Controlled Chaos

2017

This research focuses on using the element of chance to determine the outcome of a composition. I was invited to share the exploration at the Society of Typographic Arts (STA) 2017 Design Inspiration Weekend — Jan, 2017 in Itasca, IL.

The thoughtful and justifiable decisions that designers normally make when creating work for clients were replaced with random and arbitrary choices made by a random number generator or roll of the dice.

“The more art is controlled, limited, worked over, the more it is free.”

—Igor Stravinsky

1939–1940 Harvard Lecture
“Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”