Alive: A Journey from Nothing to Something & Back is an exploration of design for transcendence. With the simple and eternal circle at its core, this project is a body of work inspired by a central idea that Truth cannot be learned—it must be experienced. The project is an attempt to raise questions rather than find answers: Why is there Something rather than Nothing? How can Ultimate Reality be depicted? How can a typeface be brought to life? What is a pilgrimage in the 21st century? And if all these are answered and we transcend, do we dissolve back into nothingness?
Alive: A Journey from Nothing to Something & Back
Dev Valladares
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Audio-Reactive Machine-Learning-Generated Typography essentially varying along a 512-dimensional axis.
What is the essence of a typeface? Can a letterform transcend its intellectual bounds? A metaphorical Awakening of Type: when something designed to be read begins dancing instead.
Music by the @northamericans
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Audio-Reactive Machine-Learning-Generated Typography essentially varying along a 512-dimensional axis.
What is the essence of a typeface? Can a letterform transcend its intellectual bounds? A metaphorical Awakening of Type: when something designed to be read begins dancing instead.
Music by the @thedoodlemafia
Audio-Reactive Machine-Learning-Generated Typography essentially varying along a 512-dimensional axis.
What is the essence of a typeface? Can a letterform transcend its intellectual bounds? A metaphorical Awakening of Type: when something designed to be read begins dancing instead.
Music by the @chiheihatakeyama
Mandala #02
What is it about the form of the circular mandala that we find so Entrancing?
Why does it appear across religions all over the world through millennia? At what point does a circle transition from a simple graphic symbol to a universal depiction of Something More?
Mandala #17
What is it about the form of the circular mandala that we find so Entrancing?
Why does it appear across religions all over the world through millennia? At what point does a circle transition from a simple graphic symbol to a universal depiction of Something More?
Mandala #104
What is it about the form of the circular mandala that we find so Entrancing?
Why does it appear across religions all over the world through millennia? At what point does a circle transition from a simple graphic symbol to a universal depiction of Something More?
Mandala #228
What is it about the form of the circular mandala that we find so Entrancing?
Why does it appear across religions all over the world through millennia? At what point does a circle transition from a simple graphic symbol to a universal depiction of Something More?
Can design be used to enhance meaning in people's lives? Is the digital world a functional platform for a virtual sacred space? In the 21st century, what does Embarking on a pilgrimage look like?
The realm of Chaos. Things move towards order as one moves inwards
In-between order and chaos
The journey before reaching the temple on top of the mountain