Post-it — Moon

The moon through a window.
This is but one example of how David Horvitz used lines of text in his book “Nostalgia” to translate with words the images he had captured with his phone. It’s a new way of backing data up. In this exercise, we tried to reverse the process, visually retranslating the message through drawings on post-it.

After choosing a phrase, we were asked to draw five variations that could represent it, which in my case were: quite literally the image of the moon seen from inside a room’s window, the light of the moon shining through a window, the mooncakes through a shop window, the moonfish through the glass of an aquarium, and finally the Tarot card of the Moon, where the card itself acted as a window to the illustration.

For the last one, I then recreated the design in Illustrator and then explored the world of textures, both digital- and hand-made, discovering the different weights and meanings each one had.