:: SARA FANELLI

In my last tutorial Fred recommended I look at illustrator Sara Fanelli and her "Timeline" work to inform my knowledge of contemporary practice, especially for the "10 Things you should know..." brief. But it turns out this is some research related to both my "10 Things.." brief and my new "Type Factory" brief - designing my own exhibition space.

The little book is what I'm looking at in response to my book brief...looking at interesting formats. This one is beautiful!
Being this size makes it so much more personal, something that I'd love to own, just for the shape and function!
I now no longer just want to make a book, your everyday boring hard back book (although, you can't beat the design of a book!), I want to look at other ways of putting this together.




Then this work also links with the work I'm producing for my third brief, the design identity and the promotional material for a type exhibition. I'm not aiming to produce all the wall murals, but it's just interesting to see the possibilities. But the book (above) is something I could also incorporate into the development of the promotional material of this new brief.

"Sara Fanelli's timeline runs along the concourse walls of level 3 and 5 at Tate Modern, providing a glance at the highlights of twentieth-century art. Reproduced on card, you can now own this road map to the major movements and important artists of the last 100 years." - Tate online shop






"Fanelli’s gallery entrance designs consist of keywords in capitals – authenticity, colour field, anxiety, improvisation, sublime – surrounded by the names of artists found in the gallery: Rouault, Bacon, Dubuffet, Rothko, Asger Jorn, Tacita Dean (these examples are from Material Gestures). The white vinyl letters are applied directly to the dark grey wall (a few are already missing). The names look like signatures, while the concepts are given different graphic emphasis, presumably for the sake of variety, rather than to convey any particular idea. In ‘Existentialism’, Fanelli intersperses small caps with long, spider-like letters; she renders ‘Consciousness’, the smallest keyword in its group, in caps of even height, again for no obvious reason." - Eye Magazine