Gillian Wearing

Gillian Wearing

Key Image:

Compound Words:

Simply-bold

Subtly-dramatic

Naturally-vibrant

Seriously-strong

Statically-stimulating

Honestly-meaningful

Quotes:

"Wearing creates a powerful discrepancy between the public and the private"
"I am interested in collaboration, in people having a voice, there are so many different things to be said and learned by listening to as many people as possible"
"Wearing is one of the most interesting British artists of her generation"

Title Ideas:

Publicizing Privacy
Give Them A Mask, and They Will Tell The Truth
People Revealed One Mask at a Time
Masks of Honesty (or Comfort)
Exposing Society
Photography Can Be Strikingly Honest

Links:

http://www.maureenpaley.com/artists/gillian-wearing/biography
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/picture-desk-gillian-wearing
http://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/artists/gillian-wearing/series-photography-and-video

Gillian Wearing was born in Birmingham. She attended Dartmouth High School in Great Barr, Birmingham. She went to study art at the Chelsea College of Art. Wearing made a film called Drunk in 2000, which is about 4 drunk men staggering around a studio. Wearing lives and works in London. She married British artist Michael Landy in 2010.

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Typeface Research

Archer - Designed in 2001

- Serif (Slab Serif)

- Designers are Tobias Frere-Jones and Jonathan Hoefler

• They created other typefaces such as Surveyor, MSL Gothic, Nobel, Gotham, Interstate

- Family members include bold, book, light, medium, italic, and semibold.

Old style is the idea of adhering to manuscript models in type design.

Slab Serif is a type of serif typeface characterized by thick, block-like serifs. 

A sans serif (without serif) is one that does not have the small projecting features called "serifs" at the end of strokes.

The stroke weight is used to describe the thickness of a line that helps make up a character in a font.

Small capitals are designed to match the x-height of lowercase letters.
An imaginary line drawn from top to bottom of a glyph bisecting the upper and lower strokes is the axis
A typeface that exhibits a change in the thickness of curved strokes, the inclination of the axis of the lowercase o is used to measure the angle of stress
Lining figures are a modern style of numerals where all figures are of the same height and rest on the baseline. Non lining figures do the opposite.
A ligature occurs where two or more graphemes or letters are joined as a single glyph.

Type Measurement:
Type is measured by points from baseline to baseline when set without any extra space being added between the lines. A type with a different visual size both take up the same depth from line to line.

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