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Allison Wilton’s portfolio


Retrospective08: Senior BFA Catalog Cohen Center for the Arts: Ecommerce Web Layouts Cast Glass Typography .dotcom monoprints 2
 
:) + :(: Artist book about the use of emoticons
 

:) + :(: Artist book about the use of emoticons  

Client: part of senior thesis project | Submitted: June 02, 2008 | Updated: September 29, 2008
Discipline: Book Design | Tags: artist book, book design, internet, typography

:) + :( | sewn signatures, hardcover bound with exposed spines

The reduction of emotions to punctuation almost seems silly, but then again I seem too make smiley faces out of a colon and a parenthesis all the time when chatting online without a second thought. In this digital age, human contact and emotions are reduced to emails and emoticons. With :) + :(, I chose to create compositions throughout the spreads by using emoticons and punctuation. Each book also contains the emotions contained within the emoticons spelled out in single words on blank pages.


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