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Doves Type Film:Secrets of the Thames exhibition
The Doves Type was famously thrown into the Thames in 1913 by its creator, T. J. Cobden-Sanderson. Lead fragments of the typeface continue to wash up on the foreshore to this day.
To bring this story to life, we reimagined extracts from Cobden-Sanderson’s journals as animated type sequences, evoking the dramatic loss of his typefaces to the depths of the Thames.
The looping animation is displayed on a screen that protrudes from the foreshore — as if washed up by the tide. The animation is offset so the content always appears upright, even though the screen itself is set at an angle.
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Animation Alex Amelines
FabricationSolved
CuratorKate Sumnall