final occupy kc logo build

the big reveal of my 5 second logobuild.



the conceptual thinking behind it works a little like this: the many, working together to build a unified collective (e pluribus unum, america!) which then has the capacity to broadcast its motives, hopes, dreams, ideas, and solutions to the rest of the world. idealistically, once the new collective, formed out of necessity, has achieved its goals, it may dissipate. it remains, however, invisible but everywhere, willing to rejoin together again at the first sign of renewed distress. in this way, even the way the clip is loopable is conceptually significant.

things i have learned from this project include:

how to batch import images into illustrator! (aka: how to use scripts)

further after-effectation

how to explain, cleanly and cooperatively, what politics in question are all about so as to avoid conflict
how to tread lightly around people who disagree with said politics even within context of a design project

as i understand it, we will be sharing these with the people to whom they directly relate. this means my file can be provided to kc occupiers to tag on the end of footage, if they wish! although there are a good lot of us around here doing it, so it might get a little confusing trying to get them to use one choice.

enjoy! stand up in solidarity!

occupy kc logobuild process!

i knew from my early concept that the i wanted to use the idea of a multitude of individuals working together to become one thing, which is was very significant to a movement such as occupy. my first instinct was to collect handwriting from all of the people around me. i knew i needed to start something, so i started there, even though i wasn't confident in how i was going to use it. luckily this worked better than i had imagined! later, i conducted a similar "hey, would you mind please donating a moment" survey when i went through studio asking for voices.

[nb: i do think it is important that you know that i did, in fact, really consider going over to occupykc and collecting writing and voices from them, but i had a real problem with the presumptuous implications of those actions, as though i, personally, was deigning to do them a favor but needed them to help me out first. probably this is a stupid and unfounded belief and i should've done it, but i couldn't shake that feeling of being an outsider, and consequently, stuck to my largely apathetic classmates.]

a fun fact: i learned how to use a script to place whole folders worth of files into illustrator at once because i did not want to place each of those we-s independently, on account of there are ~100 total. here's a stack of them all at once, placed by my script. i don't think i'd ever seen so many highlight colors!