Periodic Table of Elements: A Collaborative Installation
Posted by David Mazure | Filed under Digital, Installations
I would like to introduce you to a project that has been in the works for quite some time. Last year I proposed over 14 different ideas for artwork installations in the new Hoeffner Science and Technology Center to the administration at East Stroudsburg University. The first of these installations is based upon the Periodic Table of Elements (see below for details). It has been a long process of approvals and revisions but it looks like this first installation (hopefully of many) is going to move forward rapidly — with hopes of it being completed by the end of the spring semester.
Normally, each semester, in my Communication Graphics class I have my students work on an introductory typography project called the Letterform/Counterform Project. This project’s goal is to take two different letterforms and combine them in such a way as to accentuate/highlight certain interesting and/or aesthetically pleasing elements of these letterforms while also considering the overall composition in a rectangular format. This semester my Communication Graphics students will be doing this project, but instead of choosing arbitrary letterforms, they will each be given 5 or 6 of the elements on the periodic table of elements to use. When completed, they will be printed, and displayed in frames in the hallway of the 2nd floor of the Hoeffner Science and Technology Center, directly opposite of the Chemistry Analytics labs. The frames will be arranged in the same order and configuration as the periodic table of elements, as pictured below. This is the first step in (hopefully) a few more collaborations between the science and art departments.
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