For this project block I chose the brief 'And the Winner Is' from the ISTD selection which required me to celebrate the Nobel Prize, its history importance and laureates. As the ISTD awards are very much type-based my response need to represent the Nobel Prize through typographic design.
My repsonse is a series of posters that represent the winners of the Nobel Prize within the field of Physics and Physiology or Medicine and the findings and research their work has helped us understand.
Each poster takes the acceptance speech from the winner(s) and uses the text to make the speech represent the winners achievements.
If realised, these posters would be created at a huge scale and hung between the columns of a museum as part of a celebration for the winners of the Nobel Prize.
Each poster takes the acceptance speech from the winner(s) and uses the text to make the speech represent the winners achievements.
If realised, these posters would be created at a huge scale and hung between the columns of a museum as part of a celebration for the winners of the Nobel Prize.
This poster is based off DNA Fingerprinting which is an advancement based off the work of Francis Crick, James Watson and Maurice Wilkins. For this poster I edited the thickness and weight of each paragraph, this creates the look of DNA Fingerprinting when seen from afar.
Roy J. Glauber, John L. Hall and Theodor W. Hänsch's research and work on 'optical coherence' and the optical frequency comb technique has led to advancements in technologies, including the development of the 'Optical Coherence Tomography' eye test which this poster is based on. The text from their acceptance speech is warped to form the results of one of these tests.
To represent the work of Subramanyan Chandrasekhar and William A. Fowler in the development in astrophysics and studies on the evolution of stars I warped the text from their acceptance speech and created a blackhole in the centre of the page which is designed to give the effect of the text being pulled into a blackhole.
My final poster represents the discoveries of Francois Englert and Peter Higgs by making their acceptance speech slowly clash and break up the further down the page you go. Within the centre of the mess of letters and words is a yellow asterisk which represents the big bang and the formation of the universe around it.
The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to John O'Keefe, May Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser for the discovery of grid cells. My poster for this award warps the text into the shape of the grid cells in the brain.
