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This typeface was created using a mixture of Adobe Illustrator and Blender 3.0, applications that I learned to use over the winter break. Navigating around these sophisticated design applications was no joke, but I found it enjoyable learning the basics of design, illustration, and animation while working on this project. Its uses may vary from its functionality as an animated interface element, introduction or title sequence for videos, standalone piece, and more.'
About the project
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"My typeface celebrates the retrofuturistic and cyberpunk designs of esteemed illustrator Hajime Sorayama. The sharp, bold curvature and glistening of the chromatic coat that each letter reflects are inspired by Sorayama’s portrayals of gynoids. "
Allison Choi
SPECTRUM CHROME TYPEFACE
How are you staying busy this winter break?
How are you staying busy this winter break?
The Inspiration
Family Reunion
Naomi Desai
"Over winter break, I spent a lot of time indoors with family. One game we played very often is called Keezbord, a Dutch board game. I decided to illustrate the cards in Keezbord as a reminder of the memories and laughs I shared with my family while playing the game."
The Early Must Wait
Hollie Park
i walk too fast for someone who plans for accidents
and for people who really don’t care if i’m late
i just like being places early
and being the one to wait
being on time is a choice
being late is an accident
being early may be a waste of time
but waiting makes me feel secure,
as if i will never be the one in the wrong
because i have been here all along
and you, you have chosen the accident
there is solace in waiting
this is something i hope you learn someday
everyone is waiting in silence
we tell ourselves we are not
insist we live in the present
the future is unknown, after all
but when the future becomes the present
and we have spent all our past in the wait
we know nothing else
From the Writer
"My film studies professor had us read “How to be Late and How to be on Time” at the beginning of the semester. It insisted that one must plan for the unexpected, and to be on time, one had to be prepared. No excuses. And I realized, I could have co-authored this hustle culture article. Maybe my writing would have been more patient, though. I’m usually always early. If it takes 10 minutes to get somewhere, I leave the apartment 20 minutes beforehand. And I’ll get there in 10 minutes, always, wait 10 minutes for my person to be on time, and another 10 or so minutes for them to be late. It’s not about being punctual, because life happens. It’s thinking about someone who’s waiting for you. If we both got there 10 minutes early, we’d have so much more time together."
As 2022 crept in on us,
we all faced the same unsettling truth:
this is our second time entering the new year
in the middle of a relentless pandemic, the world is increasingly burning up, society seems to be moving back on its axis, and life continues to feel bleak. And yet, there is comfort in the universality of the annual New Year’s Resolutions list we all still make to mark off a fresh start to a brand new year. Making my list, I feel like a kid jotting down her goals in her diary, determined to tell the cutest guy in her fifth grade class how she feels about him. But as I continue to depart my adolescent years, the more I think about my aging parents and all the resolutions they had never checked off. Thus, instead of my regular reminders to get all As and save more money, I wrote my list this year in the form of a brief poem, written in the voice of my mother with all
her annoying, nagging remarks that
I can’t imagine not hearing
one day.