VIVIENNE TRAN
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Vivienne is currently an undergraduate design student at USC. Her work is often inspired by the so-called mundane, everyday life and passing presences of people around her. She experiments with a multitude of mediums and likes to explore the different forms her works may take. She currently works as the Art & Design Director at the Daily Trojan.
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Type Specimen FT88
Type Specimen project done in DES 332A course at USC for the fall 2024 semester. For this project, I chose to examine the pixel font family FT88. The font emerged in the late 1900s and was created by Ange Degheest for France Telecom in order to keep up with trends and improve its interface. I connect this font with the birth of digitalization and the Internet and related it to how our era is highly surrounded by electronics, machines, and devices. In the present, we clearly depend on devices and in order to express this, I used the same image of a natural scene of a beach and continued to increase the threshold amount each time. On the first page, only an outline of the sun can be seen until slowly but surely, the ocean and sun are hardly recognizable and all there is left are puddles of pixels. To strengthen this concept, I added excerpts from Charles Yu’s short story, Troubleshooting, that describe the mind as a device.
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