions I knew we'd be friends. Without knowing at all what the other was doing, each of us set about the assigned task intending to create a gift for the other person. One week later we both presented the class with the narrative projects we had created. I (being a 3D designer) made a brooch for her, she (being a graphic designer) made a font for me. We both gave each other these items as gifts and as a token of our new friendship.
In our talk, she said she always wore a brooch. The brooch I made her was made of copper and the gemstones were bits of the most lively dried fruit I could find. Inside was a little pocket of comfort, filled with things which during our conversation she mentioned she likes, sometimes craved, sometimes secretly enjoyed. This included - blue skies, fresh fruit, clean sheets, Bruce Springstein, occasional gossip magazines and the author Paul Auster.
The font she made me, in a similar approach, was filled with all the things I liked, mostly food related. She had photographed and created vectors of all the food items I said I love, and carefully make each of these a character in the SNOOK font.
Six years after we met and exchanged narrative gifts, we are still friends.