KINETIC TYPOGRAPHY AND SCREEN-PRINT

• Main Author: Islam Widiaputri, Sidney
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/54337
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Typography's ability to create visual images and impressions is an interesting aspect that can be explored as works of art. In the field of literature, 'puisi mbeling' or concrete poetry can be a perfect example of processing letters as forms. As Sutardji Calzoum Bachri's credo of poetry, which states that the word is the meaning itself. Inspired by Sutardji's poetry creed, in this final project I will explore letters as abstract forms. How to change the standard letters to be more expressive and dynamic by inserting elements of gestures in them into a kinetic typography. To achieve this artistic intention, I will combine traditional printmaking with digital media. In the process, I will create a digitally moving image, which is then extracted into a series of frame-by-frame images which will be printed using the screen-print technique. The screen-print results will be processed using a scanner, and digitally reprocessed into animated video. In the intersection of these two media, there is a change in the nature of traditional printmaking art work which was originally static, when combined with digital media it turns into kinetic printmaking art. This work is also my attempt as an expansion of printmaking art forms into non-conventional works. However, it still contains printmaking art values.