yinyin

I wanted to show my room with typography that is behind my room. At first I thought about color code and than I developed it to thinking about codes overall, in this case im more familiar with html and css. I wanted to apply this in a book, why book? so every page could represent every wall of my room.

All this coding felt a bit boring and not personal so I experiment with a new idea...

I have never felt this kind of feeling of my room as I do now,
I sleep ,wake up , walk out from my room, spedning my life outside the room, go back for sleep. My mom says "maybe this painting will be nice in your room", I couldn't care less..
After reading about signifiers in theory and with Mark I realised that I only see it like that, it is what it is. So therefore the coding felt like a perfect connection to my feelings about my room and that this was a typographical project.

I started to doubt my idea of creating a book, I wanted to be more personal by using a moving box, because that is a feeling I have of my room as well, just having my clothes that Im moving around with from city to city and with no idea of when I will be back in Rotterdam. After feedback I realised that this was another kind of idea that had nothing to do with the coding.So I changed my mind and went back to my first thought….

First question for myself:

How can I describe my room in a more abstract way than to literally explain it.

The folder shape is actually the shape of my room, the smaller shape is the wardrobe that I'm coding in the map.

I tried some layouts and realised that I wanted to have a happening in the text because of the very same looking code so I designed it as a html coding site (it can be a very straight design sometimes not as as you can see in my collages/research)

Instead of making something personal of a room that I don't consider as a personal room (just a random guest room in our country house that i normally don't spend time in), I made something very impersonal, just code that doesn't say that much.I wanted it to have the same feeling of a real code, you just see code and not the design, it is in this way I see my room, it just is. Every coded page represent one wall/floor of my room.

The typographical project also need to have a thought through thought with which typography I want to use. I tried several typefaces and was inspired by real coding text from differens sites (collage above). In the end I realised that I did not want something that looked too much like "computer/digital" style, I liked the idea of using a typeface with serifs as a contrast to the very computer connected style in a analogue coding book.

The rules for coding html and css are the same in my analogue perspective as real coding.

-I learned that simple deisgn is not bad design, I tend to overthink and making it much more complicated than I need to.

-How details can make a big difference especially when it comes to typography, for example wanting a digital or a analogue feeling.