While completing a two week internship at Fabrica, I was asked to design one of their infamous Wanted Creativity posters, which act as a call out for submissions.

Completely stuck for inspiration, and watching Jim Jarmuch’s Coffee & Cigarettes, I came across a fantastically appropriate quote:

“I like to drink a lot of coffee before I go to sleep so I can dream fast.”

So I brewed a bathtub’s worth of instant coffee and had Andrea photograph me bathing in it. Not sure if I dreamt up any creative ideas that night, but I smelt amazing!

This poster embodies the ethos of my honours project work throughout the 2009. It contains an overview of my theoretical findings as well as adhering to the visual style of my work. 

Each poster was silk screened in an edition of 150, and folded down to fit an A5 collection for the group show. 

The image used was a prominent one in the development of my research, chosen because it was sent to me as an autonomous attachment to a completely unrelated email from my boss. This use of imagery was the basis for my project and this cat, along with the internet lingo became the visual style of my installation.

As the poster discussed the ways in which language has devolved for use on the internet and instant messaging, I chose to set emphasised segments in all caps. This captured what I felt to be the ridiculousness of internet lingo.