prompt
Two words: CATS + DEATH.
One prompt: REMIX
Intent: Form-making, coming up with new visuals, EXPERIMENTATION
Everyone picked two words, months before the project. They were given to us as prompts for the REMIX assignment
Research+Idea
I started exploring. I researched everything from ancient Egyptian funerary rituals, feline life cycles, to my own body of work. Down the usual research rabbit hole, I stumbled upon images of feline skelatal structures, the whole body and skulls.
Skull of a cat
Process+execution
During this research, I noticed that if you squinted just right, you could trace the alphabet along the cracks of a skull.
At the time of this project, I had not experimented with font-building and typeface design. Given that one could go truly wacko with a form-making project, I decided to create a typeface from a cat skull. Traced english UPPERCASE alphabet
Full alphabet of the catskull typeface, in various 3D applications