Week 5: Visual references

The Empathy Museum

I took The Empathy Museum as a reference, as it is a "museum" where visitors can literally put someone else's shoes on, and walk a mile in those shoes while they listen to the story/life of the owner of those shoes thanks to headphones. As my project is about encouraging dialogue between society and homeless people, and getting society to be closer to homeless people, I think this is a good example of how to do so.

Visual Editions

I really liked this book made by Visual Editions called "Tree of codes", where big part of the text has been removed, leaving blanks all over the pages. The amazing thing is that we can still manage to read the book and the sentences make sense. I compare this example to how I've taken strokes out of the letterforms in my typography tests and how visually showing that something is missing could make the viewer think about that thing, see how necessary it can be.