Not on the table, kids.

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Starting from the word 'squishy', I thought about how children play with very tactile things. If something has a tactile nature it will appeal to children to play with it and 'squish' it. From this I explored how sponges are very squeezable and photographed them in different ways. Alongside this thought process I was also sketching water in letter forms and loved how it appears to have a squishy texture in itself because it is fluid. Combining these ideas, I experimented with cutting sponges into letter forms, applying paint, squishing them and creating a typeface based on the marks they leave behind on a laminate table surface.

14 Comments

crazy good! well done Tess!
Comment by yeepoon 30th october 2013
Wow! Excellent work and idea. :)
Comment by sarreyn 30th october 2013
pretty amazing.
Comment by funk_king 30th october 2013
Great use of texture. 10/10
Comment by p2pnut 31st october 2013
Awesome!
Comment by cablecomputer 31st october 2013
Awh I really like it Tess, looks really nice, great representation of your theme and idea.
Comment by nathanmwood 31st october 2013
Awh I really like it Tess, looks really nice, great representation of your theme and idea.
Comment by nathanmwood 31st october 2013
very cool texture!
Comment by Michel Troy ~UrbanPixel~ (Upixel) 1st november 2013
AMAZING JOB!
Comment by harriet040394 1st november 2013
GOSH THIS LOOKS SO GOOD WELL DONE YOU
Comment by LottieSD 3rd november 2013
NIce work Tess, looks awesome!
Comment by jakegoodall 4th november 2013
So good!
Comment by Will Bindley (willbindley ) 4th november 2013
Love it!!!
Comment by e.gannon94 4th november 2013
Thank you all for these very kind comments!
Comment by tesssieling 12th november 2013

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