ethan feuer // new work
hey all! i did three posters while in providence–and i realize i’m going in reverse chronological order here–but here’s the last one. it was conceived entirely from type and made as a promotional poster for a concert by four tet. i mean, i wish four tet were giving a concert somewhere near me. but till then…
for you design+grafiks g33ks out there like me.
L-to-R, T-to-B: photoshop, illustrator, indesign, premiere, bridge, aftereffects, flash, dreamweaver, soundbooth
hey thur tru believers!
i do believe my colloquialisms are growing more and more out of control every day. on the bright side, perhaps i will someday become something like walt kelly (not to be confused with walt disney…more on that later). so basically, these past few weeks have been crazy with a capital C. first, i made a stab at the KPF traveling fellowship, which is this ultra-competitive travel grant open only to architecture students from a select list of about 20 schools countrywide (of which rice is one). it’s hard to find data on entrants, winners, or even the contest itself (probably the latter is not made publicly available because the competitions itself is not publicly available, so to speak). one of my coworkers pithily observed that “the crazier the better” as far as portfolio for grants go. if that’s true, perhaps i will be a shoo-in. ha ha. not. but fingers crossed. either way, i have to pass muster at rice’s selection committee first (rice is only allowed, or only chooses, to put forth two applicants from within its own ranks). i’m going up against a lot of super-talented, super-amazing, accomplished people so i don’t doubt that i will probably not even be put forward by my school as an applicant.
my travel proposal centered on the relationship between technology and design methods/thought. i’m expressed interest in visiting religious, civic, and industrial sites (primarily modern / post-modern) and representing or mapping them in ways other than those they were conceived (i.e. topological unfolding, reflectivity mapping, or fourier “waterfall” maps of sound inside them). i was hoping to work in some information about cultural identity and the attitudes people have towards their design (cultures). the idea is that some kind of narrative would emerge from this. anyway, i put together a kind of cool portfolio centering around these ideas and sent it off to texas. checkit!
i had meant to get to this sooner, but i really did disappear completely for a week (radiohead told me how). in any case, back in action now, more or less none the less for wear. this past charrette was pretty hard, probably one of the most intense i’ve been through (though this isn’t saying that much, i suppose). at least there was this bizarre moment one of the nights when someone put an entire box of sweettarts outside woodshop for general consumption. when i say an entire box, i mean something along the lines of several hundred rolls. i haven’t the faintest idea where they came from, but there are a lot of desks / floors littered with neon blue & pink wrappers around the ol’ studio now.
aside from that, it’s been a bit of an exciting week for seniors hereabouts, as the decisions about who goes where have been made with regard to preceptorships. some humans go to italy, others to new haven. somehow this seems a bit unequal to me, but all’s well that ends at yale. actually, having graduated some of the nations most disparagingly low-yielding political minds, i’m not sure if i should be all doe(y?)-eyed at yale. but it is an excellent name. just say it! “yale!” it’s what a texan does in distress.
i’m going home soon, so there is much carrying of tables to be done. i hope to ease the psychological burden upon those of you who will be seeing me soon by enrapturing your eyeballs with two more renderings i completed for dawn’s studio. one is of the automotive classroom space in the vocational high school, the other (the one with the fleet of tables in attack formation) is the cafeteria. enjoy!
