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Post-feminism and the typophotography

Around 2000's I created the first layouts for post-feminist typophotographic work Feminist , some years later referred by the American singer Beyoncé on one of her stage performances. Partly inspired by the musings of Camille Paglia on feminism and showbusiness, the title of a issue of Bust magazine ( The F word ) and the consolidation of a gender equal Constitution Letter from the late 80's in the biggest country of Latin America, pointing a field migration of feminism from politics, with the consolidation of rights legally recognized, to influence, with the role of artists-performers influencers leading the behaviourial revolution. The original artwork consisted of a scale mockup of a stage, with markee letters in the center forming the word "feminist" in capital letters, representing the female performer. This was not my experiment with the form of designer art, focused on typography, I named typophotography or typographic photography ; I

Some oldies

Over ten years ago, I started Play With Your Type as a blog, later mirroed by a Tumblr , as an exercize of commitment, consistency and idea generation. The self-imposed challenge: Every Wednesday, after work, I'd take 5 to 10 minutes between idea generation and quick layout execution on computer (I usually do a pencil sketch first, but for this challenge I have decided to skip it), involving a play with words and type. Some of the posts are selected bellow. As I've decided to move to Berlin, besides time restraints and priorities issues, I also consired that the computer layouts could be mistaken for a finished piece and hurt my international job seeking. I didn't want it to be the first works a potential employer would see when browsing my name, so I stopped the challenge, thus removing the blog due to search indexing and keep ing the more obscure Tumblr, which went on from 2013 to 2015.

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